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.