Up Close with Victor Meijers, SVP ECIA/TrustedParts.com and Elmar Kert, Founder, Sluicebox.ai

Published: September 28, 2025

Up Close with Victor Meijers, SVP ECIA/TrustedParts.com and Elmar Kert, Founder, Sluicebox.ai

EMSNOW spoke with Victor Meijers, Senior Vice President of ECIA/TrustedParts.com, and Elmar Kert, Sluicebox.ai Founder,open in new window to explore the details of a recently announced partnership between the two organizations.

This initiative comes in response to pressure from EMS and OEM customers for emissions data in order to meet regulatory requirements and strengthen their appeal to environmentally focused industries. The partnership between TrustedParts.com, the authorized channel of electronic components, and Sluicebox, a generative lifecycle assessment (LCA) platform, provides instant emissions data that is reliable and meaningful.

According to Kert, Sluicebox stands out from other approaches because it is developed and validated directly by component manufacturers. TrustedParts.com, a free resource for buyers, is the natural place to host this data, allowing engineers to make decisions based on carbon impact during the design stage—moving toward a proactively sustainable future. Watch the complete discussion here:

For more information about Sluicebox’s methodology, read this article: Sluicebox and TrustedParts Introduce a Novel Solution for Component-Level Carbon Emissions Data: Generative LCAsopen in new window

The Trusted Source for Authorized Inventory

TrustedParts.com was created by ECIA in collaboration with participating distributors as a free service to support the authorized electronic components industry by giving users access to aggregated price and availability data for genuine parts from only authorized sources.

While other inventory aggregation sites may include data from sources that are not authorized by the manufacturer, ECIA works extensively on an ongoing basis to verify that price and availability data displayed on TrustedParts.com is only for products for which the distributors are authorized/franchised. This is why TrustedParts.com is the best source for searching the authorized channel for the electronic components you need.

To learn more about how to list your inventory, or to view our Terms of Use and other information related to participating on TrustedParts.com, please visit our documentation for participating distributors.

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