Analysis of Screen Printing Applications in Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing (7)

3. The rapid development of China's semiconductor manufacturing industry

According to the statistics released by the China Semiconductor Industry Association, China's semiconductor design industry grew by 108% in 2003. From January to June 2004, it achieved sales revenue of 2.383 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 64.9%. It is estimated that the annual sales in 2004 will be close to 10 billion yuan.

With the rapid expansion of production capacity of major wafer manufacturers, according to statistics from the China Semiconductor Industry Association, from January to June 2004, total integrated circuit production in China totaled 9.419 billion, an increase of 54.7% over the first half of 2003. The sales income was 7.38 billion yuan, an increase of 182.4% over the same period last year. In 2003, the sales revenue of IC packaging and testing industry in China was 24.6 billion yuan (RMB). In the first half of 2004, the packaging and testing industry maintained a steady growth momentum. In the first half of 2004, sales revenue reached 13.891 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.8% (Source: China Semiconductor Industry Association). PGA, BGA, MCM, CSP and other new packaging forms have begun to form capacity...

Dear friends of the screen printing industry, do you know that a large number of our screen printing industry colleagues are working in the semiconductor industry obscurity ... ...

4. The global SMT market enters the era of China, and China becomes the largest application country of SMT

At present, China has become the largest application country of SMT, accounting for 40% of global SMT equipment sales. The peak of the world's SMT market continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2000, dropping to 78% in the third quarter of 2001, and then slowly recovering overall in 2002 and 2003. However, Europe, the United States and Japan remained stable and there was no growth. The growth was In addition to Asia outside of Asia, 80% of this growth is in China!

According to an investigation by an authoritative organization, SMT equipment suppliers of globally renowned brands, including high-end screen printing presses, are unprecedentedly concentrated in China's South and East China regions. This peculiar phenomenon is unique in the world, and merchants from all over the world are in China. In the land of reform and opening up, it is blatantly and unambiguously plundering the SMT equipment market. It is an indisputable fact that China has become the largest SMT equipment market in the world.

In the past two years, overseas famous SMT screen printers, chip mounters, reflow ovens and other equipment suppliers have opened manufacturing plants in South China and East China and implemented localization strategies for SMT equipment manufacturing, indicating that these companies have long been optimistic about China and Asian market outlook.
The world-famous EMS electronics manufacturing service companies basically form the structure and layout of manufacturing bases in China.

All of the above points indicate that the global SMT market has entered the Chinese era.

In summary, an electronic screen printing market with good prospects and good returns is not highlighted before us. Is there anything more doubtful about this?

After we have thoroughly analyzed the market, let's talk about opportunities and challenges.

5. Opportunity

(1) China itself is a very large electronic screen printing market, and there is a huge demand for high-end screen printers. At present, high-end screen printers of domestic companies are almost all imported goods from Europe, the United States, and Japan. No need to worry about making high-end SMT screen printing presses no one wants. At the same time, standing at the height of the global electronic screen printing market, we believe that as long as it is to manufacture electronic screen printing products suitable for the needs of the electronic information industry, it is not impossible to enter the global markets such as Europe, America and Japan.

According to reports, a Chinese factory in Jiangsu Province, China, and a locally-famous Japanese company in the world (joint venture) in China jointly produced SMT screen printers in China. The printers were successfully put on the market in 2004, and their prices were only 2/3 that of similar foreign products. This powerful market price advantage indicates that China's high-end screen printer manufacturing industry has entered a new stage of development. From the author's point of view, although China's high-end screen press makers are not the same as today, as long as we are willing and willing to innovate, in time, China's high-end SMT screen printing press manufacturing industry will surely thrive and grow. The color TV market of China more than 20 years ago was the leading role of Japanese goods. At that time, the words “Matsushita, Sony, Toshiba” must be called. 20 years later, such high-quality color TV sets as Haier, Changhong, Skyworth, Hisense, and TCL not only steadily occupied the Chinese market, but also A large number of exports abroad, the sound of continents! Let us bless China's high-end SMT screen printer manufacturing industry to learn from China's color TV industry.

(2) China has a large number of engineering and technical personnel who have been involved in the electronic screen printing industry (including SMT, printed circuit boards, wafers, and packaging technologies) for many years, from the equipment to the technology of electronic screen printing. There is a very deep understanding and experience in all aspects of design, process and environmental design. In a word, there are no technical problems. This elite group of electronic screen printing technologies is the mainstay of electronic screen printing technology, including high-end screen printers in China.

6. Challenge

Because electronic screen printing technology has relatively high requirements for high-end screen printers, it is very difficult for screen printers who are interested in entering this industry. These difficulties include:

(1) Most Chinese screen printing equipment manufacturers and entrepreneurs lack an in-depth understanding of electronic screen printing technologies. Imagine that they have a clear understanding of electronic screen printing technologies and their bright future in a very short period of time. It is not realistic.

(2) The majority of China's screen printing manufacturing industry is poor in strength; there is no technical strength, equipment strength, financial strength, hastily entered is a taboo; I urge people with lofty ideals to be cautious and think twice before entering.

(3) Electronic screen printing technology belongs to the category of advanced manufacturing technology in the 21st century. It is a comprehensive high-tech that integrates many disciplines and is constantly developing. In the developed countries of the world, electronic screen printing technology is also a high-tech technology. Of course, this is no exception in our country. Therefore, the talent issue is a key issue that high-end screen printers must give priority to. There is not a large number of integrated The cooperation and hard work of the combat team composed of the scientific and technological elites of the professional screen printing technology with multidisciplinary knowledge, and the hope of success will be embarrassing.

Conclusion

In China, in the world, in addition to high demand for high-end screen printers in electronic screen printing technology, special functional inks such as silver paste, carbon paste, solder paste (lead-free printing material), copper paste, The annual demand for nickel pastes, insulating inks, and conductive printing materials and media printing materials for thick film printing technology is even greater. The trend is to increase year by year or even to a large extent with the rapid development of electronics and microelectronics technologies. Rising, does all this tell us that there are endless opportunities in electronic screen printing? The friends of the screen printing industry who are interested in the take-off of Chinese screen-printing technology and suffer from “the business is harder and harder to do today” are seeking to find a way out. Faced with endless opportunities for electronic screen printing, what are you waiting for? ?

Author: Xiong Xiangyu

Source: Wuhan Institute of Digital Engineering, China Ship Institute