LED PCB raw material prices tide from the second half of last year in the LED industry spread, this trend seems to open in 2017 and didn’t stop the trend.

Into 2017 only less than 1 month, PCB board has gone through a round of price increases, it’s understood that PCB plate prices in this round of tide prices rose again 5%. As the new production capacity of electrolytic copper foil, the production cycle takes 2-3 years, so in the next 1-2 years, CCL and PCB with copper shortages will be normal.

According to market sources, from the first quarter of 2017, the PCB industry from the upstream equipment factory, raw material factory to the downstream manufacturers are showing off-season performance is not short.

First, the proportion of automotive electronics with the cardboard increased from 0.5 ㎡of copper foil substrate rose to 2㎡; Second, the second half of the Apple iPhone8 will be used to select the new line width, line spacing smaller “class board” (Substrate Like-PCB, referred to as SLP) technology, which will replace the previous HDI PCB technology.

With the LED lighting penetration into the final accelerated rise, coupled with the LED small-footprint display demand continued to release, strong market demand, PCB industry, the market will gradually pick up for a long time.

As compared to communications, lithium batteries and automotive industry, LED industry on the PCB’s technical requirements are relatively low. In contrast, small and medium-sized PCB enterprises shuffle led to the overall capacity compression, manufacturers generally bet on the future production capacity in the communications, lithium batteries and automotive, Thus causing no significant impact on the LED PCB industry.

From the beginning of 2016, PCB standard copper prices have risen more than 50%, copper foil processing fees and effective CCL price than the original average were 100% and 50% higher. In early November 2016, the price of copper fell soared to 48,000 yuan/ton, due to the price of raw copper rose 26%, electrolytic copper prices driven by the processing fee transferred to the original copper price, the overall price of electrolytic copper has exceeded 110,000 yuan/ton, Mark. According to Taiwan media reported that in January 2017 copper foil processing fees and a small price increase.

There are industry companies frankly, “copper-clad plate production enterprises, a change in the past three or five months after the arrival of the habit of payment. With cash procurement of copper foil, copper prices rose 20 to 30%, have to line up orders Limited supply. “Sheet metal transactions generally 90 days to half a year, lithium battery demand after the emergence of some manufacturers to take cash to buy material phenomenon, indirectly caused by the vicious competition in the price rise in the PCB circuit board industry development of more than 30 years There is never been a thing.

Copper foil in the past 1 year in short supply, in March last year, the highest market share, the most influential CCL manufacturers Jedao first issued price notice, the other plate business have followed up, to stimulate the upstream and downstream supply chain is also comprehensive follow up.

Copper foil supply shortage also led to other raw materials rose rapidly, the industry came the news that CCL another main material fiberglass thick cloth may have to rise to 7 yuan / m, aluminum plate, light guide plate cumulative increase of about 20%, FR- 4 cumulative increase of more than 40%, plastic sheet, plastic pieces rose more than 10%, and even loaded with the carton also cash transactions.

Copper foil, CCL, and PCB manufacturers have long struggled in the bottom, who didn’t expect the car lithium battery turned out, this round of raw material rise cycle so fast and lasting, the price tide is more electronic copper production capacity to Lithium copper foil caused by lithium.

Global electronic copper production capacity is 41,000 tons per month, of which more than 8,000 tons have been discontinued. Japanese companies as early as three years ago has been out of the closure of electronic copper foil factory, converting high-speed plate dedicated copper foil, high-frequency special copper foil, copper foil package, a soft board dedicated copper foil. In the entire supply chain, there are about twelve thousand tons of electronic copper foil is gone. At present, whether it is a new copper foil business or the old copper business, they carried out all of the expansion, all around the lithium battery to expand production.

Besides, the communications industry’s new demand for PCB is beginning to brew. According to the world’s major operators of the public schedule, 5G of commercial time may be further accelerated. It is understood that in 2018 the Korean Winter Games, South Korean operators will provide 5G service in advance. Verizon in the United States has also been the first to determine the 5G band, the Tokyo 2008 Tokyo Olympic