Japan’s Rebounding Will Affect Your Bottom Line

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Japan just announced that it will resume production at all of its automotive plants, but that production will be running at 50% (until the end of April when they again shut plants down due to a week long holiday).  That is because they are having problems securing proper quantity of parts. This is going to drive demand for electrical components up, especially in the manufacturing of electric and hybrid cars.  In addition, Japan also just announced that schools will resume.  In this electronic age, students are big a demographic using electronic consumer products like PCs, tablets, and cell phones.  This will only increase the demand on electrical manufacturers to find already scarce electrical components.

On a more direct note, as Japan comes back ‘on-line’, companies thinking long term with modest cash holdings are being aggressive , acquiring as much electronic component stock as possible.  Japan is a big factor in many steps in the production of discrete components and in the near future, bismaleimide-triazine (BT) resin which is used in the production of attaching electronic chips to printed circuit boards and silicon substrate used in display glass, semiconductor equipment, and aluminum HD equipment will be untraditionally hard to find.  Japan supplies more than 80 percent of BT resin and 50 percent of silicon substrate.  All this speculation is, unfortunately, optimistic thinking because of the pending nuclear crisis which has yet to fully effect power and water supplies, and logistics.  Save time and money, get your shortage needs here.