Circularity Without Compromise
Wastewater and Water Reuse for AI-Era Semiconductor Manufacturing
The Mission
Semiconductor wastewater and water reuse systems are moving from peripheral compliance functions to core enablers of fab continuity.
AI-driven manufacturing growth, tightening discharge limits, and competition for water with data centres are forcing fabs toward near-total reuse and ZLD. At the same time, advanced nodes are far less tolerant of trace contaminants — creating a fundamental tension between circularity and yield risk.
- Municipal infrastructure can no longer guarantee capacity or consistency for giga-fabs
- ZLD and advanced reuse are near-mandatory undertakings, driving up cost and complexity
- Legacy wastewater systems were not designed for integration with UPW and process water loops
Wastewater and reuse is no longer a compliance exercise — it’s a fab continuity and yield risk problem.
This is one of my favorite events of the year! Good mix of people with the right balance of information & relationship building. It's a must attend if you're at the interface of semiconductor manufacturing and water.
Greg Newbloom
CEO
Membrion
10/10 I very much enjoyed this conference. The '12 Water Tech For Facility Performance' is the best presentation that I have ever sat through in decades of attending conferences.
Ron Howard
Facilities Engineer – Industrial Waste Systems
Intel
A really solid conference. Lots of great details on the new water challenges.
Luke Wilson
Project Manager
Carollo Engineers
It was a great experience getting to meet others in the industry and discuss wastewater challenges with them, as well as gain exposure to all the emerging technologies.
Karen Hildebrant
Facilities Chemical Engineer
Lam Research
Was jam packed with information, meetings, & roundtables. I would almost like an extra day added, just to fit the volume of presentations and information.
Kevin Abel
Facilities Operations Manager – UPW/Wastewater Systems
Micron
What You’ll See
Content focuses on real operating challenges across wastewater, reuse, and circular design — spanning technical presentations, end-user panels, and closed-door roundtables.
Examples of presentations and roundtables from 2025 include:
Standardizing metrics for water sustainability: New KPI’s in SEMI F98
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Pilot Testing a New Approach in Copper Recovery from FAB Waste Streams
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Advancing Water Sustainability through Tool-Facility Integration
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Who Attends
UltraFacility conference attendance is notable for two things: engineers and experts join from across all major facility disciplines, and semiconductor manufacturers represent a substantial portion of delegates – 10% of the total.
Join 850+ partners, clients, and competitors in Phoenix this September.
It was truly enlightening to me. Learnt a lot about the opportunities and challenges the Semicon industry is currently facing, what's waiting ahead of us.
Mohammad Qasim Shaikh
Technical Development Manager, Americas
Syensqo Specialty Polymers
Attending the technical conference was an enriching experience. One of the highlights was the showcase of innovative technology, allowing participants to explore cutting-edge advancements.
Cecilia Boon Chia Hui
Principal Water Engineer
Micron Technology
The best UltraFacility to date. The venue was excellent, great attendance and the papers were high quality. Good presence by the industry supply chain and great to see so many HVM Semiconductor.
Gary Van Schooneveld
President
CT Associates
Past attendance: Wastewater & Reuse
Past attendance: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Confirmed Speakers
Wastewater and water reuse experts are contributing across data-driven technical presentations, roundtables, workshops, and poster sessions.
Alan Knapp
Senior Director, Microelectronics Market
Xylem
Alan Knapp
Senior Director, Microelectronics Market
Xylem
Alan Knapp
Senior Director, Microelectronics Market
Xylem
Alan Knapp
Senior Director, Microelectronics Market
Xylem
Alan Knapp
Senior Director, Microelectronics Market
Xylem
Alan Knapp
Senior Director, Microelectronics Market
Xylem
Why UltraFacility
UltraFacility has the deepest community in semiconductor water management of any technical conference globally — the only forum where wastewater and reuse is addressed in direct connection with UPW, process chemistry, and yield risk on the same agenda.
- End user partners at Intel, GlobalFoundries, Samsung Austin Semiconductor, and Micron shape the agenda — real facility challenges, not vendor pitches
- 50+ non-commercial, data-driven presentations selected from 100+ abstracts by an independent co-moderating team
- 80+ semiconductor manufacturers on the delegate list — 10% of total attendance
- The only forum connecting specialised wastewater and reuse systems vendors directly with the engineers specifying next-generation fab infrastructure
Get Involved
UltraFacility 2026 will expand wastewater and reuse content across the entire conference, including curated discussions on 16 September and core technical sessions on 17 and 18 September, with emphasis on circularity frameworks that protect yield and uptime. If you have solutions in this area, the semiconductor manufacturing companies we work with want to hear them.
Opportunities include:
- Submit a technical abstract
Abstracts make up the technical presentations that are the core of the UltraFacility conference agenda. Present your solutions to 850+ experts this September – Submit an abstract today. - Join as a speaker in the Wastewater & Reuse-focused workshop
One of many interactive workshop across the 16th September pre-conference agenda, speaker positions offer the chance to share findings and expertise across devoted, wastewater & reuse-focused panels and roundtables – Get in touch about speaking positions here.
- Become a mission partner
Position your brand as an industry leader with a range of highly select opportunities to showcase expertise and engage with a targeted audience of facility professionals – Get in touch with our team today.
Speaking opportunities are curated in collaboration with our independent Technical Advisory Committee to ensure relevance, balance, and technical depth.
UltraFacility 2026 | 16-18 September | Phoenix, Arizona
