May U.S. Manufacturing PMI® at 56.1%, up 0.7% from April

New Orders, Production and Backlogs Growing at Faster Rates Employment Contracting; Supplier Deliveries Slowing at a Slower Rate Raw Materials Inventories Growing at a Faster Rate; Customers’ Inventories Too Low Prices Increasing at a Slower Rate; Exports Growing at a Faster Rate; Imports Contracting Record-Long Lead Times for Capital Expenditures   (Tempe, Arizona) — Economic […]

IPC India Celebrates a Decade of Service to the Electronics Manufacturing Industry

IPC India is one of IPC’s global offices, with locations in Bengaluru and Delhi. We are celebrating a decade of IPC involvement in India’s electronics manufacturing industry, supporting IPC in this corner of the world. Some of the highlights of our involvement in the industry are as follows: IPC India is holding skills challenge competitions […]

North American EMS Industry Up 4.3 Percent in April

IPC releases EMS industry results for April 2022   BANNOCKBURN, Ill., USA — IPC announced today the April 2022 findings from its North American Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.36. Total North American EMS shipments in April 2022 were up 4.3 percent compared to the same month last year. Compared […]

Apple pushing shift away from China, Says Taipai Times

SOURCE: EDITORIAL: Apple pushing shift away from China Vietnam or other ASEAN states, and India could become the next manufacturing hubs of Taiwanese firms over the next one to two decades, especially after Apple Inc reportedly told its major contract manufacturers to boost capacity outside China to avert risks of production disruptions. Apple is a […]