PCB Manufacturer from China: Analysis of the Status of Japanese PCB Industry Development

PCB Manufacturer from China As the "mother of electronic system products", PCB's industry has shifted with the transfer of global electronics manufacturing centers. PCB was born in the United States. Before the 1990s, the United States was the largest market for the PCB industry in the world, and its PCB production value accounted for 30% to 40% of the global total output value.

From the 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century, with the rise of Japanese electronics manufacturing, the global PCB industry quickly gathered in Japan. By 2000, Japan's PCB production accounted for 28% of the global total, while the US fell to 26%; 2001~2010 In the year, the global PCB industry moved again, and from Japan to Taiwan, the Taiwan PCB market began to rise rapidly. A number of global giants such as Jianding, Xinxing and Yuding appeared. After 2010, China’s cheap labor costs and high-speed economy The huge demand brought about by the development, the global PCB giants have come to China for investment layout, the PCB industry has also begun to shift from Taiwan to mainland China, and the Japanese PCB industry has further declined.

In 2017, the global PCB industry output value was 58.843 billion US dollars, an increase of 8.6%. Among them, the Japanese PCB production value was 5.255 billion US dollars, an increase of 0.04%. In 2017, Japan's PCB output accounted for only 8.93% of the global total, down nearly 20 points from 2000.

In 2017, the output value of PCB rigid board in Japan accounted for 64.6%, and the output of IC carrier board increased significantly.

From the perspective of Japanese PCB product structure, first of all, in terms of output, Japan's PCB production in 2017 was 14.65 million square meters, an increase of 3.0%. Among them, the rigid board realized a production of 1019.5 square meters, accounting for 69.66%. The output of all types of rigid boards increased to varying degrees, with the largest increase in single panel, 11.6%; the output of flexible board was 360.5 square meters, down 3.7% year on year, accounting for 24.63%; IC carrier board output was 256.2 square meters, up year-on-year. 21.5%, accounting for 17.51%.

Japan's PCB industry TOP5 companies are diversified. Future PCB business doubts

According to Prismark's latest ranking of the world's top 40 printed circuit board manufacturers in 2017, the top 5 PCB industry in Japan are NOK, Sumitomo, Fujikura, Ibiden, and Meiko. In 2017, revenues were 33.23, 11.34, 10.99, 9.73, and 94.7 billion, respectively, ranking second, eighth, ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth in the world.

However, from the main business and proportion of the top five PCB manufacturers in Japan, in addition to the famous, Qisheng, Sumitomo Electric, Fujikura, and Yufei are not pure PCB manufacturers, among which Sumitomo and Fujikura are the top five FPC manufacturers in the world. Its FPC business accounted for only 5% and 20%.

Therefore, the analysis believes that the global PCB industry is continuing to shift to the mainland of China, where PCB production value is over 50%, and the Japanese PCB industry's scale and global share continue to decline. The model will make its future investment in the PCB business field limited, and it is difficult to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage in the global PCB competition.