IPC International Community magazine an association member publication
Issue link: https://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1523888
IPC COMMUNITY 38 SUMMER 2024 ufacturing market because it tracks the number of people trained per year. At the beginning of the deindustrialization of the mid-1990s, for example, IFTEC trained 681 people per year. In 2003, little had changed, with 690 trained in that year. But by 2010, the num- ber of trainings increased to 1,049; in 2023, it was 1,711. "This may mean that there has been a move- ment of labor forces from mass production structures," Pierre-Jean says. "Electronics manu- facturing has not disappeared at all. It probably decreased and restructured for various applica- tions. We can add environmental considerations, such as the need to produce locally, or geopolitical considerations, but one thing is certain: There will always be electronics manufacturing in France." Establishing a Family Company Pierre-Jean began his career at IFTEC-France in 1984, a company founded by his father, Roland, who was considered a pioneer of PCB industrialization in France at the end of the 1950s. "It is a family company," Pierre-Jean says. "As my father had companies other than IFTEC also in the electron- ics sector, when I was young, I had the opportunity to work there during the holidays for a long time. It made me want to work in this field." As an adult, he brought to IFTEC a bachelor's degree and license in mechanical engineering from Dijon Technical University and an MBA from the Burgundy Business School in Dijon. His specialty was management controller. He became president of IFTEC in 1989. From 2008 to 2016, he was president of GFIE, a group of suppliers of the electronics industry and a French union. In 2016, after the merger of GFIE with ACSIEL, the major French electronics companies union, he served as vice president Pierre-Jean Albrieux received the 2024 IPC Hall of Fame Award. He is the first from Europe to receive this award.