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Jiva Leading the Charge Toward Sustainable Innovation
September 30, 2025 | Marcy LaRont, PCB007 Magazine

Environmental sustainability in business—product circularity—is a high priority these days. “Circularity,” the term meant to replace “recycling,” in its simplest definition, describes a full circle life for electronic products and all their elements. The result is re-use or a near-complete reintroduction of the base materials back into the supply chain, leaving very little left for waste. For what cannot be reused productively, the ultimate hope is to have better, less harmful means of disposal and/or materials that can seamlessly and harmlessly decompose and integrate back into the natural environment. That is where Jiva and Soluboard come in.
It’s Only Common Sense: Pricing PCBs? It’s All in Their Heads
September 29, 2025 | Dan Beaulieu, It's Only Common Sense

Let’s talk about pricing—not the math, the spreadsheets, or the cost-plus formula your finance guy loves—but the actual game: perception. If you’re trying to win jobs by being the lowest bidder, you’re not competing; you’re commoditizing yourself. Once you do that, good luck climbing back up the value ladder. You’re no longer a partner; you’re a line item on a spreadsheet.
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