December 6, 2006, the IPC Board membersNilesh Naik HKPCA & IPC SHOW was entitled "the perspective of thestatus of the North American PCB industry," keynote speech.

Mr. Naik that the PCB industry in North America will be in a relatively stable period ofdevelopment, there will be no significant increase, but also do not have toworry about the situation will become very bad. Because of the research andinnovation capacity in the United States, has been ahead of other countries, amodel for which the demand of the Allegro will not be reduced. The UnitedStates is now the vast majority of the mass production has shifted to Asia andother low-cost regions, only bulk PCB manufacturers, production is undercontrol products, such as the military, aerospace and other industries. Say,American PCB has completed his re-layout process.

Thus, it appears such an interestingphenomenon: PCB production value in North America in recent years has beendecreasing, while the United States is still the world's the PCB largestconsumer country, they just mass production is transferred abroad, butproduction in low-cost regions PCB, and eventually for U.S. products.