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Article: Message to North American PCB makers: focus your sales efforts on survival. (Market Outlook).
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- December 1, 2002
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The November IPC TMRC meeting in New Orleans was excellent. Every speaker provided useful content for these difficult times. Many focused on the new realities of the N. American PCB and EMS markets, including the timing and magnitude of the coming recovery, the impact of unit and price degradation, and the effect of the "Asian Shift" on our future available sales opportunities.
In his paper "Products, Technologies and Influences Shaping the Future of PCB Manufacturing," Phil Plonski of Prismark Partners provided an interesting analysis of the likely domestic PCB segments that will remain USA-made, "once the dust settles." He listed five categories/reasons PCBs ...