The electronic industrial connection association latest statistics show that in October 2010 north American hard printed circuit board (PCB) industry book-to-bill ratio (book - to - billratio) fell to 0.98; Hard PCB shipment 14.3% month-on-month decline during the month, the order also rose by 21.1%.
Compared with the same month last year, the north American hard PCB shipments with the growth of 13.6% in October, but orders or decline by 2.7%; Cumulative first ten months of 2010, north American hard PCB delivery is up 19.5% from a year earlier, order quantity also grew by 25.4% in soft circuit board section, October shipments is grown in the same month last year, 14.7%, and the orders are up 25.2%.
Total 1 ~ 10 months of this year, north American soft circuit board shipments up 11.0% from a year earlier, the order quantity growth 19.4%; But compared with last month, flexible circuit board shipments and orders decline, respectively 18.6% and 10.9% in October, flexible circuit board book-to-bill ratio is 1 in North America.
North America as a whole, October the hard and soft type PCB total book-to-bill ratio is 0.99, monthly shipments from the same month last year growth of 13.7%, but orders decline 0.8%; Compared with September, shipments and orders decline 14.7% and 20.3%. 1 ~ 2010 north American PCB accumulated in October shipments grew 18.8% from the same period a year earlier, orders rose 24.9%.
Of growing north American PCB market sales performance and has returned to the global financial storm hit the industry before, in October 2008 when the level; The IPC chairman and chief executive officer DennyMcGuirk said: in the past five months, the north American PCB book-to-bill ratio showed a trend of decline, at the same time order growth speed is slow, shows that the recovery has come to stagnation.
IPC book-to-bill ratio calculation, it is the vendor order amount of the past three months, divided by the same manufacturer during shipment amount, book-to-bill ratio greater than 1, means that the demand is higher than the supply, predict market sales growth over the next two to three months. Currently in North America, the hard PCB, accounting for 89% of the rate for the whole PCB market.
