Rex Rosario, the EIPC President, reported during the EIPC conference in Rome, Italy last week, that in China The Italian-British jointly owned company Somacis-Graphic are now producing 30-layer multilayer boards with 97.8% yields after four months in production, and flex/flex-rigid boards are also in production. They will break-even in the next 3-4 months, so within the first year of manufacture. Rex was confident for the future in spite of a shaky start to the year.