WASHINGTON, DC – The US China Economic & Security Review Commission recently released its 2025 Report to Congress. The report cites the fact that decades of offshoring printed circuit board ( PCB) manufacturing caused US capacity to plummet from 30 percent of the world supply in 2000 to only 4 percent today. Semiconductors, whether they are used for national defense, critical infrastructure or commercial systems, all must be mounted on a PCB.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Safari Circuits has acquired the former LaCroix Electronics manufacturing plant, preserving 116 jobs and restarting full electronics production under the new name Safari Grand Rapids.
Another Productronica has come and gone. What did we learn?
That the biggest trend – besides the ubiquitous white sneakers attendees wore – was size. (Glass-free substrates were a close second.) More on that in a moment.