PCB (epoxy printed circuit board) related products are rising quickly after the Japanese earthquake.Earthquake will lead to a worldwide shortage of semiconductors and semiconductor price changes.According to issued investment information by the Japan External Trade Commission, there are many major semiconductor manufacturers from the epicenter of the Iwate gathered close to, including Toshiba's semiconductor manufacturing facility, Fujitsu and Motorola's semiconductor plant.Japan's earthquake affected heavily Iwate and Miyagi Prefecture, the two regions is the Toshiba camp. Toshiba's NAND factory and CMOS factory are located here, while Toshiba is the second largest manufacturers of NAND, so the earthquake is sufficient to drive the semiconductor chip prices skyrocketing, especially in memory chips.
Stop of the semiconductor industry led to a great extent on the chain of various products; such as CCL.CCL is material for PCB based on epoxy resin as the fusion agent and the copper foil laminated glass cloth,it is maken as PCB boards after etching, plating, multilayer laminated.CCL funds industry demand is not high, about 3000-4000 million, and can be discontinued at any time or converting.In the upstream and downstream industry chain structure, CCL has strongest bargaining power, not only in the glass cloth, copper and other raw materials procurement, and as long as the downstream demand is acceptable, you can pass the pressure of rising costs downstream PCB manufacturers.CCL is substrate material to make boards. It is used to support various components, and can achieve electrical connection between them or electrical insulation.If the device has electronic components, which are set in various sizes on the PCB. In addition to a variety of small parts is fixed, PCB's main function is to provide top of the electrical connections between components.