The situation caused by the Corona virus continues to show its economic effects on the European electronics market. Eurocircuits as specialist in Prototype & Small Series is confronted with receiving significantly bigger orders than usual. This has massive impacts on our normally smooth production flow.

Due to this any new orders over 100dm2 will be only available on a 20WD delivery term, order <100dm2 will be available on our standard faster delivery terms.

Why 100dm2? – Over the last decade, the average size of a board has proved to be slightly smaller than 1dm2, therefore a 100dm2 order volume would allow an order of 100 boards on short term delivery. We hope this would be enough to help our customers meet their immediate requirements.

This is an extraordinary action due to an extraordinary situation for which we ask for your support and understanding.

Over the past 30 years European PCB production volume has fallen from over 40% to less than 3% of the world-wide volume, at the same time production volumes in China have grown to over 50% and this is where the problem starts.

With such a huge production volume located in one geographical area any disruption creates a massive vacuum in the supply chain, as can be seen now with the coronavirus. One cannot expect that if the 50% has problems that the 3% can take up the slack without any hindrance to anyone.

This is a temporary situation and we are hoping for your help to get through this stressy period. Be assured that once this situation is back to normal, we will revert to our normal delivery terms and inform you as soon it occurs.

Please note that this does not affect our PCB Proto service which still offers a 3WD standard delivery term.

We thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

Eurocircuits

20-02-2020