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PCB Book-to-Bill Ratio Falls in August
September 30, 2004 |Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
Northbrook, Ill. — The IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries released today the findings from its monthly Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program.
The North American PCB book-to-bill ratio for August 2004 fell from 1.10 in July to 1.04, calculated by dividing the value of orders booked over the past three months by the value of sales billed during the same period for the companies in IPC's survey sample. IPC now is reporting separate statistics for the rigid PCB and flexible circuit segments of the industry, with a book-to-bill of 1.05 for rigid PCBs and 0.98 for flexible circuits. For these two segments combined, sales billed (shipments) in August 2004 increased 33.6 percent year-over-year, and orders booked increased 9.8 percent from August 2003.
For more information, visit www.ipc.org.