{"id":236404,"date":"2026-05-03T02:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/pcb-prices-have-risen-by-up-to-40-due-to-war-in-iran-according-to-reuters-industry-sources"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:02:53","slug":"pcb-prices-have-risen-by-up-to-40-due-to-war-in-iran-according-to-reuters-industry-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/pcb-prices-have-risen-by-up-to-40-due-to-war-in-iran-according-to-reuters-industry-sources","title":{"rendered":"PCB prices have risen by up to 40% due to war in Iran, according to Reuters\u2019 industry sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pcb-prices-have-risen-by-up-to-40-due-to-war-in-iran-according-to-reuters-industry-sources2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to \u201cindustry sources and executives\u201d <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-war-disrupts-the-circuit-board-supply-chain-raises-costs-tech-firms-2026-04-27\/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-war-disrupts-the-circuit-board-supply-chain-raises-costs-tech-firms-2026-04-27\/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">known to Reuters<\/a>, the war in Iran is affecting the supply of materials that are crucial for Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), which has made them shoot up in price. Reuters says that, cccording to Goldman Sachs, PCB prices in April shot up by as much as 40% since March.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news agency, \u201cIran struck Saudi Arabia\u2019s Jubail petrochemical complex in early April, forcing a halt in production of high-purity polyphenylene ether (PPE) resin\u2014a critical base material used to \u2060manufacture PCB laminates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to \u201cindustry sources and executives\u201d known to Reuters, the war in Iran is affecting the supply of materials that are crucial for Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), which has made them shoot up in price. Reuters says that, cccording to Goldman Sachs, PCB prices in April shot up by as much as 40% since March. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}