Asia

Citation

(1999), "Asia", Circuit World, Vol. 25 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/cw.1999.21725cab.022

Asia

Asia

Keywords Asia, Electronics industry, Printed circuit boards

Japanese PCB sales and the comparison of sales and orders are shown in Figure 1 and Table I.

Figure 1 Japanese PCB sales (million Yen)

Table I

Comparison of PCB sales and orders. Percentage change from previous year

	IPC: United States				PCIF: United Kingdom						VDL: Germany					JPCA Japan
1998	Sales		Orders			Sales		Orders		Sales		Orders		Sales
January		23.5	11.4		4.4		11.7				52		30		3.4
February		7.3	11.2		­0.2		­8				16		39		1.01
March		2.9	­9.6		­4.4		­6.8				15		51		­6.1
April		2.5	­5.6		­5.8		­12				16		24		­10.04
May		­7.5	­6.5		­34		­46				30		30
June		­2.1	5								31		24
July		­3.2	4.5								34		27
August		8.3	18.3								17		26
September		9.9	1.1								­2		22
October		­0.2	­10		­5.3		­10				13		26
November		­9	­13.4		­7.6		­13.4				34		33
December		1.6	6.6		­4.26		­13.7

Source: IPC, PCIF, VDL and JPCA ­ figures available at 15/02/99