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SCHMID Pushes Toward the Submicron

October 7, 2026 | Marcy LaRont, I-Connect007 Magazine

Fabricators are confronting process requirements today that would have seemed foreign to the PCB shop not long ago, presenting both a promise and a significant manufacturing challenge. SCHMID is one company rising to it in big ways. SCHMID's Laurent Nicolet, VP for the Business Unit PCB, talks about the convergence between PCB fabrication and semiconductor processing as feature sizes shrink, the emergence of glass as an attractive substrate and interposer material, and SCHMID’S embedded trace technology and the work toward moving that technology into high-volume manufacturing.

It’s Only Common Sense: When the Cheapest Board Becomes the Most Expensive

October 4, 2026 | Dan Beaulieu, It's Only Common Sense

There is an old saying that price is what you pay, while cost is what you live with, a truism in the PCB industry, where too many companies still purchase PCBs by placing three quotations side by side and automatically choosing the lowest number. On the surface, that looks like responsible purchasing, but was it really a victory?





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Marcy’s Musings: A World of Difference

September 17, 2026 | Marcy LaRont, Marcy's Musings

I've spent a good deal of time in Asia over the years, both traveling and living there, so arriving in Thailand for THECA wasn't my first experience stepping into another culture or another way of doing business. Still, there is...

The Marketing Minute: When Everyone Is a Thought Leader, No One Is

September 8, 2026 | Brittany Martin, The Marketing Minute

There is no shortage of expertise in the electronics industry. If you spend just a few minutes talking with someone who has been designing circuit boards, running a manufacturing facility, or troubleshooting assembly lines for 20 or...

The Chemical Connection: More Solutions to Common PCB Etching Questions

September 9, 2026 | Don Ball, The Chemical Connection

Rather than pontificating at great length on a subject I know nothing about, although I have been known to do this on occasion (the scientific term for this is “baffling them with bull****”), I decided to comment on some basic...

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