Various businesses compete for the packaging printing market development space

Looking at this exhibition is not difficult to find such an important trend: various different areas of the printing industry are moving to the packaging and printing market. This establishes a strategic partnership between Heidelberg and Gallas, Switzerland, with the launch of the Arsoma flexographic printing press; Manroland introduces the F and M flexo printing presses of the Danish Nilpeter company; and OMIT, Japan's Mitsubishi launches the Multiboard flexo printing Machines and other performances can prove this.

This dynamic change in printing reflects the huge potential of China's packaging and printing market. Printers in various countries have been keenly aware that the first to enter the Chinese market in the Chinese market means that China's packaging and printing market may have a huge space for development. It is precisely because of this that there has been an indisputable fact that the growth rate of the packaging printing market in China has exceeded the growth rate of the printing market in recent years.

With the increasing prosperity of our country’s economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, and the rapid development of the commodity economy, the requirements for the quantity and quality of packaging and printing have become higher and higher. At the same time, the industry has begun to realize that the packaging added value created by packaging printing is becoming an important aspect of obtaining printing profits. Therefore, on the one hand, domestic manufacturers have introduced flexographic printing presses of various grades and specifications, which are suitable for packaging and printing needs. On the other hand, a large number of foreign manufacturers have also positioned flexographic printing presses of various brands and different specifications for Chinese packaging and printing. Market to get a huge profit return.

As a whole, China's packaging and printing market is huge, but packaging and printing power and packaging and printing technology are relatively weak. With the overall improvement of China's printing technology level, it will inevitably lead to a corresponding increase in the level of packaging and printing technology, but the resource allocation in the domestic packaging and printing market is not reasonable. In the international packaging and printing market, flexo, gravure and offset printing with different characteristics have achieved corresponding development and occupy different fields in the packaging and printing market. In China's packaging and printing market, the application of printing technology is too focused on gravure and offset printing, and the application of printing technology is not balanced, resulting in a certain waste of printing resources. For example, international flexographic printing technology has been widely used in packaging and printing, but it has not been able to achieve greater development in China. In North America and other countries and regions where the packaging and printing market is relatively mature, the flexographic printing process, which is particularly suitable for packaging and printing, accounts for two-thirds of the packaging and printing market, while the situation in China is less than one-tenth.

China's packaging and printing market has an unreasonable resource allocation. Although there have been rapid developments in offset and gravure printing in the past decade or so, there are many practical difficulties in the application of flexographic printing technology in China, but more importantly, the investment in flexographic printing. , research and promotion have not done enough. To make greater progress in China's packaging and printing market, we should refer to the development experience of international packaging printing and accelerate the development of flexographic printing technologies. Otherwise, after China's accession to the WTO, the international "wolf" will flock. On the eve of China’s imminent accession to the WTO, the international packaging and printing industry will use this exhibition to launch a large number of flexographic printing technologies. This is actually a signal.

China's development of flexographic printing technology does not start from scratch. From a technical point of view, there is only a certain gap between the flexographic plate and platemaking equipment and flexo printing auxiliary materials (except for water-based inks), and the gap between flexographic printing equipment and post-press processing equipment is not Large, especially in China's development of flexo printing is still in the stage of popularization, the technical level of hardware equipment is able to adapt to market requirements. For example, the TY460 unit flexo press successfully developed by Taihang Printing Machinery Co., Ltd. has two-level tension control, electronic correction, UV coating, round die cutting, slitting, static detection and unique flat die-cutting linkage function. The printing cable reaches 175 lines. /inch. The TY6400 six-color flexographic printing press manufactured by Shaanxi Yinji Machine is a self-developed non-polluting environment-friendly narrow-width flexographic printing glazing die-cutting machine. The pneumatic brake and the tension detection device constitute a closed-loop automatic tension control, and the gravure can be selected. The printing unit, monolithic cast iron wallboard, guarantees fine paper and film printing. Shanghai Ziguang YR series flexographic printing presses produced in accordance with ISO9001 standards, design, manufacturing level reached the international level of the 1990s, with a stable two-level tension control, quick ink change system, 360 ° register gear box, you can ink Printing can also be all UV printing. Strong on-line processing capability, especially suitable for medium and high-grade packaging, bottle posts and label printing. Beiren Fuji adopts the BFF-5000 series of commercial flexo printing presses produced by Fujifilm Technology of Japan, which not only has the features of high design, high processing level, and high printing speed, but also can be equipped with flip printing, hot stamping, folding receipt, and combination offset printing. The printing unit is equipped with an image detection system for high quality lotteries, lottery tickets, paper bags, cardboard, films and stickers. The private joint-stock enterprise Xi'an Heiniu brings RY series of unit type flexo printing presses. The equipment features three-roller helical gear transmission, integrally mounted plate cylinder, and Mitsubishi's bipolar constant tension control. It has filed five patents. , The sales performance in the current Chinese packaging printing market is remarkable. In addition, Wuxi Baonan, Wenzhou Shenli Group and Shanghai Xinyi Solar Machinery are all producing unit type flexographic printing presses. The types of models basically cover different types of printing requirements in the packaging and printing market. At this exhibition, most of these domestic manufacturers believe that the development of flexographic printing equipment that has been under production for less than 10 years is still a big gap compared to the international advanced flexographic equipment that has been developed for decades, such as the stability of printing equipment. Not high, the print quality control is not stable enough, and the printing speed, printing flexibility, and overall printing efficiency still need to be further improved.

The general characteristics of the flexo printing equipment produced by foreign manufacturers participating in the exhibition are its high efficiency, stability and high quality of flexo printing. For example, the Mark Andy combined flexo printing press, which represents the United States's first brand, has been a drafter of the American flexographic printing industry standard for more than 50 years of development and production history. Its double wall plate frame structure design, "QC" quick change ink system drawer design, automatic closed-loop tension control system, closed gear box, no-reverse coupling main drive and segmented hollow drive shaft, overall The high-strength die-cutting unit of floor-standing wallboard and box-type frame structure, quick-falling scraping system, quick-disengagement self-positioning paper-laying roller, and convenient and optional matching device make it have reasonable design and excellent processing. Easy to operate and stable performance advantages. Canada's Yajiafa CLX flexo printing press with NC electromagnetic brake tension system, non-stop roll change, paper feeder, automatic paper roll correction, UV/IR/hot air combination drying, touch screen PLC Control system, indentation/embossing/bronzing/die cutting/cross-cutting station, automatic plate cleaning system and many other features, wide printing repeat length, suitable for printing of films, labels, paper, cardboard, is durable, flexible and more The flexo printing equipment with outstanding features and outstanding functions is also the most sold unit type flexographic printing machine in the Chinese market today, accounting for almost one-third of the domestic imported equipment. The A brand series flexo press manufactured by American Allied Gear Company has been tested for many years and has a good price/performance ratio. The structure is simple, practical and complete. In addition, the overseas flexographic printing equipment exhibited include the U.S. Propheteer series flexo presses, Japan's OMET's Multiboard flexo presses, Danish Nilpeter's F and M series flexo presses, and Heidelberg's cooperation with the Gallus. Launched Arsomo series of unit flexo presses. When it comes to the status of flexo printing in the Chinese market, they generally believe that the development prospects of flexo printing are promising, and the market demand will increase. However, due to the abundance of labor resources in China, the application of packaging prints is still limited to a certain extent, which limits the application of flexo printing equipment to a certain extent. For example, in the printing of stickers, highly efficient flexographic printing machines have not received due attention. At the same time, improving the quality of flexo printing and strengthening the training of professional and technical personnel are also important prerequisites for the development of the flexo printing market.

At the exhibition, we can also see that these foreign flexographic equipment entering the Chinese market do not represent the most advanced international standards. This is because many new technologies that represent the highest level of flexo printing are not included, such as direct on-board printing, New-generation anilox roller, sleeve technology, independent drive technology without shafts, and advances in mechanical and electronic control technologies in on-line production. For this phenomenon, foreign equipment dealers believe that advanced technology has been used in flexographic printing is very popular in foreign countries, but there are certain problems in the country to promote, the most critical is the price. For example, the domestic unit 8 flexo machines generally cost about RMB 100 million, while imports of the same specifications of the equipment you need more than 50 million dollars, has been several times higher than domestic equipment, only the addition of a new technology without a separate drive shaft Equipment prices may rise to nearly 2 million U.S. dollars, and their market development is naturally limited.

From the status quo of flexo printing technology in China's printing market, we can see that domestic flexographic printing needs to occupy a large market share in the packaging and printing market, in addition to the advantages of cost-effectiveness, environmental protection, high efficiency, and wide range of printing, etc. It is necessary to improve the quality of printing in order to win the space for survival and development from offset and gravure printing processes. Although the high price of imported flexo equipment but still have a market precisely for this reason.

For hinder the development of flexible printing in the choice and coordination of major equipment, materials, technology aspects, the famous manufacturer DuPont flexographic DOPONT company contact flexo-related companies, proposed a "flexible absolute doctrine" on the future of printing and packaging exhibition The concept, a complete solution for flexographic printing, attempts to solve the combined problems of prepress, printing, and postpress. At the show, Durelt's Cyrel flexo plate, Barco's platemaking software, Photomeca's platemaking equipment, Allied Gear's flexo printing machine, Tesa's tape product, Harper's anilox roller, M-real's paper and Jiuheng's consortium of agency services. This will be the future development of international flexographic printing technology, is bound to have some impact on the long-term development of China's packaging printing market.