Surface treatment industry new regulations landed, intelligent transformation spawned tens of billions of equipment upgrading market

In July 2024, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a new regulation: the electronic industry wastewater discharge limits are tightened comprehensively, of which the PCB enterprise total copper discharge concentration from the current 1.0mg/L to 0.3mg/L, heavy metal nickel, tin discharge limits synchronised with the compression of 40%. The new standard requires existing enterprises to complete the transformation before 2025, is expected to give rise to 18.2 billion yuan of environmental protection equipment update market.

"The Yangtze River Delta, as a 60% PCB production capacity agglomeration area in the country, is facing a window period for equipment upgrading," experts from the China Surface Engineering Association pointed out, "with Widen Electronics as the representative of the intelligent environmental protection equipment vendors ushered in a strategic opportunity." Its latest electroplating wastewater depth treatment system, through the three-stage reverse osmosis + ion exchange resin process, measured copper ion concentration in the effluent ≤ 0.1mg / L, while the use of Internet of Things platform real-time monitoring of the amount of pharmaceutical dosage, the operation of the energy consumption reduced by 35%.

Semiconductor industry transfer to further stimulate demand. 2023 Jiangsu introduced semiconductor projects with a total investment of more than 80 billion yuan, supporting electroplating / etching equipment market growth of 24%. Weideng Electronics recently won the bid for a memory chip sealing and testing base project, providing 20 fully automated plating line, which is characterised by:

Intelligent drip-type liquid management system, avoiding composition fluctuation caused by traditional tank liquid large circulation

Hydrogen bubble online monitoring module to prevent defects in wafer plating pockmarks.

Equipment data direct access to Jiangsu Province Industrial Cloud Platform to meet ITAR compliance audit requirements

The industry association predicts that the compound growth rate of intelligent surface treatment equipment will reach 18.7% from 2024-2027, with near-zero wastewater discharge, self-calibration system for process parameters, and distributed energy recovery device becoming the three major technological outbreaks. Relying on the "Intelligent Environmental Protection Equipment Laboratory" jointly built with Changzhou Vocational College, Weideng Electronics has reserved 6 core technology patents such as membrane separation and anti-pollution coating.