A&P Accelerates Shift of PCB Business to High Value-Added Structure...“Expanding High-Spec Applications in High-Growth Fields”

On February 19, A&P announced that it will shift its core automotive printed circuit board (PCB) business toward high-specification, high value-added products. The company plans to expand its business scope into the high-growth robotics industry to strengthen its competitiveness in PCBs for actuators.

Currently, the company’s main products are general-purpose automotive PCBs, which are centered on low-specification items and therefore have limited profitability. Considering the need to improve its profit structure and the growth trend within the industry, expanding sales of high-specification and high-layer-count products is essential. In particular, as vehicle electrification spreads rapidly, demand for high-specification PCBs is expected to continue to show strong growth.

Accordingly, the company is moving to invest in new facilities to enhance its ability to supply high value-added products. It plans to swiftly build production facilities for high-specification PCBs using funds raised through a third-party paid-in capital increase and its internal reserves. The company explained that, since it has already secured technology for high-layer-count and high-density products, it will be able to move quickly to mass production once the facilities are completed.

A&P will also accelerate its entry into the robotics sector based on the technology and track record it has accumulated in the automotive PCB business. Robots must operate reliably even in harsh environments, and they require compact and lightweight designs due to space and weight constraints, which gives them significant technological commonalities with automotive components.

A company representative stated, “To transform into a business structure focused on profitability, we are increasing the proportion of high-specification, high value-added products and ramping up facility investments,” adding, “Last year, we strengthened our fundamentals by promoting organizational efficiency through personnel restructuring and reassignments.”

The representative went on to emphasize, “This year, through active management activities such as expanding facility investments, we will make this a turning point where the results of our structural transformation become visible.”

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