The move to bring production closer

After years of concentration in Asia, electronics manufacturing is experiencing a movement of nearshoring and China+1 strategies: companies spread the risk by producing closer to the consumer market. VRI Indústria Eletrônica, a Brazilian EMS with Brazil–US operations, is at the center of that shift in Latin America.

Why it is happening

Several factors push production closer:

• - Supply chain resilience — the semiconductor crisis showed the cost of

depending on a single region

• - Tariffs and geopolitics — trade changes make long routes more expensive
• - Lead time and proximity — producing nearby reduces lead time and eases

engineering adjustments

• - Total cost — freight, inventory and risk enter the equation, not just the unit price

Brazil's position

The Brazilian industrial base has been migrating toward a high-mix, low-volume profile and greater added value — exactly where proximity, engineering and traceability matter more than raw scale. For manufacturers in the US and Latin America, this opens up a nearshoring alternative with favorable time zone and logistics.

<Callout type="info"> Nearshoring is not just "producing closer": it is shortening the cycle between design, engineering adjustment and production — where a local partner with an integrated chain makes a real difference. </Callout>

What VRI offers in this scenario

VRI combines Brazil–US operations, engineering, PCB fabrication, assembly and box build under one roof, with a quality system compliant with ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 and processes conforming to IPC. It is the structure a nearshoring project looks for: proximity without giving up an audited process.

Conclusion

The question is no longer "produce in Asia or not" and has become "how to distribute the risk". For many products — especially regulated and low-volume ones — producing in Brazil has become a competitive advantage.

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