JAPAN and TAIWAN– Capacity increases by Union Tool of Japan and Topoint of Taiwan have lead market watchers to predict continued competition of shares in the PCB drill bit market for 2009. Union Tool plans to increase its monthly output to 35 million units by the end of 2008. This will be an increase of 4 million against 2007 figures. Topoint expects monthly figures over 17 million by the end of the year, up 30% from 2007. The company also predicts its global market share to reach 17% to 18% by the end of 2008.