The development trend of the epoxy pcb in Japan

In 2007, the epoxy printed circuit boards, packaging substrates and specialized processing of the electronic circuit industry in Japan, compared with growth of 4.8% the previous year, reaching 2 trillion RMB 517,300,000,000; of these Japanese epoxy printed circuit boards (PCB) year growth of 5.0%, to 1.3799 trillion yen, becoming the biggest scale since the IT (information technology) bubble in 2000. The printed circuit board develop in the difficult direction, generally speaking, it is difficult to expect Japan's domestic demand, the Japanese epoxy printed circuit boards (PCB) a substantial increase in production is more difficult, but because of consumer electronic products such as LCD TV , digital cameras, portable products, entertainment machines and other high-functionality, in this context driven, making high-density printed circuit board production increased, compared with last year, both single-sided, double-panel or 4-layer multi - laminates in the production, output value has a higher growth, even if the lower circuit board is also continuing to develop high degree of difficulty. The export situation of the electronic products which made semiconductor as the center is also very good, especially the demands of circuit boards in the module substrate have a large increasing. Flexible printed circuit boards reached a peak in 2003, but then it was in the doldrums for 3 consecutive years, but the multilayer flexible circuit boards increased by 30.6% compared with last year, the all flexible circuit boards increased by 6.2%. Such high growth rate of multi-layer flexible printed circuit boards shows the trends from the target market to high-density development is strengthening.

This requires not only the material can be used to ensure a stable supply, but also the continuous development of technological progress. The module substrate did not reach the growth of last year in 2007, but still maintained the logic or memory chips such as the installation of assembly need for increase in IC package substrates, the overall increase over last year on the module substrate by 9.8% to RMB 539,810,000,000, the total output of printed circuit boards to reach 39.1% (accounting for 37.4% in 2006, 38% in 2005). Of the total output value of printed circuit close to 40%. Achieved a substantial rapid growth targets. The module substrates and printed circuit board is different from being a limited monopoly of a few production factory. Even in the world, the Japanese substrate boards manufacturing is also the strongest. Since most of the module substrate customers are overseas, it is a good main export situation. Laminated multilayer printed circuit board market steadily expanded each year, it is gradually infiltrated into multilayer market. Also high increased in 2007, by 20.5% over last year, reaching RMB 446,500,000,000 scale. In this context, taking into account the strong demand for electronic products will be more of a high-density circuit boards, the result of new technology must be highly difficult to focus to some monopolist.

It is expected electronic circuit substrate in 2008 the output value will reach 1.3938 trillion yen. In 2008 the epoxy printed circuit boards (PCB) output performance compared with 2007 growth of 1.0% to 1.3938 trillion yen in Japan; the economy had been deceleration since the second half of 2007, the world's economic boom has also been back, it is wonderred if to give full adrift from the state of full recovery point of view is more reasonable and appropriate. First half of 2007, Japan epoxy printed circuit board (PCB) production of total income of RMB 494,900,000,000 (about 43 billion U.S. dollars), compared with same period last year 8.6%; output decreased by 1.4% from a year earlier to 12.17 million square meters . This makes the income increased, reduced yields. The managers of Japan epoxy printed circuit board (PCB) industry gradually shift its attention on high-priced products to improve profits; second half of 2006 has been the perpetuation of this business plan. Early in 2007 the trend still exists. The PCB Manufacturers achieve two-digit growth in revenue, output has dropped more than 5%. Over the past few months, Japanese manufacturers have changed the direction of development, focusing on increasing production and profits at the expense and be happy to retain market share. Japanese pcb manufacturers are taking a different marketing strategy for each product category , particularly, reflected in the flexible circuits. As the double-sided, multilayer circuits are enjoyed higher prices, so the circuit manufacturers want to gradually shift from making single side boards to the double-sided, multilayer circuit boards.