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Taiwan's Flex Companies Cluster in East China
November 30, 2006 |Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
TAIPEI, Taiwan A group of specialized Taiwan-based manufacturers and suppliers of flexible copper-clad laminate (CCL) materials formed a flex PCB industry cluster to expand into the China market. Production plants in China could enable Taiwan-based companies to directly ship products to downstream customers.
ThinFlex Corp. and Taiflex Scientific Co., Ltd., Microcosm Technology Co., Ltd., and other Taiwan-based flexible CCL companies have plants in the Suzhou, China, area. Smaller-scaled material makers are also moving to eastern China. A group of PCB manufacturing and processing companies offering computer-numeric-control (CNC) hole-drilling, SMT assembly, and electro-plating services have formed an integrated manufacturing cluster in the region.