HK Stock Market Move | PCB concept stocks continue recent gains with KB LAMINATES (01888) and DELTON (01989) both rising over 7% during the trading day.

PCB concept stocks continued the recent upward trend, as of the time of writing, KB LAMINATES (01888) rose by 5.82% to HK$36.72; DELTON (01989) rose by 5.63% to HK$184; Victory Giant Technology (02476) rose by 3.82% to HK$331.6; KINGBOARD HLDG (00148) rose by 1.04% to HK$44.58. On the news front, since April, many leading copper-clad laminate companies have issued price increase notices, steadily increasing the profitability of copper-clad laminate. It is worth noting that affected by the continuous increase in copper-clad laminate and upstream materials, Taiyao has notified customers that it will increase CCL prices from April 25, with some series products rising by 20% to 40%. China Securities Co., Ltd. believes that Resonac, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, and others announcing a price increase of over 30% for CCL, followed by domestic leaders such as KB LAMINATES raising prices, are typical examples of "price increases and performance realization"; the upgrading of material grades from M7 to M8, M9 indicates that the CCL industry is transitioning from cyclical products to high-speed materials technology, with a qualitative change in product structure and value center.