PCB News - ​China's PCB equipment will usher in a new era

1. Analysis of China's PCB Instrument and Equipment Market

According to G3 Comprehensive Report: There are about 2,800 companies in the PCB industry worldwide, and there are about 1,500 companies in the PCB industry in China, which is more than 50%. According to CPCA statistics, China’s PCB output value has been ranked first in the world since 2006, from 100 billion yuan in 2006, 116.3 billion yuan in 2007, to 21.636 billion US dollars in 2012, accounting for the total global PCB output value. 39.84% of the output value. In 2013, the PCB output value reached 159 billion yuan, about 22 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 41.4% of the global proportion.

Among them, PCB instrument equipment is an important module of this industry. With the steady development of the PCB industry in recent years, its development speed is driven by many factors such as foreign investment, the establishment of new enterprises, the technological transformation of old enterprises, and the expansion of old factories. Fast, the scale is gradually expanding, the domestic PCB equipment market is expanding rapidly, and the annual market capacity has exceeded 20% of the national PCB output value. The market size is expected to reach 48.8 billion yuan in 2015, and the average annual compound growth rate from 2010 to 2015 will reach 11.0%, which is significantly higher than the 7.5% growth level of the global market, showing the strong market growth potential of China's PCB equipment.

Synchronized with the continuous growth of PCB production value and the market expansion of equipment and equipment, the market share of domestic PCB equipment is also gradually expanding, with an annual increase of more than 30%, and the self-sufficiency rate is rising rapidly. In two or three years, it is estimated that the self-sufficiency rate will rise to 40%~50%. In the next ten years, a new era full of opportunities will usher in.

2.1 Foreign PCB instruments and equipment occupy a large market

China's PCB production value is the largest in the world, and the number of enterprises is the largest in the world, but the key supporting industries such as the equipment, equipment and raw and auxiliary materials required for production are underdeveloped. The development of China's PCB equipment is very similar to the development of the PCB industry, and the characteristics are starting. Late, low-grade, low-tech, etc. Although low-end equipment can replace imports, high-end equipment and testing equipment are mostly foreign monopolies, and the self-sufficiency rate is low. In 2010, the scale of domestic PCB equipment only accounted for 23.2% of the total PCB output value of 125.2 billion yuan that year, and the market share of foreign equipment was about 80% (Prismark data).

2.2 Domestic PCB equipment is developing rapidly

Domestic PCB instrument equipment investment is increasing, some special instruments and equipment are becoming stronger, and related core technologies have made breakthroughs. Its products are getting better and better every year, and they are becoming more professional. It is worth mentioning that there are a number of high-end instruments in China. The equipment has entered a number of top PCB companies at home and abroad, and has successfully established a foothold, and the products have entered the forefront of related sub-fields in the world.

3. Technical trend of domestic PCB equipment

As the PCB industry gradually develops towards high density, high integration, fine lines, small aperture, large capacity, light and thin, the technical content and complexity continue to increase, and its production becomes more and more difficult, and many PCB production must rely on Advanced PCB instrument equipment, and the requirements for instrument equipment will become higher and higher.

The new generation of PCB instrument equipment not only has the functional requirements to complete the thin lines and small holes, but also becomes more intelligent and automated, and the production efficiency is increased by several times. A large number of PCB manufacturing technologies in the past have often been integrated into PCB special equipment and equipment. among.

Without high-end equipment, it is absolutely impossible to produce high-end HDI, FPC, and IC carrier boards. Although there are currently a small number of well-developed PCB special equipment companies in China, in general, domestic high-end equipment is still lacking, resulting in an incomplete PCB industry chain in China. Therefore, China's PCB equipment companies need to further develop, increase R&D investment, introduce and train professional technical personnel, improve the company's own level, improve the performance and quality of domestic PCB equipment, and improve the average level of domestic PCB equipment.

4, the future trend of domestic PCB equipment

Due to the late start of China's PCB industry, there is a certain gap compared with the development of Japan, Europe, America, Taiwan and other countries and regions. The vigorous development of domestic PCB equipment will become the focus and core of the development of China's national PCB industry in the future.

According to the "2013-2018 China Flexible Printed Circuit Board Market In-depth Analysis Report" released by the China Report Hall, China's PCB industry is currently in an adjustment period. However, with the cluster of downstream electronic terminal product manufacturing bases, mainland China will undoubtedly continue to become the world's largest production area. It is estimated that the total output value in 2017 will reach 28.972 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 44.13% of the total global PCB output value.

Therefore, the future demand for PCB high-end equipment is large. This is an opportunity period for domestic PCB equipment companies. The development of high-end equipment is imminent. As long as the performance and quality of domestic PCB equipment are similar, it is an inevitable trend to establish a national brand by virtue of the advantages of the local environment such as cost performance and after-sales service. The market share of domestic equipment is an inevitable trend.