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Fall 2025 Issue of Community Magazine Now Available
October 20, 2025 | I-Connect007Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Now available! The Fall 2025 issue of Community Magazine delivers another stellar issue packed with member profiles, workforce development and sustainability wins, policy updates, factory data standards, personality features, news from around the world, and much more..
Hear from experts like Dr. Shawn DuBravac, Diana Radovan, Koh Young, Sanjay Huprikar, and Jeff Barth of JWB Manufacturing.
Learn about the people behind the progress, including Tom Marktscheffel, Steven Bowles, Christoph Solka, Happy Holden, John Perry, and more.
Some of our featured articles:
- “Building PCBs and Policy in Europe” with Group ACB. This member profile focuses on PCB fabricator Group ACB and its work on EU advocacy, HDI reliability, and why awareness in Brussels matters for copper/base material supply and PCB visibility.
- “Committed to Environmental Stewardship” by Brent Fischthal (Koh Young). Brent details the South Korean supplier’s sustainability efforts, from removing disposable coffee cups in break rooms to measurable ESG: RE100 planning, solar arrays, EV fleet conversions, AI-enabled yield improvements that cut scrap, and more.
- “Life is a Highway” by Steven Bowles. Lockheed Martin Fellow. Steven Bowles shares tales from the road with his wife and six children as they take learning and adventure to another level in all 48 contiguous U.S. states.
- “Cut to the chase: What September’s Fed shift now means for manufacturers” by Dr. Shawn DuBravac. A clear rate-playbook for CapEx, working capital, and refinancing explaining “higher-for-longer” and why the Fed’s longer-run neutral sits near 3%. Includes 10 practical moves for manufacturers.
We're celebrating members of the Global Electronics Association by connecting standards, policy, skills, sustainability, and finance so that you can build smarter, cleaner, and more resilient electronics.
Note: Community Magazine is produced by the Global Electronics Association and I-Connect007. This issue concludes its print/digital format as it transitions into a new, interactive format in 2026.
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