The IPC Excellence in Education award was presented to Zenaida (“Zenny”) Valianu, IPC, at IPC APEX EXPO 2025, recognizing her significant contributions to workforce development and leadership.
In recognition of their leadership and significant contributions of time and talent to IPC and the electronics industry, four IPC volunteers were presented with the IPC President’s Award at IPC APEX EXPO in Anaheim, Calif., on March 18, 2025. Recipients were Xaver Feiner, Zollner Elektronik AG; Thomas Marktscheffel, ASMTPT GmbH; Barry Matties, IPC Publishing Group/I-Connect007; and Cathy Hanlin, Precision Manufacturing Company Inc.
IPC presented its highest corporate honors to two IPC member companies, Shennan Circuits Company (SCC) and Foxconn, during the IPC Annual Meeting/Awards Ceremony at IPC APEX EXPO 2025. The Peter Sarmanian Corporate Recognition Award was presented to SCC, and the Stan Plzak Corporate Recognition Award was presented to Foxconn.
At the 68th IPC Annual Meeting on March 19, held in conjunction with IPC APEX EXPO 2025, the IPC Board of Directors announced new officers and first-term members. Board officers serve a two-year term, board members serve a four-year term, and the student board member serves a one-year term.
IPC Taiwan Member Appreciation Dinner
AI and IPC standards empower future factories - building a new smart manufacturing ecosystem.
The best technical conference papers of IPC APEX EXPO 2025 have been selected. Voted on through a ballot process by members of the IPC APEX EXPO Technical Conference Program Committee (TPC), the international group of paper authors will be recognized during show opening remarks on Tuesday, March 18.
NEPCON NAGOYA is the exhibition held in the center of the manufacturing industry of Japan. Nagoya is a capital city of Aichi prefecture which has Japan's largest automotive-related manufacturing industry cluster. IPC Japan will have its booth and have Japan regional final of IPC hand soldering competition 2024.
This face-to-face opportunity intends for regional task group members in Japan such as 7-31BV-JP and D-33AA-JP. With the guests from IPC Global, we discuss and make proposals to the original task group.
This annual seminar is held mainly for IPC members, regional TG participants and its standards users in Japan with the collaboration of IPC Asia. In the morning of the day, we have guest speakers from IPC global such as TG chair and liaison to update on IPC standards and activities for them. Following this, in the afternoon, Japan regional task group meeting(s) will be held.