Southeast Asia's semiconductor scene just got a reliability boost: two vertical wafer dryers, our flagship model built for precision, are now fully operational at a leading packaging facility in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. These aren't just "another piece of equipment"-they're already reshaping how the client runs their 8-inch wafer backend line, cutting down on downtime and upping the number of usable chips. Exactly the impact we aim for.
The client specializes in automotive and consumer chip packaging-spaces where a single particle or residue spot can sink an entire batch. Before partnering with us, their workflow was a bottleneck: separate cleaning and drying machines meant constant wafer handling, and inconsistent drying left particles that threw off photoresist coating. Their yield hovered at 92% for months, and their auto industry clients were growing restless. They tested three other dryers, but once they saw our vertical model's double chambers and all-in-one design? The decision was clear.
What makes the wafer dryer a game-changer? Let's start with the double independent chambers-upper and lower, each controllable on its own. That means they can run SPM acid cleaning drying in one and photoresist removal drying in the other, no cross-contamination, no waiting. Then there's the all-in-one design: cleans and dries in a single unit, so wafers never leave the controlled environment-huge for reducing damage and particle pickup. The maze nitrogen sealing keeps the cavity isolated tight, and the high-voltage electrostatic removal? Zaps static that would attract tiny debris, keeping surfaces neutral. On specs? It hits <0.3μm particles per wafer (under 30 grains), runs at 100-2500 RPM (they've been using 1200 for their 8-inch wafers), and the UPTIME is over 95%-so it rarely skips a beat.
Vertical Wafer Dryer
"We were skeptical a single machine could fix two of our biggest headaches-until we turned on the wafer dryer," the client's production director said during final acceptance. "In a week, yield jumped from 92% to 95.1%-that's thousands more good chips a day. The double chambers let us run two processes at once, so our line throughput's up 40%. And the fragmentation rate? Barely 1 in 10,000-way better than our old setup's 1 in 2,000. We're already budgeting for three more in Q1 2026 for our new 12-inch line-this dryer's become a cornerstone."
This delivery isn't just a sale-it's proof our Semiclean series fits Southeast Asia's booming semiconductor needs. We didn't stop at shipping machines, either: our Hanoi technical center, opened earlier this year, has local engineers on call 24/7. If they need a parameter tweak or quick maintenance, help's never far. And the wafer dryer checks all the region's boxes: fits KM-40N and A182-60MB cassettes (the most common here), runs on standard deionized water and nitrogen supplies, and its compact size (490mm wide, 1880mm tall) slots right into tight production floors. No costly reconfigurations, just instant value.
Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand-semiconductor plants across the region are scaling fast, and they need equipment that works as hard as they do. Our next move? Tweaking the Semiclean series to handle more temperature-sensitive wafers, like gallium arsenide, which is big in micro-sensors. At the end of the day, it's not about building "perfect" equipment-it's about building tools that solve the real, messy problems our clients face every shift.
