Looking at China's silk screen printing ink development from PCB ink sales war (3)

2. Comparison of imported brands and national brands

The concept of "imported brands are better than national brands" is already out of date. Generally speaking, imported brands and domestic brands are on a starting line, and there are a considerable number of national brands whose sales have been higher than imported brands. However, it should also be noted that certain ethnic enterprises are often unable to keep up with the pace of the times and hinder their development and progress. They are also mainly affected by the following factors:

1 The poor compatibility of raw materials affects product performance and requires optimization and reprocessing.
2 The basic material technology has a certain gap with the developed countries, and the development rate is lagging behind, unable to meet the market requirements;
3 outdated equipment, weak funds, can not process fine products;
4 The lack of confidence in the product's fine engraving. Among the imported brands, there are also a certain number of inferior products, which are mainly manifested in the fact that the process conditions are tolerant; the storage stability is poor and the odor is too great; technical services cannot keep up.

V. PCB ink sales war

The use of sales wars to describe the competition in the PCB ink market is not excessive, and the prelude to the war has already begun in 2000 and has continued to this day. Optical imaging resisting plating resisting inks and photo-imaging solder masking inks, a large number of national brands influx into the market in 1998. After a sharp increase in imported brands, after the incomplete statistics, by the end of 2004, they participated in the war of optical imaging resisting plating and electroplating ink brands. It has been increased to 54 and the brand of optical imaging solder mask ink has been increased to 50.

National brands, imported brands, coupled with distributors, agents, and sales outlets, formed an unprecedented sales network. With the emergence of oversupply, the PCB market has begun a price war on self-independence. At the end of 2003, 60 to 70 yuan/kg of ink were competed and killed. The downward trend in prices during the years of sales wars.

Now, despite the ink price war is still continuing, but in recent years, with the rising price of ink raw materials, the price war has come to an end. Ink merchants are working hard to change the situation of price wars and work hard on service quality and variety, especially technical services.

VI. Environmental and Future of PCB Ink

In the field of PCB inks, UV series inks are environmentally friendly products in use. Now let's explore environmental measures for PCB inks other than the UV series.

1. Strengthen PCB use environment

In PCB inks other than the UV series, a certain amount of solvent is contained, and in use, some diluents are often added to adjust the viscosity. In the use environment of PCB inks, large and small enterprises vary widely. In large-scale enterprises, in order to maintain the quality and effectiveness of operation, some spend hundreds of thousands of clean rooms, while small and medium-sized enterprises are different. Some of the better ventilation or air supply equipment, generally only sealed rooms, caused serious environmental pollution and caused harm to the operators.

2. Solvent addition and application should be legislation

As early as 1996, countries such as Sweden, France, the United States, and Australia successively issued laws and regulations that severely restricted the addition of certain solvents. For example, benzene-containing hydrocarbons could not exceed 5%. China is not only a big producer of PCBs, but also a big country in ink applications, and the number of imported brands and domestic brands is also increasing year by year. The main solvents in these inks are relatively large in content of glycol ethers and glycol esters. The solution is only legislation: It is the inspection of the imported ink to enhance the toxic content; the second is to implement the access system for domestic ink. Our country has professional departments to identify, we can learn from their system regulations.

3. Ink company's responsibility and user's choice

Ink manufacturers should first use low-toxic solvents to make inks in order to reduce environmental pollution and harm to operators, such as alkanes, alcohols or turpentine, cellosolve, etc. According to international practice, a warning should be marked on the label of the package, indicating the name of the solvent and the safety precautions that the ink should take during operation, and emergency handling methods.

4. Efforts to develop non-toxic solvents

The continuous development of our country's economy and the improvement of living standards all require a fresh environment. The development of non-toxic solvents is imminent. Our ink manufacturers and experts are all working in different forms and in various ways to develop non-toxic solvents. Some non-toxic solvents developed by experts have already entered the trial phase and are believed to be quickly promoted in the ink industry in the future.

5.PCB ink war harvest

1 Bring our country's and international ink markets close to each other. At the CPCA exhibition in 2004, we saw that ink buyers in many countries have extended their hands to China, indicating that China's PCB inks also occupy a certain share in the international market;

2 PCB manufacturers have obtained more substantial benefits, increased the chances of selecting varieties, reduced production costs, and broadened the technological vision;

3 Ink manufacturers have further established the concept of market economy, trained sales personnel for them free of charge, and prepared for their products to enter the international market;

4 Improve China's PCB ink manufacturing technology, promote the improvement of related technologies and the development of related products, and lay a solid foundation for the development of the PCB industry towards higher goals. s

Source of information: pack.cn