This year, mainland China authorities have once again brought about new measures to regulate the PCB industry. These new measures and regulations will start to take effect in February, requiring local PCB factories to strengthen their commitment to going green and protecting the environment. It is expected that these measures should help eliminate backward production capacity, steadily developing the industrial structures of PCB manufacturing. This will establish a trend of the major players being strengthened, which is conducive to the development of large PCB companies such as Zeng Ding, and Tripod Tech in mainland China.

 

        Zeng Ding is a global leader in the PCB industry, and its environmental protection policies have been established for many years. It regularly produces environmental information reports, publishes sewage treatment standards, commissions third-party testing for its emission results, and is recognized as the model for the trade. Most of all, its efforts have also been well accepted and applauded by Apple in the environmental report for its avant-garde environmental protection awareness, likely to benefit it the most.

 

        PCB’s have long enjoyed a reputation as being "the mother of all electronics," for all 3C products require a PCB. At present, both medium and high-end processes from major global PCB factories have concentrated their products across the strait. The policy changes in the mainland in recent years have concentrated on clearing up its sky to turn it blue again, as well as place restrictive measures on emissions, and these measures have actively encouraged the PCB industry to increase investment in green environmental protection and transformed the ecological development of the industry. Mainland China’s official policies have further encouraged industrial upgrades, with major factories in the mainland capital in southern China continuing to invest in environmental protection so that the major benchmark players of the Taiwanese PCB factories have also concurrently increased their investment in environmental protection.

 

        The mainland PCB industry recently held heated discussions as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the latest "Regulations for the Printed Circuit Board Industry" and the "Announcement of Interim Administration Measures for the Regulation of Printed Circuit Board Industry," which are scheduled to come into effect from February this year. Most of the PCB manufacturers across the strait are embracing the policy with a positive attitude. The regulations will raise the thresholds of entry into the industry and help stabilize the supply and demand of the market. Furthermore, these new regulations will include the production scale and process technology of PCB enterprises and their related investment projects, smart manufacturing, green manufacturing, safe production, and social responsibility, etc. As realized by the industry, the new policy is tantamount to helping the industry from blindly expanding production capacity, and further improving environmental protection requirements. (News source: Economic Daily)