The development of FPC in 2017 that the PCB industry must know

The domestic FPC industry developed a little later, and sporadic FPC process research and development began in the late 1980s. Products are mainly used in military and high-end electronic production. In the early 1990s, the development of electronic products in mainland China was slow, and the development of the FPC industry was slow. In the late 1990s, affected by factors such as the acceleration of FPC technology advancement and the continuous transfer of the electronic product industry to mainland China, the demand for FPC was rapid and the industry began to explode.

According to the number of layers, FPC can be classified into single-layer FPC, double-layer FPC, and multi-layer FPC; the related manufacturing technology is based on single-layer FPC manufacturing technology and is realized by lamination technology. After the 1990s, electronic products developed in the direction of lightness and thinness, and the characteristics of FPC products were consistent with it. It was able to follow the rapid growth of the electronics industry and the continuous expansion of application fields. It was widely used in most electronic products and became the most important in the field of electronic products. One of the components.

1. The development status of the global industry

Since 2005, smart electronic products have gradually become popular. As the most suitable printed circuit board for smart electronic products, FPC has become one of the biggest beneficiaries in the development of the smart electronics industry. Its application fields have continued to expand and become the fastest growing PCB type, the proportion of PCB market is increasing. The data shows that in 2012, the world's total PCB output value was affected by the slowdown in the global economic recovery and only increased by 2.56% compared to 2011. However, FPC increased by 23.62% year-on-year, accounting for 17.72% of the total output value (the proportion increased from 2011) 3.02%), second only to rigid-flex board in the main PCB types, ranking second. In 2013 and 2014, after experiencing rapid growth in 2012, the growth rate of the global FPC market slowed down, but the growth rate was still higher than the overall growth rate of PCB.

In 2015, the global PCB output value reached 57.628 billion U.S. dollars, a decrease of 4.19% from 2014. Excluding exchange rate and price changes, PCB output actually increased by 1% in 2015, while FPC still increased by 6.08% year-on-year, reaching 11.842 billion U.S. dollars .

As of 2015, the global FPC market was approximately 11.842 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 20.55% of PCBs. By 2017, the world's total PCB output value is expected to reach 65.7 billion U.S. dollars, of which FPC output value will reach 15.7 billion U.S. dollars, and its proportion in PCB output value will further rise to 23.90%, becoming the fastest growing sub-industry in the PCB industry.

2. Global FPC Industry Distribution

The global FPC manufacturers are dominated by Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Among the top ten FPC companies in the world in 2015, companies from these three countries and regions accounted for 9 seats, with obvious advantages in scale.

On the other hand, due to the increasing production costs in developed countries and the increasing freedom of international trade, the FPC industry is gradually shifting to countries or regions with certain technical strength and low production costs such as China. Large international FPC manufacturers have invested in domestic factories. Therefore, despite the small scale of domestic FPC companies, the FPC output value in China is in a leading position in the world. The WECC report shows that in recent years, the ratio of China's FPC output value to global output value has continued to increase, from 6.74% in 2005 to 47.97% in 2015, and this ratio is likely to be maintained in the future.

3, the status quo of the domestic FPC industry

According to the report, since 2006, although the growth of China's FPC production value has slowed down or even decreased in individual years, it has shown an overall upward trend. In 2015, China's FPC production value reached 35.322 billion yuan, with a compound growth rate of 9.48% in 9 years.

The output value of domestic FPC has been rising continuously, accounting for nearly 50% of the global FPC output value, but most of the output value is occupied by joint ventures and foreign-funded enterprises. Joint ventures and foreign-funded enterprises rely on the strong R&D strength of the parent company and a complete upstream and downstream industrial chain, and have obvious advantages in technology and production capacity.

Since most of the important upstream raw materials and downstream electronic product manufacturers are foreign manufacturers, and a complete national industrial chain has not been formed in China, domestic manufacturers are limited by insufficient equipment and raw materials and other industries, and their competitiveness in the international market is relatively weak. In the domestic market, the overall market share is low. However, some domestic-funded enterprises represented by issuers have benefited from the rapid development of the local electronic product industry in recent years. Through their own technological improvements, increased production capacity, and good cooperative relations with domestic customers, the domestic market share has increased accordingly, and the technical level and production The gap between scale and foreign-funded enterprises is constantly narrowing.

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