Circularity Without Compromise
Wastewater and water reuse for AI-era semiconductor manufacturing.
From compliance function to fab continuity
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.
Who attends
Engineers from every facility discipline, and the manufacturers they serve.
Day 0 Workshop
Get hands-on before the technical program.
TechnologiesOperational & Sustainable Excellence Strand · Wed 16 Sep afternoon
12 Technologies for Energy & Water Efficiency
From AI-driven energy efficiency to membrane innovations, sustainability solutions are in high demand - but the market is loud and the buzzwords are everywhere. Identifying ready technologies takes time most fabs don't have.
With twelve companies, three-minute pitches, and four minutes of moderated Q&A each, this workshop is the most efficient way to benchmark the frontier before the main programme and decide what deserves a longer conversation.
Wastewater & Reuse Agenda
Selected by the independent Technical Advisory Committee - reuse, ZLD, PFAS, resource recovery, and system integration, grounded in real fab experience. The deepest wastewater program on any facility agenda.
Testimonials
Why UltraFacility
The deepest semiconductor water community of any technical conference.
- Curated by the people who run the fabs. Intel, GlobalFoundries, Samsung Austin Semiconductor and Micron shape the agenda around real facility challenges.
- 50+ non-commercial presentations, selected from 100+ abstracts by an independent committee. Data, not sales pitches.
- Wastewater, in context. Addressed in direct connection with UPW, process chemistry, and yield risk on the same agenda.
- Direct line to the specifiers. The one forum connecting specialised wastewater and reuse vendors with the engineers designing next-generation fab water systems.
Be in the room where fab water's hardest problems get solved
UltraFacility 2026 expands wastewater and reuse content across the whole conference - curated discussions on 16 September and core technical sessions on 17-18 September.
UltraFacility 2026 · 16-18 September · Phoenix, Arizona