42 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER 2021
Standard of Excellence:
The Beauty of a Partnership E
Partnerships are more important than ever.
Not only with your vendors, but with your
competitors as well. I believe that if we can all
start working together in this new post-pan-
demic world, life will be much better for all of
us individually but also better for our industry
as a whole.
EMC and Technica Introduced
New Extreme Low Loss High Speed
Materials at DesignCon 2021 E
EMC and Technica welcomed OEMs, ODMs,
and PCB fabricators to their booth at Design-
Con 2021 to learn more about these and other
high-speed products.
The Right Approach: The Laws of
Respect, Intuition, and Magnetism E
Good leadership always makes a difference;
unfortunately, so does bad leadership. is
leadership truth continues as we will be talk-
ing about the seventh, eighth, and ninth of the
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.
The Demand for Copper E
Nolan Johnson spoke with Michael Coll and
Chris Stevens of Nippon Denkai, home of the
last-standing ED foil manufacturer in North
America, about the demands and projections
they're currently seeing in the copper market.
Punching Out! 2021 Mid-Year
PCB/EMS M&A Update E
M&A activity is booming in the U.S. as the
nation emerges from the COVID pandemic.
anks to video conferencing and adjustments
in procedures, M&A was also pretty busy in
2020. Now that the economy has opened and
everyone is traveling, more deals are being
discussed.
Ventec, Taiyo America Sign
Exclusive Distribution Agreement
for Mainland Europe, UK E
Ventec International Group Co., Ltd., is pleased
to announce it will be taking over the exclusive
distribution of Taiyo products in mainland
Europe, the UK and Ireland.
Dan's Biz Bookshelf:
Damn Good Advice
(for People with Talent) E
If you want a book that not only shows how
to be creative and spark your own creativity
but provides real-life examples of what true
originality looks like, this is the book for you.
It is a small book filled with 119 ways to spark
your own creativity. I love this book. I always
keep it on my desk so that when I get stuck for
an idea to write about, I look through it and I
always find something that will get my engine
running again.
Riding the Wave of Copper
Inflation Pricing E
In this interview, Ventec's Mark Goodwin
discusses the rising inflation hitting the
electronics industry at the same moment as
shortages of copper and other raw materials.
He believes that, while the PCB industry has
endured cycles like this before, this one feels
different.
