On 25 August, Brazil approved the final technical handbooks for its Sustainable Taxonomy (Portuguese acronym “TSB”).
The EU recently embedded circular economy principles into law. These new rules require industry to integrate reuse, recycling, and resource efficiency directly into design and end-of-life management for the first time.
Explore how automated micro-sectioning is reshaping PCB quality with faster, data-driven insights, improving reliability, defect analysis, and manufacturing efficiency.
Three reads worth your time this week. Global trade continues to shift, sustainability compliance is expanding beyond Europe, and manufacturing is reaching new frontiers – literally!
John Mitchell, IPC president and CEO, extends a special invitation to IPC APEX EXPO 2018.
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The European Commission has published a call for proposals under the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP), and for European electronics manufacturers the message is clear: this is real money for real capacity, and PCBs and IC substrates are explicitly in scope.
IPC’s advocacy efforts in Europe have grown significantly over the past few years.
AI-driven demand, especially for high-performance memory like HBM, is redirecting global supply, tightening availability of DRAM and NAND for traditional electronics manufacturers and driving costs higher.
MVC’s partnership with the Global Electronics Association is grounded in a clear objective: establish a common, standards-based definition of acceptability that is understood the same way by operators, inspectors, engineering, and quality teams. IPC Standards by Global Electronics Association, serve as a reference for workmanship expectations, while workforce training and IPC certification reinforce them through structured learning.
A recent webinar marked the official introduction of new industry guidance on Scope 3 Category 1 (Scope 3.1) emissions for the electronics sector, and it surfaced a set of practical realities that many companies are actively grappling with.