HIGHTEX 2026 Istanbul: WIPESTAR Booth 215B — Industrial Wiping Cloths & Cleanroom Consumables

June 9–13. Istanbul Congress Center. Booth 215B, Hall 1. That’s where you’ll find us at HIGHTEX 2026 — and if you’re in nonwovens, technical textiles, or anything related to industrial cleaning consumables, this is worth the trip.

We don’t say that about every show. HIGHTEX is different. It pulls in buyers, engineers, and procurement teams from Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia — markets where manufacturing is expanding fast and the conversation around quality consumables is getting more serious every year. We’ve been shipping to these regions for a long time. HIGHTEX is our chance to put faces to the names we’ve been working with over email and video calls.

Why We’re Going to HIGHTEX

We do Geneva. We do Shanghai. We do Frankfurt. All valuable shows. But HIGHTEX occupies a spot none of those quite cover — it’s the nonwovens gathering for the Eurasia corridor, and Istanbul is the perfect city for it. East meets west, literally.

A lot of our clients in Turkey, the Gulf states, and North Africa started as email relationships. Specs, samples, trial orders — all handled remotely. It works, but there’s a limit. You can’t feel the texture of a wipe through a PDF. You can’t watch how a quarter-folded sheet actually pops out of a dispenser box on a Zoom call. That’s what trade shows are for.

If you’ve been thinking about switching suppliers, testing a new material, or just figuring out whether you’re overpaying for the wrong consumable — come by Booth 215B. We’ll have products you can touch, test, and compare side by side. Browse our full product range ahead of time if you want to come prepared.

The People at Booth 215B

We’re bringing five people to Istanbul. These aren’t booth staff we hired for the week — they’re the same people who visit factories, troubleshoot contamination problems on-site, and have spent years helping facilities figure out why their current wipe isn’t working.

Ethan — Sales Director

Twenty years in wiping cloths and cleanroom consumables. Ethan runs our global sales and has seen just about every cleaning scenario imaginable — and a few nobody could’ve predicted. Complex requirement? Strategic supply partnership? He’s the one to find.

Vicky — Foreign Trade Sales Supervisor

Vicky handles our overseas operations day to day. If you’ve ordered from us before, she’s probably the reason everything arrived on time. At the show, she’s the person for lead times, logistics, and how the ordering process actually works.

Carolina — Product Specialist

Carolina knows our products at the material science level. She’s on factory floors regularly, talking to the people who actually use the wipes — not reading about it from an office. She works with our suppliers to improve raw materials from the source. Got a technical question about fiber structures or chemical compatibility? She’s your person.

Daisy — Sales Support

Daisy keeps the wheels turning — order follow-up, customer communication, making sure that once you place an order, the process back home doesn’t skip a beat. Her motto: “This is a good day to have a good day.” She means it.

Zac — Customer Service

Zac handles inquiries, orders, and after-sales support. He’s the kind of person who actually follows up — which shouldn’t be rare, but is. Product specs, pricing, after-sales questions — Zac will give you answers, not a business card and a vague promise.

What’s on the Table

We’ve been building out the product lineup for months. Here’s what you’ll be able to see and test at Booth 215B.

Industrial Wiping Cloths

The bread and butter. Our wiping cloths cover everything from basic bench wipe-downs to heavy-duty oil and grease cleanup. We’ll have the full X5, X6, and X7 series — each material, each format, each designed for a different kind of mess.

If you run CNC machines or work in automotive, ask to try the X6 series. Stone-pattern spunlace structure — it grabs oil and coolant instead of pushing it around. We’ve watched facilities cut consumption by 50–70% after switching from cotton rags. The math is in our TCO breakdown if you want the numbers.

Cleanroom Wipes, Swabs & PPE

Pharma, semiconductor, electronics — we’ll have pre-wetted wipes, cleanroom swabs, and sterile-grade products on display. All ISO-certified. Full traceability — COAs, particle counts, extractable data. If GMP or ISO cleanroom classification is your world, come take a look.

Surface Preparation

Surface prep before coating or painting is a completely different beast than wiping down a workbench. Oil residue, fingerprints, particles — any of these on a surface heading into a paint booth means defects. We’ll have heavy-duty prep wipes, ultrasoft options for delicate surfaces, and mesh adhesive removal wipes. Details in our automotive paint prep guide.

Spill Control & Custom Work

Our spill control range rounds out the display. Everything at the booth is available for OEM and ODM — your brand, your specs, your packaging. We handle it all in-house.

What We Wish More Buyers Understood

After years in this business, certain patterns keep showing up.

Per-sheet cost is a trap. A cheap wipe that takes four sheets to do what one good wipe does isn’t cheap. Add in the rework from fiber contamination and the disposal costs, and the “budget” option is usually the expensive one. We’ve seen it over and over — the facilities that focus on cost-per-completed-task instead of cost-per-box are the ones actually saving money.

Material matters more than you think. Meltblown polypropylene, spunlace polyester, wood pulp blends, cotton — they all behave differently. One material might be perfect for oil cleanup and terrible with acetone. Matching the wipe to the job is the single highest-impact change you can make. Our materials guide goes deep on this.

Dispensing format changes behavior. We’ve seen facilities drop waste 15–20% just by switching from a bin of loose rags to pop-up box dispensing. When you’re wearing oily gloves and there’s a pile of rags, you grab five. When there’s a pop-up box, you grab one. Simple as that.

A supplier who disappears after shipping isn’t a supplier. They’re a catalog. The real value is technical support — helping you pick the right product, troubleshooting when something’s off, adjusting specs when your process changes. That’s how we work, and it’s why our clients don’t leave.

The Factory, Not the Middleman

WIPESTAR manufactures its own products. Not a trading company. Not a reseller. Our facility in Shenzhen, China produces wiping cloths, cleanroom wipes, swabs, pre-wetted products, PPE, and spill control — from raw material to finished product. Over a decade doing this.

What Sets Us Apart

• Direct manufacturer — no middle layer, no markup, full quality control from start to finish.
• OEM & ODM — custom sizes, fold patterns, packaging, branding. All in-house.
• ISO-certified — strict quality controls on every product before it ships.
• ROHS compliant — meets EU hazardous substance standards. Matters if you export to Europe.
• Global shipping — North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East. Regular routes, reliable timelines.

Automotive, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, electronics, aerospace, food — we serve them all. Check our wiping cloths range, browse the full catalog, or just come to Booth 215B and see for yourself.

Come Find Us

Want to lock in a meeting time? Reach us through our contact page or email info@wipestar.com. We’ll have technical people on-site who can walk you through material selection, talk custom requirements, and figure out if your current wipe setup is actually the right one.

Can’t make it to Istanbul? Everything’s online — our full product catalog with detailed specs, and our team is available year-round. The conversation doesn’t need a trade show to start.

See you at Booth 215B.

WIPESTAR — TO MAKE THE WORLD CLEANER.