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What’s Driving Cost Increases Across Cable Assemblies, Metal Fabrication & Molded Parts Stepping into 2026, many OEMs are facing a familiar but intensifying pattern—supplier price increase notifications across multiple categories. Following multiple rounds of PCB price adjustments, as analyzed in ourPCB Pricing in 2025: What Really Drove Cost and Lead-Time Changes — and How OEMs…

Over the past few years, cable and wire harness assemblies have become noticeably more expensive for many OEM programs. Copper prices are often cited as the main reason. While copper is a major raw material, it rarely explains the full picture. Connector selection, labor-intensive assembly processes, manufacturing location, and tariff structures can also have a…