Research and Development Trend Forecast of China Touch Panel Market, 2013-2017

At present, China has nearly 300 manufacturing enterprises of touch panel; in 2012, the market scale of China's touch panel industry reached CNY 19.046 billion with year-on-year growth of 62.34%. The Chinese domestic enterprises gradually perfect the industrial chain of touch panel and achieve the localization substitution, which has entered the fields of touch panel, solution programs, key equipment, key materials and touch IC etc. For the upstream material enterprises, such as glass, target materials and ITO film etc., they have achieved the breakthrough to the monopoly of Japan and South Korea's enterprises, the touch screen lamination promoting the integration progress of industrial chain. Especially in the Pearl River Delta region represented by Shenzhen and Dongguan, the materials needed by the smart terminals have achieved the domestic autonomy, such as glass, driving IC chips, processing equipments, ITO film and other materials. 

For recent years, with the emergence of smart phones and tablet PCs, the touch panel market has got the rapid development; in 2008-2012, the shipments of China's touch panel showed rapid growth trend and the average annual growth rate was over 40% during that period with rapid development in the industry. In 2012, China's shipments of touch panel were 426.64 million pieces with year-on-year growth of 71.53%. 

In 2013, the touch panel industry still keeps the rapid growth and the market of ultra-book and non-Apple smart phones is the largest highlight of the touch market. The explosion of market demand for ultrabooks is the major factor of the demand growth for touch panel market in 2013. The explosion of market demand for ultrabooks is the main factor of the market demand increase for touch panel in 2013. Win8 brings in the booming large screen market of touch panel as well as stimulating the prospect of the ultrabook market. But as 2013 is the first year for the development of ultrabook, in order to promote the products, the terminal brands intensify the proportion of ultrabook touch panel. 

Under the stimulation of Windows8, as the proportion of shipments of touch laptops and all in one personal computers (AIOPC) is continuously promoted, the market demand for small-and medium-sized touch panel increases continuously. From 2012 to 2015, the composite annual growth rates (CAGRs) of touch laptops and AIO, and will respectively reach 11% and 43.7%. We can see that the market demand for small-and medium-sized touch panel modules will be stronger and stronger. Under the stimulation of market expectation effects, the touch modules manufacturers, including TPK Holdings Co., Ltd.,  Wintek Corp. and Shenzhen Laibao High-Tech Co., Ltd., have sequentially increase the strength to expand the production and are committed to the development of clients of smart phone, tablet PC and PC brands. In addition, the demand of tablet PCs, touch laptops etc. for the one-stop delivery of touch panel modules and display modules full lamination is increasing obvious and urgent. 

As the market capacity is large and the consumption aspects are wide in China mainland, many manufacturers have their own market segments. At present, the manufactures focusing on the products of resistive touch panel such as Sun Well Solar, Guangzhou Huayi Circuit Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Huayi Opl. & Electro. Technology Co., Ltd., Top Touch Electronics Co., Ltd. and Wosen Electronic (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. etc. are committed to the expansion of touch panel, touch panel manufacturing in the midstream of the industrial chain so as to keep their own market share as much as possible, while the mainstream manufacturers of touch panel such as CSG Holding Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Laibao High-Tech Co., Ltd. and Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. make the R & D of OGR touch panel to ensure the leading position in the touch panel market.