Engineering institute IEK forecast, this year the Taiwanese on both sides of the printed circuit board (PCB) output for nt $505.7 billion, a 1.88% cut in, due to the international brand city share downturn hit PCB Taiwanese businessmen, expected next year, the global economy gradually improving, Taiwan PCB industry will grow on both sides.
Taiwan PCB association (TPCA) with the institute sankei ITIS project hosted at the centre of the PCB industry trend seminar series and 2013 quarterly conference today, theme focuses on Asian PCB industry competitiveness and the trend of material.
Japan and South Korea PCB industry competitiveness, IEK zhong dong Ming said global PCB production in 2013, an analyst forecast of $59.81 billion, if the manufacturer's country, accounts for about 27% of Taiwan, Japan, South Korea 23% and 15%, the total accounted for about 65% of global output.
He suggested that Taiwan manufacturers by Japanese PCB factory to be transferred to the non 3 c application field, with the Taiwan factory products less direct conflict, strengthen the platform, technical cooperation, on the other hand also through fully grasp Korean electronic products development trend and strengthen customer support services, for release by the Korean electronics brand of PCB outsourcing business opportunities.
Jiang Baifeng IEK analyst pointed out that to launch new smart phones and tablets on the market, driving up on both sides of Taiwan PCB industry height growth, 2013 third quarter on both sides of Taiwan PCB industry output value of the second quarter growth of 14%, to 138.1 billion nt dollars, for 2011 to present the highest output in one season. Forecasts for the fourth quarter, the downstream cargo strength slowed, on both sides of Taiwan PCB production will be down 5.1%, slightly to $131 billion.
For Taiwan PCB industry, Jiang Baifeng thinks, filling up the gap of the existing customer orders, efforts should be made to develop new customers, introduce new revenue source for the company, and in the overall global economy gradually improving, sales buoyant lift electronic products market, forecasts on both sides of Taiwan PCB industry in 2014 will grow by 2.23%, output value may rise to 517 billion yuan, expected next year Taiwan PCB industry can be out of the plight of the stagnation of GDP growth this year.
