The output value of Japan's PCB industry dropped 6.9% from a year earlier to JPY219.79 billion ($2.06 billion) in the first half of 2019, with that of the flexible PCB sector experiencing the largest 28.7% on-year fall, according to data compiled by the Japan Electronics Packaging Circuits Association (JPCA).
Japan's PCB industry also posted a 12% on-year decline in unit production in the first half of 2019, with the FPCB segment plunging 30.6% in unit production during the same period, said JPCA.