Case Study: Sinctronics achieves circular electronics manufacturing and major cost & emissions reductions with Flex

Bringing circular manufacturing to electronics with Sinctronics

Sinctronics, founded by Flex, set out to tackle the growing problem of electronic waste in Brazil by creating the country’s first integrated circular-manufacturing ecosystem. Faced with high reverse-logistics costs and limited local recycling infrastructure, Sinctronics — leveraging Flex’s design, engineering and supply-chain expertise — built capabilities across reverse logistics, recycling facilities and a Green IT Innovation Center to collect, refurbish and re-manufacture electronic components and plastics.

With Flex’s support, Sinctronics implemented optimized reverse logistics and in-house recycling processes that cut client costs by up to 30% and sped material collection by 50%. The program returns 97% of recovered material to the supply chain, achieves up to 82% energy and greenhouse-gas savings for recycled plastics, and has helped customers replace an average of 20% of virgin plastic with recycled material — demonstrating measurable environmental and economic impact driven by Flex and Sinctronics’ circular approach.

Sinctronics

Carlos Ohde

Director General