Electronics industries: French on march

Waste Minimization in the Electronics Products Industries

An overview is provided of the production processes, waste generation, and waste management of the electronics products industries. Chosen product areas include electron tubes, semiconductors, capacitors/resistors, and printed circuit/wiring boards. Examples are given o f specific processes and associated waste streams. Waste minimization activities are identified, and specif?c examples of succ...

11. Silicones in the Electronics Industries

Before 1943, planes could maintain high altitudes for only a few minutes before ignition losses due to moisture condensing in the engines. A simple thickened PDMS grease was the solution and an early example of the excellent dielectric properties of silicones. This application also illustrates key properties of silicones in the electronic industries like hydrophobicity and high dielectric break...

LCA and EcoDesign in the German Electronics Industries

The electronics industry is particularly affected by the product related environmental legislation of the EU like the Directive 2005/32/EC on the eco-design of Energy-using Products [1]. There are clear indications that numerous companies will have to conduct Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) of their products and will have to integrate EcoDesign by some other means into their product development pr...

Electronic Business in the Electrical Machinery and Electronics Industries

R&D investment and the government’s R&D policies of electronics industries in Korea and Taiwan

Focusing on the electronics industry, this paper verifies and compares how bipolar R&D policy contributed to growth in productivity in Korea and Taiwan. Two implications are derived from the empirical results. First, in Korea, government’s business group-centered R&D policy encouraged private R&D expenditure rather than public R&D infrastructure. Second, and in contrast, publicly funded R&D inf...