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PEACHTREE CITY, GA – SEPTEMBER 4, 2025 – The Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) today announced Jackson Schultz, head of engineering at Rainmaker Technology, will keynote PCB West this fall.
MALAYSIA – Scanfil has officially inaugurated the expansion and modernization of its Johor Bahru facility in Malaysia, building its electronics and complex box-build manufacturing capabilities. The EUR 4.3 million investment, first announced in January, expands production space by nearly 50% and enhances efficiency, quality and capacity.
BENGALURU – Syrma SGS Technology has signed a joint venture agreement with Italy-based Elemaster to form Syrma SGS Elemaster Private Limited, an India-focused platform serving high-reliability customers in railway, industrial and medical electronics. The JV’s initial ~20,000 sq. ft. facility in Bommasandra Industrial Area, Bengaluru will be configured for SMT, THT and box-build assembly lines.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – The exhibition floor space is sold out for PCB West, the largest exhibition and conference for printed circuit board design, fabrication and assembly in the Silicon Valley, Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) said today. It is the 11th time in 12 years all booths have been sold for the popular exhibition.
PCB WEST has, since its inception, been the leading conference for printed circuit board design and manufacturing.
One reason for that is the intense focus on what the industry needs in terms of training. Another is, besides the educational aspects, it can be fun, surprising and occasionally even provocative.
Years ago, the conference founder Pete Waddell introduced a session called EDA Face-to-Face, where CAD vendors took to the stage and addressed questions straight-on from their users. As you might imagine, the back-and-forth sometimes got a little heated. One particular memory includes a couple users, fed up with the lack of bidirectional electronic data transfer, roiling the crowd with their public callout of the major ECAD companies for not modifying their tools to permit data in.
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