Compared with the same month of last year, North American hard PCB shipments grew by 13.6% in October, but orders declined by 2.7%. In the first 10 months of 2010, North American hard PCB shipments grew by 19.5% over the same period of last year. The number also grew by 25.4%. In terms of flexible circuit board, shipments in October grew by 14.7% from the same month of last year, and the volume of orders also increased by 25.2%.
From January to October this year, shipments of North American flexible circuit boards grew by 11.0% over the same period of last year, and orders volume grew by 19.4%. However, compared with the previous month, shipments of flexible circuit boards and orders decreased respectively. 18.6% and 10.9%. In October, the North American soft circuit board order shipment ratio was 1.
As a whole, North America's total orders for soft and hard circuit boards shipped in October was 0.99. Shipments in the month rose by 13.7% from the same month of last year, but orders declined by 0.8%; compared with September, shipments and orders The amount of each recession was 14.7% and 20.3%. From January to October 2010, cumulative shipments of North American circuit boards grew by 18.8% from the same period of last year, and the volume of orders grew by 24.9%.
North American PCB market sales performance has gradually grown, and has recovered to the level before the global financial storm hit the industry, in October 2008; IPC chairman and CEO Denny McGuirk said: In the past 5 months, North America PCB orders shipping ratio Both showed a downward trend, and the pace of growth of orders also slowed down, indicating that the recovery of the economy has come to a period of stagnation.
IPC's order-shipment ratio calculation method is to divide the amount of factory orders in the past three months by the manufacturer's shipment amount in the same period, and the order-shipment ratio is greater than 1, which means that the current demand is higher than the supply, indicating the market's future two Sales growth up to three months. Currently in North America, hard PCB market share is 89% of the overall PCB market.
Market Recovery Remains Sluggish North American PCB Order Shipment Deteriorates
According to the latest statistics from the American Electronics Industry Connection Association, the book-to-bill ratio of the North American hard printed circuit board (PCB) industry fell to 0.98 in October 2010; shipments of hard PCBs in the month declined by 14.3 from the previous month. %, orders also decreased by 21.1% from the previous month.