REPORT ON DELEGATION TO CPCA 2007

As per the decision of the Executive Committee Meeting held on the 20th of January 2007, IPCA has organized a delegation to China to understand the technological advancements, its current PCB industry scenario and to understand China’s competitive advantages in Electronics Hardware business, so as to add on to the experience and the technological information we have already gained during the past three visits to CPCA Show in the previous years. The delegation visited China between 19th March 2007 to 24th March 2007.
 

Total 24 people participated in the delegation as annexed in the list attached. (Download File)

Visits were arranged to four firms on two days before the CPCA Show as given below thanks to the arrangements made through the efforts and contacts of our office bearers.

19^th March  2007

The following firms were visited:

 SHANGHAINANYA:

 EUCON GROUP: ( Shanghai Zhuo Kai Technology co. Ltd)

The visit to this PCB manufacturing company was arranged through the courtesy of M/s Shanghai Nanya. It is a medium size, double sided and multilayer boards’ manufacturing PCB company. Another group of the same company was a visited by us during the last delegation to China as understood. A copy of the power point presentation they have made on the manufacturing and technical aspects on receipt from them (as promised) will be circulated to members.

20th March  2007

 INTECH—Intech Machines Co. Ltd. In SUZHOU

This is one of the leading Taiwanese Machine manufacturing company for wet processing machines in PCB manufacturing, meeting the requirements of such machines and competing with the other traditional machinery in the global market. Around 750 employees are working in the factory.

This visit was arranged through the courtesy of M/s Nica Tehcnology, Singapore and M/s Nica India

APCB – a bulk volume PCB manufacturing company

They manufacture double sided and Multilayer boards including that required for HDI interconnect technology. Their turn over is around 140 thousand square meters per month of quality PC boards up to 42 layers. (including their prototype requirements of higher counts). Mostly they manufacture 24 layer boards in bulk.

An interesting point to note was that most of the PCB manufacturing machinery (around 95 %) installed in their unit for continuous operation are all from Taiwan based companies, with their own developed technology and machines for the successful manufacture of such a huge volume of PCBoards per month, employing around 1000 people.

This visit was again arranged through the courtesy of M/s Nica Technology Group.

With the grand opening of the Show (participated by IPCA in the Ribbon Cutting ceremony by our Vice President Mr. Bhulani) on 21st March 2007, the Show started  off well and continued till 23^rd March 2007.

This year the CPCA Show was organized in the new Exhibition Centre located in Pudong near the airport, well connected with buses arranged by the authorities and the nearby metro.

We could successfully make a good publicity for our Expo 2007 through the distribution of the brochures in the stalls as well as by personal visit to each and every booth, meeting them, handing out the brochure and inviting them to participate in our Expo. There has been a good indication of their probable presence by many of them in our Expo and further follow up is being done through emails to confirm their participation. A few companies from China, Taiwan and Korea have already sent emails to us, looking out for taking booths in our Show.

We could establish closer interactions with all the WECC members representing all the world PCB industry through personal contacts, mutual discussions etc. and we enjoyed a very good response from all our sister industry Associations and they have assured all support to our event this year. Enough copies of brochures were given to WECC members for their circulation among their members in addition to our regular emails being sent to them for further follow up, maintaining the same mutual relationship.

Participation in the WECC Committee meeting in Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition international Hotel:  on the 21^st afternoon.

Being one of the eight industry association members of WECC, the Vice President Mr. Prasad Kamath and the Secretary General of IPCA attended the WECC Committee meeting, representing IPCA. Apart from the routine scheduled business for the meeting, the important points in the Agenda discussed are as given:

 ECWC 11— The eleventh Electronic World Convention

The 11 the Electronic World Circuits Convention, formerly known as ‘World PCB Convention’ is being hosted and organized by CPCA, to be held next year March 2008 with the technical convention projecting the concept, ENVIRONMENT AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE as the theme of the convention. The details and the programmes for the convention were discussed with the comments/suggestions by the other association on various activities connected therewith. The dates for holding the convention was finalized and it will be held for three days from 17,19 March 2008, to be followed by the CPC Show 2008 from 19-21, the convention overlapping as a parallel event for one day.. All the members agreed finally to these dates unanimously.

Also the last date for receiving the abstracts for the Convention was extend up to April 27^th, 2007. The detailed brochure on the ECWEC 11 has already been sent to all our members a month back and there is a response that three of our members have come forward to submit the abstracts for the presentation of their papers in this world convention with in the last date.

 THE DATE & VENUE FOR THE NEXT WECC COMMITTEE MEETING:

Based on the earlier proposal and request we have made in the previous WECC meeting held in Japan represented by our IPCA President, Mr. Anil Kumar that the next WECC meeting be held in India along with IPCA Expo, the matter was  brought in to discussion by the Secretary General of WECC, Mr. David Bergman to confirm the venue and probable period of time.

All the members have unanimously agreed that the next meeting be held in India according to our convenience. We have proposed that to be held next year 2008 along with our Expo 2008, mostly in the month of August or beginning of September depending on our finalizing the Expo dates and informing and informing the WECC Secretariat, in USA. This was agreed by one and all and we are happy to keep all our members informed that we will host WECC Committee Meeting next year, an international event with the participation of all members of WECC, the global PCB industry Associations.

PRESENTATION OF ORGANISATIONAL REPORT AND THEIR INDUSTRY STATUS BY ALL WECC MEMBERS

The Organisational report of our Association & PCB industry status was already submitted to the WECC Secretariat for circulation and the same was presented in the WECC Meeting minutes along with that of the other members of WECC. A copy of the same is annexed herewith for the

information to our members as well. (Download File)

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

We are thankful to the Executive Committee of IPCA for having decided to take a delegation to CPCA Show this year also. We are extremely grateful to all the twenty-four of our IPCA members who have responded to our call and to have joined our delegation to be with us for a successful representation, participation, presentation and publicity in all the areas of contact required by us in CPCA Show 2007, which participation really made IPCA ‘s presence felt a little more intensely, with specific emphasis on of our Industry Show, so as to make the event IPCA Expo 2007 a great and grand success, in addition to deriving the mutual and cordial relationship we have enjoyed with the world PCB community.

We must acknowledge with gratitude the excellent way our coordinator and Vice President of IPCA, Mr. Bhulani has organized this tour of delegation to CPCA, boarding and lodging in a very good Indian restaurant, visits to factories with the additional help and good offices of Mr.Selvaraj, our Treasurer etc., taking care of every minute detail for all our programmes, trips during all the seven days, right from landing in China airport in the midnight of 18^th and arriving back to India on the 24^th of March 2007.

R. Chellappa

Secretary General

Indian Printed Circuit Association