IPC - international association for the electronics industry join ® to released the survey report in July in North America, PCB industry, PCB sales and orders report showed positive growth were in July.
Sales and orders are improved
In July 2013 in North America, shipments of PCB industry, fell 1.5% year on year, orders rose 10.2%. Shipments fell by 4.2% year-to-date, PCB industry, orders increased by 0.1%. Compared with last month, PCB shipments fell 13.7% in July, orders dropped 3.2%. The growth of the PCB orders in July of the book-to-bill ratio pushed up to 1.06.
In July the IPC report shows the north American PCB sales and orders are improved
At the beginning of this year to date orders under the strong support of, sales fell though still in the interval, but compared with the first three months of sales have showed improved steadily, change is most obvious in July was rigid printed circuit board.
IPC market research director ms SharonStarr said: "affected by seasonal factors, PCB sales in the first quarter fell, and rose is the industry for good positive indicators, especially in July data is gratifying. Over the past two years, rigid PCB sales year-on-year data into growth area for the first time, the strength of the rigid and flexible PCB orders growth, push the PCB book-to-bill ratio start high."
The report details
Published this week in July in North America, PCB industry research statistics report, in the report of rigid PCB and flexible printed circuit board distribution lists sales, orders, book-to-bill ratio, military industry, medical electronic market growth condition and other important data. All participants in the survey company, reports, subscribers can receive the report free of charge.
GDP
Book-to-bill ratio, is to use the sample companies participating in the IPC research project in the past three months, orders of the same period divided by the sales ratio. Ratio greater than 1.00, said the current demand exceeds supply, signal in the next three to six months, the sales will be to the growth trend of development.
The growth rate of year-on-year growth rates and year-to-date, have guiding significance to explore the development trend of industry. Sequential data because of the cyclical and short-term sex change factors, need careful treatment. Compared with the data delivery, order data change is bigger, and months between book-to-bill ratio change, it is not that important, unless there is a clear change trend of more than 3 consecutive months. To explore the change of the order and shipment reason and understanding book-to-bill ratio changes are equally important.
IPC PCB industry statistics, a month comes from the area is typical in the United States and Canada just/flexible PCB manufacturer of sample companies to provide regular data. The IPC will be released monthly PCB book-to-bill ratio and PCB statistics project report. Monthly statistics report published in next month's last week.
