Global Electronics Association East Asia has announced its 2026 East Asia Awards, recognizing companies and industry professionals for contributions to IPC standards development, adoption and smart manufacturing.
The Asia Outstanding Standardization Enterprise Award recognizes contributions to developing, promoting and implementing IPC standards. Honorees are Foxconn Technology Group; GM (China) Investment Co.,Ltd.; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; ZTE Corporation; Shennan Circuits Co., Ltd.; Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric Co., Ltd.; AT&S (Chongqing) Company Ltd.; Southwest China Research Institute of Electronic Equipment; China Electronic Product Reliability and Environmental Testing Research Institute; and Committee on Social Responsibility of China Electronics Standardization Association.
The Asia Outstanding Smart Manufacturing Enterprise Award recognizes companies that implement IPC standards and advance digitalization, intelligent manufacturing and automation. Recipients are Flex Manufacturing (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd.; Phoenix Contact Asia-Pacific (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.; Midea Group; AT&S (China) Company Ltd.; AT&S (Chongqing) Company Ltd.; Delta Electronics (Jiangsu) Ltd.; and AUMOVIO Automotive Changchun Co., Ltd., Jingyue Branch.
The Asia Distinguished Standards Committee Leadership Award recognizes chairs, co-chairs and vice chairs of IPC standards task groups for leadership in standards development. The honorees are Crystal Dai, Lina Zhao, Zhiman Chen, Yongsheng Huang, Nick Huang, Jianqiang Luo and Wenyan Zhou.
The Asia Distinguished Standards Committee Service Award recognizes industry experts for contributions to IPC standards development and technical committee activities during the year. Its recipients are Yaoqin Yang, Yunfeng Jiao, Xiaobo Wen, Youzhu Zhang, Kenneth Ling, Chun Chen, Jun Du, Ivan Cai, Ganlin Shen, Janny Jiang, Joyce Zhang, Bing Xu, FeiFei Kang, Xiuzhuo Xie, Jie Chen, Xingcheng Xie, Ping Zhao, Yangchun Zhang, Zhihao Han, Ding Peng, Sikui Ren, Xianghu Pan and Ji Chen.
The remaining service award recipients are Xixiong Ouyang, Chengyan Cui, Colin Xu, Shijie Chen, Mingbin Xiong, Lixiang Lin, Chen Cui, Zhi Chang, Kun Jiang, Qixiang Xie, Wenyu Su, Zhaoqiang Wang, Xiaoshan Liu, Yung Jui Chen, Gang Yin, Weifeng Qu and Xiangfu Xia.
Sydney Xiao, president of Global Electronics Association East Asia, said: “The advancement of the electronics industry depends on both strong manufacturing capabilities and robust technical standards. We congratulate this year’s recipients for their contributions to standardization, manufacturing excellence, and standards development, and thank them for helping strengthen the quality, consistency, and competitiveness of the industry.”
