FPC soft board unit price affected by what factors

FPC soft board is made of polyester film or polyester imine, light and thin, high density, high flexibility, can be bent and folded, with other types of circuit boards do not have the advantages. Compared to traditional interconnect technology, FPC flexible plate can withstand millions of bending, easy installation, good heat dissipation.

So, soft board price is affected by what factors?

1. FPC soft board selection of different materials resulting in different prices

For example, ordinary double-sided soft board, board materials generally have PI,PET, etc., plate thickness from 0.0125mm to 0.10mm, copper thickness from 1/3oz to 3oz, all these have caused a great price difference, at the same time, material manufacturers that is different brands also have a certain price difference. This is the price diversity of selection. The material also contains steel sheet, FR4,PIFCC copper foil reinforcement material auxiliary composition.

2.The process used for flexible velvet road board does not cause different prices

Different production processes also cause different costs, such as the use of gold, tin or OS P, the precision of the shape, the use of wet film line or dry film line will form different costs, resulting in different prices.

3.Mulberry circuit board itself technical difficulty caused by different prices

In the case of requirements and the same process, if we have different design difficulties of flexible circuit board itself, it will also cause different costs. As two kinds of circuit board a board hole, another in the normal range, drilling cost is also different, so formed unfinished lines, such as a line width line spacing greater than 0.1 MM, another is less than 0.1 MM, that will also cause the price difference, because of the difficulty big boards scrap rate is high and the cost will increase, the price is different.

4. Prices vary according to customer requirements

The level of customer requirements will directly affect the finished product rate of the board factory, for example, A board according to IPC-A-6013, the qualified rate of 98%, but according to the requirements of class3 may only be 90% of the qualified rate, resulting in different costs of the board factory, and finally lead to variable product prices.

5. Flexible circuit board manufacturers caused by different price diversity

Even if the same product, but because of different process equipment, technical level, also can form different cost, nowadays a lot of manufacturers like gold plated board production, because the process is simple, low cost, but also a part of the factory production of gold plated board, scrapping the rise, cause cost increase, so they prefer to produce tin plate or tinplate, so their tin plate rather than plating quotation Gold plate.

6. The difference in price between different payment methods

At present, the flexible circuit board factory generally adjusts the price of the flexible circuit board according to the different payment methods, and the range is 5%-10%, which also causes the difference in price.

7. Prices vary by region

At present, in terms of geographical location in China, prices are increasing from south to north, and there are certain differences in prices in different regions, so regional differences also cause price diversity.

8. The price caused by different electroplating methods is not the same

Local plating high overall plating about 15%.

9.Gold finger part of the surface treatment

Gold plating and tin plating difference of about 5%

10. The unit price of FPC is determined by the defect rate in FPC production

11. The unit price of FPC is also determined by SMT cost and defect rate