WIPESTAR at the 8th Global Semiconductor Industry Expo 2026 — Booth S1-T46

This week we’re heading to Chongqing for the 8th Global Semiconductor Industry Expo, and honestly, it’s one of the shows we look forward to most. Not because of the scale—though 40,000 square meters and 1,000+ exhibitors is nothing to sneeze at—but because it pulls in the people who actually deal with contamination control on a daily basis. Process engineers, cleanroom managers, procurement leads who’ve been through the trial-and-error of finding the right consumables. Those are the conversations we learn from.

We’ll be at Booth S1-T46 from May 13–15 at the Chongqing International Expo Center, and we’re bringing our full semiconductor-grade product lineup. If you’re dealing with particle excursion headaches, ESD issues, or just trying to get your wipe spend under control without sacrificing cleanliness, come by. We’ve got samples, test data, and a team that actually understands what you’re up against.

Why Wipe Selection Keeps Coming Up in Semiconductor Fabs

I was at a facility in Suzhou last year—beautiful cleanroom, ISO Class 4, laminar flow everywhere. The kind of setup where you’d assume contamination control is dialed in. Then I watched a tech wipe down a wafer carrier with a general-purpose polyester wipe that was shedding fibers visible under a UV lamp. All that investment in filtration, and a $0.03 wipe was undermining it.

This isn’t an isolated case. We see it across semiconductor facilities more often than you’d think. The wipe is treated as an afterthought—something procurement sources on price, not performance. But in a fab running 7nm or 5nm process nodes, a single fiber on a wafer surface can destroy an entire batch. We’re talking millions of dollars in a single contamination event.

The requirements for semiconductor-grade cleanroom wipes are specific and non-negotiable:

• Ultra-low particle generation — continuous-filament construction, not short-cut fibers that shed under pressure
• ESD-safe options — static charge buildup during wiping can kill IC chips before anyone notices
• Chemical compatibility — IPA, acetone, photoresist solvents, NMP—the wipe can’t fall apart or leave residue when exposed to these
• Full traceability — COAs, particle count data, ROHS compliance. Your QA team needs this for audits, and so do your customers’ auditors

The good news is that getting this right doesn’t have to blow the budget. It’s about matching the wipe to the zone and the task—something we spend a lot of time helping clients figure out. Our cleanroom wiper selection guide goes deep on this if you want the technical breakdown.

What We’re Bringing to Booth S1-T46

Cleanroom Wiping Cloths for Wafer and Equipment Cleaning

For the most sensitive surfaces in the fab—wafer carriers, lithography stages, CMP platens—you need wipes that don’t compromise. Our ultrasoft surface preparation wipes (W3401) are continuous-filament polyester with ultrasonically sealed edges. That means no loose fibers, no edge fraying, and particle counts that hold up in ISO Class 4 and ISO Class 5 environments.

For the heavier stuff—etch chamber cleanup, deposition tool maintenance, general equipment wipe-down in the maintenance bay—our heavy-duty surface preparation wipes (W3501) give you the abrasion resistance and chemical toughness you need. These are the wipes that process engineers grab when they’ve got baked-on residue and don’t want to destroy a premium wipe on a rough cleaning job.

ESD-Safe Wipers for Packaging and Test

Electrostatic discharge is one of those problems that doesn’t announce itself. You don’t see it happen—you just find damaged die or failed components downstream. Our ESD-safe wipers have conductive fibers woven into the wipe structure, so static dissipates at the point of contact. If your team handles bare die, wire bonding, or anything that goes into an ESD-sensitive environment, these are worth looking at.

We’ll have demo units at the booth so you can see the anti-static performance for yourself, not just read about it on a spec sheet.

Universal Wiping Cloths for Fab-Wide Use

Here’s something we tell every cleanroom manager we work with: don’t use ISO Class 5 wipes in an ISO Class 8 corridor. It’s like using surgical gloves to change a tire—technically works, but you’re burning budget for no reason.

Our W2101 universal wiping cloth and W2201 synthetic blend are built for the less critical zones—packaging areas, gowning rooms, corridors, general bench cleaning. They’re strong, absorbent, and priced for the high-volume consumption those areas demand. Matching the wipe to the zone is one of the easiest cost optimizations in cleanroom management, and it’s one we help facilities with all the time.

Pre-Saturated Wipes for Optical and Precision Cleaning

When solvent consistency matters—lens cleaning, photomask maintenance, optical inspection equipment—pre-saturated wipes take the guesswork out. Every sheet has the same amount of cleaning agent. No oversaturation, no dry spots, no variability between technicians. Process engineers tell us this alone cuts rework rates on optical systems by a noticeable margin.

Our Manufacturing Setup: 100,000+ m² of Cleanroom Production

We’re not a trading company that sources wipes and puts our label on them. We manufacture in-house, from our facility in Shenzhen—over 100,000 square meters of production space with more than 1,200 specialized machines. Our cleanroom workshops run at ISO Class 4 through ISO Class 7, with full testing capabilities: APC, LPC, FTIR, NVR, and IC.

Why does this matter to you? Two reasons. First, quality control—every batch ships with full traceability documentation, COAs, and particle count data. No guessing where the material came from or how it was handled. Second, flexibility—we handle OEM and ODM orders at scale. Custom wipe sizes, specialty packaging, private-label branding, whatever you need. Stable lead times because we’re not depending on a third-party factory’s schedule.

If you’re sourcing for a new fab build or consolidating your cleanroom consumable supply chain, come see us at Booth S1-T46. We can walk you through the production setup and the test data behind every product we ship.

What Else Is at the Chongqing Expo

The expo covers the full semiconductor industry chain, which is why it’s worth the trip even beyond our booth:

• Wafer fabrication equipment — lithography, etching, deposition, CMP
• Advanced packaging — flip chip, wafer-level packaging, 2.5D/3D integration
• IC design and EDA — chip architecture, verification tools
• Materials and consumables — process gases, photoresists, sputtering targets, and the cleanroom consumables that keep fabs running (that’s us)
• Testing and inspection — AOI, electrical test, reliability analysis

For us, it’s a chance to sit down with the people who actually use our products—process engineers fighting particle excursions, facility managers trying to cut consumable costs without cutting corners, procurement teams looking for a supplier that won’t disappear after the first order. We learn as much from those conversations as visitors do, and that feedback is what drives our product development.

Who Should Swing by Our Booth

If any of these sound like your day-to-day, Booth S1-T46 is worth a stop:

• Cleanroom managers dealing with particle excursion events and looking to upgrade wipe quality
• Process engineers evaluating wipe compatibility with new chemicals or process changes
• Procurement teams that need a reliable, ISO-certified supplier with factory-direct pricing and stable lead times
• Quality and compliance leads who need documentation that holds up under audit—COAs, ROHS certs, full traceability
• Facility planners designing new cleanrooms and speccing out consumable requirements

Can’t Make Chongqing? Catch Us Elsewhere

If the timing doesn’t work, we’ve got a few more shows coming up. We’ll be at INDEX™ 2026 in Geneva — Booth 2150, which is the world’s largest nonwovens exhibition. We also just wrapped up a solid week at INTERPHEX 2026 in New York, where we had great conversations with pharmaceutical manufacturers about contamination control.

Of course, you don’t have to wait for a trade show. Browse our full product catalog online, grab the wiping cloths product catalog download, or just reach out to our team directly. We do samples and technical consultations year-round.

Booth Details and How to Set Up a Meeting

We’ll have product samples, technical data sheets, and live demos at the booth. If you want to sit down with a specific specialist—whether that’s someone from our cleanroom team, our ESD group, or our OEM/ODM division—drop us a line ahead of time at info@wipestar.com and we’ll make sure the right person is there.

See you in Chongqing.

— The WIPESTAR Team