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Real Time with... productronica 2025: Navigating Changes in the EMEA Market—Insights from Ventec Experts
December 10, 2025 | Real Time with...productronicaEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
Ventec's Mark Goodwin and Pesh Patel explore the EMEA market's structural changes, including Panasonic's factory closure and its effects on laminators. They discuss the transition to low DK glass and the influence of the AI boom. Mark highlights the need for effective inventory management, while Pesh presents the glass-free revolution, showcasing new materials and resin technologies that improve performance and expand applications beyond traditional circuit boards.
For our full coverage of productronica 2025, visit the Real Time with... productronica event site, located here.
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Is China Plus One Still Happening in the PCB Industry?
04/28/2026 | Manfred Huschka, Manfred Huschka Management Consulting (Shenzhen) Ltd.For much of the past five years, China Plus One has been shorthand for supply-chain diversification: reducing dependency on mainland China by adding manufacturing capacity elsewhere in Asia. In the PCB industry, however, in early 2026, it is more nuanced. It looks less like a clean geographic shift and more like a layered, capital-intensive rebalancing of global capacity, one that still leaves China deeply embedded at the center.
It's Only Common Sense: See Your Marketing as a Discipline, Not a Department
04/27/2026 | Dan Beaulieu -- Column: It's Only Common SenseWhat does marketing mean to you? Is it a corner office with cool posters on the wall? Is it the person running your LinkedIn page or the trade show booth with the shiny graphics and the bowl of candy? Yes, marketing is those things, but it’s more than that. It’s a discipline, and if you treat it like a department, you’re already losing.
Roundtable: Advanced Materials
04/27/2026 | I-Connect007 Editorial TeamDriven largely by the need for advanced chip technology for super compute ability and AI applications, low Dk, low-loss resin systems, and heavy copper laminate are attracting significant attention and global resources. There are numerous unavoidable challenges in this market that will impact manufacturers and the supply chain, and they may be hitting critical mass sooner than OEMs and fabricators think. In this roundtable discussion, moderator Marcy LaRont speaks with topic experts: Mark Goodwin, John Fix, and Ed Kelley.
Infineon Further Extends Global Leadership in the Automotive Semiconductor Market
04/13/2026 | InfineonInfineon Technologies AG has once again proven to be the world’s leading automotive semiconductor supplier.
The Marketing Minute: Your Metrics Aren’t Telling the Full Story
04/08/2026 | Brittany Martin -- Column: The Marketing MinuteIn digital marketing, we tend to rely on the same set of metrics: Average read time. Bounce rate. Session data. For years, these metrics have been the default for gauging marketing success, so it makes sense to rely on them. But in today’s privacy-first B2B environment, they’re becoming less reliable and often misleading. You’re missing part of the picture.