PCB industry has been steadily forwardearly 2006 suffered the prices of raw materials; European Union environmentalregulations take effect on July 1. The face of increasingly fierce globalcompetition, how to grasp the opportunities of the industry, and how to defusethe pressure on raw material prices to further development and growth in thenew era of green? In the recently held 2006 circuit board industry developmentand corporate management forum, industry experts and business representativescarried out in-depth discussion on this topic.

The PCB face of raw material prices

The prices of raw materials PCB industryhas been around, but the checkpoints, and the test has been continued. Ying Fu,group vice president, said PCB raw material prices first from copper prices,copper prices, copper foil and sheet along with rose leaves cloud water.Dongguan ITEQ Technology Co., Ltd. Deputy General Manager Chen Yubi currentcopper foil short supply, the price increase is inevitable. In addition, thetight market supply of glass cloth, resin prices continued to increase slowly.Expert analysis in the area of electronic cloth,said in 2006 the country will consume electronic cloth 832 million meters, the2006 national electronic cloth production is projected to reach 750 millionmeters, which means electronic market, leaving a shortfall of 80 million meterscloth. China Glass Fiber Industry Association adviser crisis Yangjae, G-75electronic yarn per kilogram has reached $ 1.75 to $ 1.80, 7628 electroniccloth per meter has reached $ .78 to $ .80, do not rule out the possibility ofa recently rising. He also pointed out that some companies the new electroniccloth production line in the second half of this year, there will be a largenumber of electronic cloth market the, electronic cloth market selling is expectedto end in order to gradually ease.

The basic the entire substrate requiredthree raw materials continued to show up in less than one year trend, but it isnow up to the high, and then rose a little space. "Said Chen Yubi. He alsonoted that in August all CCL manufacturers will not have inventory, healthbenefits, mao, South Asia and other CCL makers because of cost pressures, sentprices 8% -15%. How to adjust substrate Price depends on the supply and demandsituation.

Looking to the next day, the PCB factory onkey raw materials offer up earthshaking pressure, under the high cost of theinability to pass on the up and down the attack, poor physical and bullet sometime PCB plant how to break the siege ?

Cloud water for PCB enterprises, in orderto raise prices to the downstream machine enterprises is not easy PCB want toraise prices, customers can choose another manufacturers do, this is the harshreality of the market economy. PCB enterprises in the face of the upstreamindustry, upward pressure on prices, and often end up only the cost ofself-sacrifice profits. Although it can not be generalized, but the PCBenterprises Lianhaoneigong, to be effective management is always the toppriority.

The leaf cloud water stressed, the face ofupward pressure on prices of raw materials, enterprises must be their owninternal digestion in controlling the cost of doing the work, includingmaterials, manufacturing and other sectors, and strive to improve laborefficiency; see the product, look at the supply and demand situation, theupstream products not just all raw materials prices, and some can keep theprices down. Of PCB enterprises in terms of quality, delivery, price andservice of these four elements must form their own characteristics, and formtheir own competitiveness.

Prices just the ups and downs of the markettemporarily, the powerful enterprises should be able to compete. With theimplementation of the RoHS Directive, environmental protection has become a thePCB industry faces new topic. In this regard, the PCB enterprises need to startfrom the raw materials, production, wastewater treatment, and all aspects ofchecks and long-term perspective, and to adapt to new challenges.

The PCB industry status Chizhongweiyou in China

In a report entitled "the two sides ofthe circuit board and equipment market trend analysis, Taiwan ITRI SankeiCenter, Huang Jinhua manager pointed out that the global PCB industry stillmaintained steady growth from 2005 to 2008 the average annual growth rate ismaintained at 7.8 %. From capacity expansion perspective, the Chinese mainlandin 2006, will become the leader of the output value. Huang Jinhua furtherpointed out that, from the global the PCB market products trend point of view,the package carrier board, microplate demand will grow, while the soft board(FPC) is the future growth of the PCB star product.

Now the mainland of China PCB market can bedescribed the warlords in hand, the large-scale development of the brightestmanufacturers in mainland China,the formation of the layout is complete, and the pattern of a wide range ofproduct lines, highlighting the strength of the PCB market in the Mainland.Huang Jinhua pointed out that the distribution in the mainland of China PCBproduction value in 2005 amounted to 86.64 billion yuan in output value, theactual contribution by indigenous Mainland proportion is very small, areflection of the Mainland of China PCB behind the prosperity of the worry.

China's electronic information industry in recent years the rapid developmentof PCB industry has lagged far behind in the overall growth of the electronicinformation industry, especially multilayer, HDI board production lags farbehind the demand of the market, will require a lot of count on outside, thus China's PCB industrythere is still considerable room for development. Huang Jinhua pointed out,China's PCB gap is reflected in the following aspects: First, the productioncapacity of small and medium-sized and privately owned enterprises, and most ofthe technical standards around there is no internationally accepted industrystandard; Third, the lack of a recognized brand in the low-end products;;inability to engage in research and development; five high-end equipment,technology and more in the hands of foreign-funded enterprises; six is not yet formed, fully furnished, industry self-regulation of themarket; seven waste disposal has not yet reached the environmental standards;eight compound talents urgent

Culture. To this end, he suggested that thePCB enterprises seeking high-margin products, to intervene in the transition tothe high-end product line, such as a soft board, Rigid-Flex board, LCD panels,TFT panel Source board automotive electronics board memory or memory card boardmemory module board, even more than ten layers of the PCB.

Display industry growth in demand driven bysoft board

Consumer electronics has become the drivingforce of the growth driven by the needs of PCB industry. With the increasinglywide range of flat panel display terminal products, despite a variety of flatpanel display (FPD) requires only ordinary PCB board, but its huge demand hasdriven the PCB industry. The new display technology TFT and PDP revolutionaryimpetus to the development of the flexible circuit board (FPC). Clear thePrecision Maskmaking (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. Deputy General Manager Pangchun Lin pointedout, accompanied by a variety of machine demand growth, a new type of flatpanel display the dependencies and PCB is more prominent, and commondevelopment, alternate mutually beneficial situation.

Generally, TFT module take more than threeor four PCB + multi-block FPC (flexible circuit board) mode. PCB is mainly forthe power supply board, signal board, scanning board, the use of more than fouror six layers of the multilayer. For the flexible circuit board (FPC), the TFTand its on the quantity and quality of a closer relationship. As each driver ICrequires a FPC as the bearer, thus boosting demand of FPC. Such as more than a15-inch TFT modules, while 8-14 COG flexible circuit board, but also need to4-6 from the connection function of FPC. Pangchun Lin pointed out that due tothe wide application of TFT TV, notebook and monitor unlimited market spacewill not be ignored PCB and FPC.

PDP contribution to the growth of the PCBin expanding. According to DisplaySearch data show that, in 2005, the number ofglobal shipments of PDP (plasma display) has risen to 7.15 million units, willexceed 10 million units in 2006. PDP module uses four PCB + multi-block FPC"connection, including 4 PCB power supply board, drive, data, and controlpanel, the image interface board. TFT similar development from 2003 to 2005,the PDP considerable progress has also led to the development of the FPC andPCB industry. Pang Chunlin PDP also needs the FPC to bear driver IC, andconnected to the motherboard, so also need more number of the FPC, which willpromote the demand for the FPC.

OLED module A COF + PCB of STN mode, theother one is in the large size OLED by 3 blocks to the manner of combination ofthe 4 block PCB with certain FPC. OLED itself displays size reasons, the numberand area of PCB demand is not great.