Down the Slippery Slope Again

The Electronica Show in Munich has ended and the Pronic Exhibition in Paris is now a thing of the past. As I write this article we are on the run‐up to Christmas and the days are getting shorter and colder. A year ago I went to press with an article called ‘Towards a Busier 1988’ and it seems that many of the predictions made in that article have come to pass. Across the world of printed circuits (I hesitate to say ‘circuit world’ for obvious reasons) the industry has seen healthy growth in most of the major world economies. The United States has enjoyed some significant increases in activity with both the board shops and the laminators working hard to keep up with the predicted increases in demand which came through in the earlier months of the year.