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This weeks edition of Global Insight
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November 12, 2025
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Featured Content
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A new report from the Global Electronics Association, “Powering the U.S. Economy: The Economic Reach of Electronics Manufacturing,” finds that U.S. electronics manufacturing remains a powerful engine of economic growth and resilience.
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Industry News
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The Global Electronics Association recently joined a multi-stakeholder industry call to European policy makers for implementing an impactful omnibus package without delays.
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Global manufacturing data released in the last month suggests a patchwork recovery taking shape. While signs of stabilization are emerging in parts of Europe and Asia, momentum remains fragile in the United States.
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Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and India are emerging as key hubs, not just to meet the demand of an evolving and growing wire harness market, but also as centers for workforce development and manufacturing.
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One topic gaining significant momentum is liquid cooling. It’s rapidly becoming a critical focus for new standards development.
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The Global Electronics Association on November 4 signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL) to strengthen cooperation in standardization, validation, certification, and professional training across the electronics industry.
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Mexico is becoming a strategic partner for the United States to ensure a resilient, innovative and sovereign electronics supply chain in North America.
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In recent months, global discussions about corporate sustainability regulations have intensified. There’s a great deal of uncertainty about what lies ahead, but it’s equally true that may companies are already moving beyond compliance.
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At IMPACT 2025 in Taiwan, a key highlight was the growing influence of AI in electronics packaging design, assembly, and manufacturing.
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The Global Electronics Association announces its APEX EXPO keynote lineup, featuring industry titans exploring the frontiers of quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and the electrification of global industries.
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Across the world, electronics power progress, connecting people, enabling medical technologies, driving defense systems, and advancing smart, sustainable industries. Behind this innovation is a global community ensuring quality, reliability, and responsible growth.
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The European Chemicals Agency has released its first draft mapping of PFAS uses ahead of a broader consultation by the Socio-Economic Analysis Committee on a proposed PFAS restriction.
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Are you ready to capitalize on what is next and join our team of dedicated, skilled and enthusiastic employees? Here are current job openings:
• Vice President, U.S. Government Relations
• Manager, Design Standards and Innovation Programs
• Japan Representative
• Technical Programs Manager (Taiwan)
• Account Director, Aerospace & Defense
• Item Quality Assurance Coordinator
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For more than 50 years, IPC standards have been the processes, procedures and criteria that the global electronics industry implement daily to design and build electronics better with quality, reliability and consistency.
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My Top Three Reads
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This week's picks from Carrie Sessine
Chief Communications Officer, Global Communications |
Work – that’s what I’ve been contemplating the last few weeks for this Top 3 Reads. Over a lifetime, people spend about 90,000 hours working, equivalent to a little more than 15 years. The day I walked across the stage, grinning and waving that diploma, I had no idea what a terrific – and challenging – “ride” working would be… the places I’ve gone, people I’ve met, and oh, the many things I’ve learned.
For me though, the last decade+ has been completely transformative, think of the digital tools and applications, the speed of those, and for the last nearly three years, the introduction and uptake of AI. I’m thinking of how those 90,000 hours of work shift with increased use robotics, autonomous systems, and AI. Read on for more:
- ISF Voices 2025: Preparing for the Robotics Workforce: Offered via the Special Cooperative Studies Project, this essay explores how humanoid robots are reshaping the future of work worldwide.
- What Factories in America Look Like: A picture’s worth 10,000 words. The Economist shows just how much the factory floor has changed, the precision, the spotless machinery, and fewer people. From the article, “…pictures are a corrective for anyone whose image of manufacturing is tinted in sepia. The factories are well-lit and clean. With its bright white rooms full of busy technicians in head-to-toe gowns, a microchip fabrication plant resembles a medical facility or the futuristic lair of a James Bond villain.”
- Lifelong Learning: The Jan. 2025 report from the World Economic Forum highlighted the need for lifelong learning with the combination of technical and human-centric skills to keep up with the pace of change.
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Member Milestones
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Taiyo America Inc. (Carson City, Nev.) celebrated its 35th year as a Global Electronics Association member. See other companies celebrating membership anniversaries.
Member Anniversaries
New Members
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Events
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Circularity Policies for Electronics – Where are we now?
November 11, 2025
Advanced Electronic Packaging Consortium Workshop
November 12, 2025
IPC Hand Soldering Competition 2025 Regional Qualification - Germany
November 18-19, 2025
Global Electronics Association at productronica
November 18-21, 2025
Turning Supply Chain Security into Business Value
November 19. 2025
EFECS – the European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems
December 3-4, 2025
Pan-European Electronics Design Conference
January 21-22, 2026
WHMA's Annual Global Leadership Summit
January 27-29, 2026
APEX EXPO 2026
March 14-19, 2026
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