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Citation
(1999), "IPC releases book-to-bill ratios for November 1998", Circuit World, Vol. 25 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/cw.1999.21725bab.012
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
IPC releases book-to-bill ratios for November 1998
USA
IPC releases book-to-bill ratios for November 1998
Keywords Book-to-bill, IPC, Printed circuit boards, USA
IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries has released the US printed wiring board industry book-to-bill ratio for November 1998. The book-to-bill ratio for November 1998 was 0.97 (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 IPC bulletin board for
November 1998
Sales billed (shipments) in November 1998, decreased 9.0 percent over November 1997 and orders booked for November 1998 showed a decrease of 13.4 percent over November 1997.
As compared with 1997, 1998 bookings of PWBs are down 2.7 percent year-to-date, while 1998 shipments of PWBs are up 0.6 per cent year-to-date.