China Circuit Board Analysis
Development of the methods used in modern printed circuit boards started early in the 20th century. In 1903, a German inventor, Albert Hanson, described flat foil conductors laminated to an insulating board, in multiple layers. Thomas Edison experimented with chemical methods of plating conductors onto linen paper in 1904. Arthur Berry in 1913 patented a print-and-etch method in Britain, and in the United States Max Schoop obtained a patent to flame-spray metal onto a board through a patterned mask. Charles Durcase in 1927 patented a method of electroplating circuit patterns.
Nowdays the high technology products such as cells, LED lights, TVs realease new product kind often. With the high technology improves, there will come out new product time to time. Most of high technology products concerns about the electric products, which will lead to the bigger request for the PCB products. In general, I think PCB is a promising product.
The demand for smartphones and touchscreen tablets are the major drivers of this industry. Another significant driver for this industry is the demand for products with features that are more advanced and that offer greater convenience. The frequent technological changes occurring in the electronic market, together with the demand for new products, are among additional industry drivers.
China has become the country that enjoys the largest circuit board output value and the fastest growth speed, and also the main driving force to promote the development of the global PCB industry. In 2012, there were 791 PCB enterprises with above designated scale in China with the market scale exceeded CNY 250 billion.
In 2013, as the cost of copper declining, the upstream industry like copper clad laminate manufacturers can directly benefit from the decrease of cost of copper. For downstream industry like circuit board manufacturers, can also reap a little less profit from it. But the increasing cost of components will directly influence PCBA industries. Therefore, the prospect of the whole circuit board industries may not be defined as flourishing or not up to now.
According to “Information Industry Science and Technology Development “11th Five-Year” Plan and Long-term Planning Framework in 2020”, circuit board (especially multi-layer, flexible, flexible-rigid and environment-friendly circuit board technology) is one of the key fields in China’s electronics information industry over the next 5 to 15 years.
circuit board industry in China mainland will maintain rapid growth in the next three years. The rapid development of the domestic 3G industry as well as the rise of electronic terminals such as smart phones, tablet PCs, green base station, will have a strong pulling effect on circuit board , driving the growth of circuit board industry. In 2016, the output value will reach USD 48 billion in China, accounting for 49.4% of the global circuit board output value.