Keyword: printed circuit boards, PCB industry, PCB sales
Rigid PCB circuit boards, shipments fell 4.2% year on year in July and orders fell by 5.7%. As of the release date, rigid PCB shipments fell by 5.3% in 2012, the order is increased by 1.1%. Shipments fell 16.6% compared with last month, the rigid PCB, orders dropped 18.7%. In July 2012 in North America, rigid PCB industry book-to-bill ratio continued to slide, just stay at the 1.00 level.
Flexible circuit boards, shipments rose 15.4% in July, orders fell 35.0% year on year. As of the release date, flexible circuit board shipments fell by 4.2% in 2012, orders fell by 7.7%. Compared with last month, flexible circuit board shipments fell 9.1%, orders dropped 46.7%. In July 2012 in North America, flexible circuit board book-to-bill gradient to 1.03, the main reason is the weakness of strong sales in July and orders.
Just flexible plate, shipments fell 2.6% in July, orders down 8.4% year on year. By the end of the day, just flexible combination plate shipments fell by 5.2% this year, orders were up 0.3%. Compared with last month, shipments fell 16.0%, the order is also reduced 21.4% month-on-month. In July 2012 just flexible combination of plate book-to-bill ratio declined slightly, but keep in positive level of 1.01.
SharonStarr IPC market research director, said: "the north American PCB sales in July and orders fell sharply, reaction to the normal cyclical effect. The strong sales performance, flexible circuit boards in July the fall of the situation has eased. In view of the first half of this year higher book-to-bill ratio, flexible circuit boards on robust sales of the flexible circuit board in July, was no surprise."
Book-to-bill ratio, it is of the companies in the IPC sample, in addition to the same period in the past three months sales orders of numerical calculation. Ratio greater than 1.00 illustrates the current demand greater than supply, signal in the next two or three months, the sales will be toward growth trend.
Just flexible combination of plate book-to-bill ratio and growth rate, mainly affected by the rigid PCB. According to the IPC global PCB production statistics report, in North America, rigid PCB accounted for about 90% share of the PCB industry.
IPC monthly survey data of PCB industry in North America, from the United States and Canada, the quantity of goods and shipments of the enterprise, the data shows the demand index of the region. The data could not be used to measure in the United States and Canada local production of PCB. In order to grasp the production situation of the region, the IPC for companies involved in the investigation provide their shipments in the United States, Canada, local production, percentage in the submitted data. Submitted, according to data from the PCB and 83% of total shipments in July 2012, is a domestic production in North America. The IPC survey, 83% of the rigid PCB shipments in July locally, flexible PCB shipments 82% locally. These data clearly affected by the IPC sample company integrated, a slight change of data in January, but the rest of the month will remain constant.
Source: //www.seekic.com
