PCB market back to normal in February 2011

The figures are 20.1% above those recorded for February 2010, but 4.2% below the record result of February 2008. The preliminary figures for March indicate further increasing turnover. Although order intake decreased sequentially by 6.5% and also YoY with 13%, order levels for February 2011 indicate a normalisation of order levels. The decline has to be seen in light of an enormous order intake during 2010 and a still large order backlog that needs to be processed. The book-to-bill ratio for February 2011 reached a value of 0.92. © ZVEI / Graphic with Zoom-Function The number of employees increased sequentially by 1.1%. YoY, staff numbers also increased - by 10%. With it, staff numbers are only slightly (3.2%) below that of pre-crisis February of 2008.