Golden Age of China PCB Instrument in the Future Decade There are more than 2,800 companies in PCB industry, among which over 1,500 are from China, more than a half. According to the statistics from CPCA, Chinese PCB production value has remained the world's first since 2006, which is 100 billion yuan in 2006, 116.3 billion yuan in 2007, 21.636 billion dollar in 2012 which is 39.84% of the global PCB production value and about 22 billion dollar in 2013 which is 41.4% of the global value.
As an important module of the industry, PCB instrument has developed rapidly along with massive foreign investment, new companies' establishment, technique reconstruction and plant expansion, with a market capacity increase of 20% of national PCB production value. It is predicted that market volume can reach to 48.8 billion yuan and CAGR can reach to 11.0% from 2010 to 2015, which is significantly higher than 7% increase of global market, showing the promising market potential of PCB instrument in China. With the sustainable growth of PCB production value and market expansion of instrument, market share of domestic PCB instrument is increasing.
Annual increase rate is more than 30% and self-sufficiency rate can reach up to 40%~50% in the following two or three years. It is a new period full of opportunities in the future ten years. Overseas PCB instruments occupy large market share China has the most PCB production value and the most enterprises in the world, but the key supporting industries are underdeveloped. China PCB equipment industry features late development, low grade and little technology content. Mid-range equipment can replace the imported products but high-end devices are monopolized by foreign companies. In 2010, the volume of domestic PCB instrument occupies only 23.2% of the total PCB production value 125.2 billion yuan, almost 80% is occupied by foreign equipment (Prismark data). Domestic PCB instrument is developing rapidly Investment of domestic PCB instrument is increasing and part of special instruments and equipment become stronger, with breakthrough in core technology and more and more professional products. It is worth mentioning that some high-end domestic instruments and equipment have entered several leading PCB enterprises home and abroad.
Source : fedevel Technical trend of domestic PCB instrument The development trend of PCB industry is high density, high integration, fine line, small-bore, large capacity, light and thin making. The technical content and complexity level is improving and the manufacture becomes more difficult. Most PCB manufacturing has to rely on advanced PCB instrument and has higher and higher requirements for the instruments and equipment. New generation PCB instruments and equipment tend to be intelligentized and automotive, with production efficiency several times of the current.
It is impossible to produce high-end HDI, FPC and IC substrate without high-end instruments and equipment. Generally speaking, there is still a great lack of high-end instruments and equipment in China, leading to incomplete PCB industrial chain. So Chinese PCB instrument enterprises need to put more into research and train and bring in professional technical personnel so as to promote the performance quality of domestic PCB instrument as well as the average level of national PCB instrument. Future trends of domestic PCB instrument Due to the late development of Chinese PCB industry, it has a certain gap when compared to Japan, Europe and America as well as Taiwan. It is a key point to promote the development of domestic PCB instrument, which is significant to national PCB industry development. As released by chinabgao.com, the current Chinese PCB industry is under period of adjustment. However, with numerous manufacturing bases of electronic terminal products, mainland China is undoubtedly the largest production region in the world. The estimated total output value is 28.972 billion dollar, 44.13% of the global total value.
As a result, there is great demand of high-end PCB instrument and equipment in the future, which is a opportunity period for domestic PCB instrument enterprises. It is extremely urgent for research on high-end instrument and equipment. It is inevitable trend of national brands establishment and the increase market share of domestic instrument and equipment as long as it has similar performance quality since it has local environment advantages.