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Taiwanese PCB maker Unimicron plans to dissolve Unimicron Germany, its PCB plant in Geldern, to reduce operating costs. The group is injecting up to EUR 35 million into the company to complete existing orders, cover severance payments and pay for the liquidation.

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For the first time, the defence industry has become Aspocomp’s largest customer segment, accounting for 40% of the Finnish PCB manufacturer’s net sales in the third quarter. Orders received rose 169% to EUR 15.3 million.

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PCB materials supplier Ventec International Group has officially opened its new manufacturing facility in Thailand, its first production site in Southeast Asia. At the same time, the company is investing USD 50 million in expanding its operations in Kunshan, eastern China.

TTM Technologies is putting another USD 400 million into expanding production of advanced PCBs for AI data centres. Rather than building new plants, the company will expand four existing facilities in China and its plant in Penang.

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Arrow Electronics will bring several application-led technology demonstrations to electronica 2026, showing how AI, robotics, edge computing and electronic components are being applied across different vertical market segments.

Six weeks after the deal was announced, TTM Technologies has completed its acquisition of the software-defined radio maker. TTM now says explicitly that the purchase will dilute its earnings per share next year.

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An arson attack in the summer of 2024 destroyed much of CSI Sud-Ouest’s PCB factory in Toulouse. Two years on, the Cimulec subsidiary has rebuilt and inaugurated the plant, and none of its 57 employees has been made redundant.

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Israeli PCB manufacturer PCB Technologies is buying Gorilla Circuits in San Jose, California. The deal gives the company its first manufacturing base in the US and a way into contracts that require onshore production.

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North American PCB shipments rose 23.5% YoY in August, extending this year's growth. New bookings, however, fell sharply after a strong July.

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UK PCB manufacturer Merlin Flex has installed a new oil-heated vacuum lamination press with a bonding area of 1,800 by 750 millimetres, extending the company's ability to produce flexible circuits in continuous lengths of up to 1.8 metres.

Austrian IC substrate and PCB manufacturer AT&S has signed an expanded long-term agreement with semiconductor company Marvell Technology to supply advanced IC substrates for next-generation AI and cloud infrastructure.

Ventec Electronics (Suzhou), a subsidiary of Taiwanese laminate specialist Ventec International Group, is leasing an additional 20,000 square meters of factory space in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, according to a stock exchange filing.

While the semiconductor supply chain has dominated industry attention in recent years, a parallel bottleneck has been building in PCB base materials. AI data centre expansion is absorbing large quantities of high-grade laminates, leaving less capacity available for traditional industrial and automotive applications, according to a joint market analysis by STARTEAM GLOBAL and Würth Elektronik.

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Norwegian PCB supplier Confidee has completed its AS9120 recertification, confirming that its quality management system continues to meet the strict requirements of the aviation, space and defence industries. Confidee was originally certified in 2023.

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The PCB industry's material shortage is no longer confined to advanced laminates. According to a market update from Norwegian PCB supplier Confidee, the shortage has now spread to standard FR-4 and thicker copper-clad laminates – and conditions are not expected to ease through 2026 or into 2027.

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As material shortages push lead times for advanced printed circuit boards towards 2028, four-year-old PCB supplier Confidee has built its strategy around the opposite of locking customers into rigid commitments: complete transparency and a clear policy allowing customers to cancel or rebalance production without damaging the relationship. That is according to board member Didrik Bech.

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In an interview with Evertiq, Didrik Bech, board member of PCB supplier Confidee, described how the AI infrastructure boom is creating an unprecedented demand for materials, resulting in supply shortages that could reshape market conditions across several European industries.

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Europe's printed circuit board industry is having a moment. Defence spending is up, AI is driving demand, and policymakers are finally talking about electronics as strategic infrastructure. But as I discovered in a recent EMS@C-Level conversation with Vytautas Ilgunas, Chief Commercial Officer at TLT PCB, and Raymond Goh, Chief Operating Officer at Confidee, the comeback is running headfirst into a supply chain that we spent the last two decades hollowing out. The demand is real. The capacity to serve it, particularly in materials, is not.

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Austrian PCB and IC substrate manufacturer AT&S is expanding its Kulim manufacturing site in Malaysia, backed by agreements with AMD and another unnamed technology company.

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PCB manufacturer Somacis Group has completed the acquisition of Group ACB, a PCB manufacturer with two sites in France and one in Belgium.

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Kingboard Holdings has sold a 4.92% stake in its laminates subsidiary, Kingboard Laminates Holdings, raising net proceeds of approximately HKD 11.8 billion – roughly EUR 1.4 billion. The capital is earmarked for PCB capacity expansion and multi-layer and HDI capabilities.

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German PCB manufacturer Schweizer Electronic and Indian PCB maker Ascent Circuits – part of the Amber Group – have announced plans for a strategic cooperation in PCBs. The partnership targets automotive and industrial applications and is framed around supply chain resilience for customers in Europe and the United States.

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NCAB has acquired PCB solutions provider Board Shark LLC, based in Florida in the United States. The company generated USD 17 million in net sales during 2025, with profitability exceeding NCAB's own margins.

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TTM Technologies has opened a new Ultra-HDI printed circuit board manufacturing facility in Syracuse, New York, in the United States. The USD 130 million investment – including USD 30 million from the US Department of War – is set to create up to 400 new jobs and bring TTM's total workforce in the region to approximately 1,000.

U.S.-based TTM Technologies has announced plans to acquire Switzerland’s Swiss Technology Group and Germany’s ILFA GmbH. Both transactions are expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2026.

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Principal Mineral has acquired Isola Group, a century-old manufacturer of copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepregs, and raised approximately USD 280 million to fund its next phase of growth. The deal closed on June 16, 2026.

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Swedish PCB supplier NCAB has published a stark supply chain outlook in May 2026, describing a market under simultaneous pressure from AI demand, geopolitical disruption and raw material shortages. The company's conclusion is direct: what the industry is experiencing now is not a temporary disruption — it is a structural reset.

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German electronics equipment manufacturer SCHMID Group has signed a letter of intent with local authorities in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, to establish a new manufacturing campus in the Banfu Industrial Zone. The total investment is expected to be approximately EUR 11 million.

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The war in the Middle East has disrupted supplies of raw materials used in PCBs and pushed prices sharply higher, compounding cost pressures that were already building across the electronics industry, according to industry sources and executives cited by Reuters.

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The global raw material supply continues to pressure the electronic industry and not least the PCB manufacturing sector. What initially affected a narrow range of high-frequency materials has now evolved into a broader scope, impacting both advanced laminates and standard FR-4 materials.

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Austrian PCB and IC substrate manufacturer AT&S is expanding capacity at its Chongqing facility in China to meet growing demand for high-end IC substrates from a key customer in the AI segment.

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Europe is investing billions in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and data centres. These investments are meant to strengthen the region’s technological position and reduce external dependencies. But the question is becoming harder to ignore: to what extent is Europe building a system on a foundation that does not physically exist?

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