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The development of projection type capacitive touch panel market to promote the development of toughened glass

Beijing time 17 month 2, China's touch screen network, the use of glass touch panel with tempered glass market, with projected capacitive touch panel market growth is expected to continue to grow in the future.

2013 projection type capacitive touch panel with tempered glass market size, is expected to increase by 8.997 compared to 2012, 33.2%, is expected to reach 11.984. 2014 smart phone and tablet PC market will continue to grow two digit growth trend, while the use of projected capacitive touch panel products have increased, so the market size in 2014 will reach 14.996, is expected to grow 25.1%. And by 2017, the total market demand is expected to reach 19.693.

Recent digital cameras, PMP, PND and other applications of the product is being eroded by smart phones and tablet PCs, the market size of its body is gradually reduced. In such a market situation, toughened glass on the touch panel module still occupy more than 30% of the cost, so in order to reduce the cost in 4 inches below the products using PC / PMMA plastic material cover lens products gradually increased, and this has become the future growth of toughened glass stone of stumbling.

With more than 10 inches of notebook computer, PC LCD, MNT Industrial, AIO and other applications in the product of projected capacitive touch panel gradually increase the proportion of large size tempered glass in 2013 showed a high growth of 273.5%. And in 2014 is expected to reach 55.7% of the high growth trend, and this two digit high growth will continue until 2017. Only, although the large size tempered glass continued to show high growth potential, but the overall size of the overall product market size of the laptop and PC AIO, etc., far less than the smart phone and tablet PC market, so the future of small and medium sized steel market will occupy more than 95% market share.

In 2013 the application of product area market, mobile phones and tablet PCs are 43.3% and 36% of the share of the overall market share of 79.3%, leading the development of the whole industry, and in 2017 these two products will be 45.3% and 25.8% of the total share of 71.1%, its market share will exceed half a percent.

Moreover, the size of the notebook panel with a touch panel area, in 2013 the market share of 7.2%, while in 2017 will increase to 11.1%, while the PC AIO and LCD display with touch panel 3% and 2.9% from 2013, to 2017 increased to 4.4% with 6.6%, showing a rapid growth trend.

Toughened glass industry has a low level of automation and relies on a large number of labor intensive industrial characteristics, so the operator's proficiency and experience, will affect the whole process and yield. Chemical tempering process can be described as one of the most important core technology in the production of toughened glass, according to different material of the glass, need to adjust the formula and temperature, also need to adjust the time of ion exchange. And then according to the depth of the stress layer of the glass, it is needed to choose the best technological method in the process of cutting, grinding, polishing and other physical processes. As well as the tolerance of the border print, the uniformity of surface printing, etc., it is difficult to achieve more than 80% of the yield by the human factor.

With the continuous improvement of the touch panel industry, the touch panel enterprises in order to strengthen their competitiveness, the recent commitment to develop G2, G1F, G1 and other tempered glass integrated touch panel, and through vertical integration of toughened glass to improve the price competitiveness. However, the industry development trend, the manufacturers in the tempered glass manufacturing process, such as the low level of control, and can not ensure the higher yield. Therefore, for the vertical integration of toughened glass production capacity, and the development of toughened glass integrated touch panel enterprises, such as the production process on the glass side of the production process is not deep, may be tempered glass integrated touch panel development will not be easy to achieve better results.

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