Njet Conducts High-Precision PCB Repair Demonstration Tests Based on AI Packaging with Global Companies

Acquisition of Rare Earth Recycling Business
Comprehensive Permits Secured in Areas Dense with Global Semiconductor Manufacturing Facilities
Initiating the Construction of a Circular Semiconductor PCB Ecosystem

On January 2, NJET announced that it had approved an agenda item at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders to acquire the printed circuit board (PCB)-based precious metal recycling division of EMR, a company specializing in recycling. Through this acquisition, NJET plans to enter the high value-added materials recycling market and establish the world's first circular manufacturing ecosystem for PCBs.

The company being acquired has been engaged in the recycling business for over 30 years. It holds comprehensive recycling permits in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, where many global semiconductor manufacturing plants are located. Since obtaining new permits is structurally limited in this environment, NJET expects that the acquisition will enable it to effectively enter the semiconductor materials recycling market.

NJET will leverage its existing advanced industrial precision material control technology and global corporate references to integrate with the acquired business division, pursuing a phased expansion into rare earth recycling. With this acquisition, NJET has secured not only the business track record in PCB-based recycling but also the permitting system necessary for recycling high value-added metals such as rare earth elements.

Through the acquisition, NJET will build a business model that includes not only its existing equipment sales-focused structure but also an operation-based recurring revenue model. The company is currently conducting demonstration tests of high-precision PCB repair technology based on semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) packaging in collaboration with global corporations. With the acquisition of the recycling business, NJET explained that it will establish a semiconductor PCB circular cycle that internalizes the entire process, from PCB repair to rare metal and rare earth recycling, and reintegration of materials.

A company representative stated, "By combining our precision coating and micro-patterning technologies, recycling operation experience, and permit base, we can implement a business model that connects repair and recycling into a single manufacturing cycle for the first time in the world." The representative added, "We are also in the final stages of organizational optimization to quickly achieve results in our new business."

As brushless DC (BLDC) motors become the standard driving motors for advanced industrial equipment such as semiconductors, electric vehicles, and robots, demand for key materials like neodymium and dysprosium, as well as other rare earth elements, is expected to surge. Recently, as China-the world’s largest holder of rare earth resources-has experienced trade conflicts with the United States, securing a stable supply chain of high-purity rare earths used in semiconductor manufacturing has emerged as a key factor in corporate competitiveness.

NJET plans to complete a circular, high value-added semiconductor PCB manufacturing ecosystem based on repair and recycling with this acquisition, and expand the scope of its strategic collaborations with global semiconductor manufacturers.