IPC book-to-bill: rigid strong, flex slipping.BANNOCKBURN Bannockburn (băn`əkbûrn', băn'əkbûrn`), moor and parish, Stirling, central Scotland, on the Bannock River. Textiles are manufactured in the parish. , IL -- The North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. rigid PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. industry book-to-bill ratio Book-to-Bill Ratio The technology industry's demand-to-supply ratio for orders on a "firm's book" to number of orders filled. Notes: This ratio tells whether the company has more orders than it can deliver (if greater than 1), has the same amount of orders that it can for March 2006 remained strong at 1.14, but the North American flexible circuit book-to-bill ratio dipped to 0.94. These ratios are based on monthly data collected from PCB producers that participate in IPC's monthly PCB Statistical Program. The combined (rigid and flex) industry book-to-bill ratio in March 2006 was 1.13. Some analysts find the separate ratios for rigid and flex more meaningful than the combined ratio, because of the divergence divergence In mathematics, a differential operator applied to a three-dimensional vector-valued function. The result is a function that describes a rate of change. The divergence of a vector v is given by in recent years between the rigid PCB and flexible circuit segments of the industry in growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. and book-to-bill patterns. The ratios are calculated by dividing the value of orders booked over the past three months by the value of sales billed during the same period from the companies in IPC's survey sample. A ratio of more than 1.00 suggests that current demand is ahead of supply, which indicates probable near-term near-term adj. Of, for, or involving a short period of time in the near future. growth. Rigid PCB shipments are up 10.1% and bookings are up 15.3% in March 2006 compared to March 2005. Year to date, rigid PCB shipments are up 7 % and bookings are up 16.2%. Rigid PCB shipments from the survey sample increased 14.6% from the previous month and rigid bookings increased 10.4% from the previous month. Flexible circuit shipments in March 2006 were up 0.4% and bookings were up 6.4% over March 2005. Year to date, flexible circuit shipments are up 7.7% and bookings are down 11.7%. Compared to the previous month, flexible circuit shipments from the survey sample increased 22.6% and flex bookings increased 77%. For rigid PCBs and flexible circuits combined, industry shipments in March 2006 increased 9.4% from March 2005, and orders booked increased 14.7% from March 2005. Year to date, combined industry shipments are up 7.1% and bookings are up 14.3%. Combined industry shipments for March 2006 are up 15.1% over the previous month, and bookings are up 13.1% over the previous month. |
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