Flexographic Printing Industry Development Prospects in 2001 (I)

(Flexo 2001) The annual flexographic printing market survey initiated by the Flexo Technology Association and analysis of its development status has formed a fixed tradition for many years. The purpose is to point the way for the future development of the flexographic printing industry. According to statistics released by the Flexo Printing Technology Association in 2000, the flexographic printing industry still maintained a good momentum of development. With the improvement of product quality and production efficiency, the flexographic printing technology has been more widely recognized, and at the same time, the business volume has also been greatly increased. It is expected that sales revenue in 2001 will increase by 6% to 7% compared with 2000. Flexographic printing has grown much faster in some areas than in other areas, especially in the folding cartons, flexible packaging, and label printing markets. However, in fact, the growth rate of flexographic printing in various fields is expected to be able to maintain the expected value of 3%. The position of flexo printing in the packaging industry will become more and more stable, so its profit will be slightly higher than the average profit value of the supply chain. The above view is analyzed by market analysts. Market analysts analyzed and looked forward to flexo printing and its development trend in the near future, and pointed out that flexo printing is a kind of “growing”, “stable”, “successful”, “ Very competitive "," with strong vitality, "advanced" printing process. Everyone believes that flexo printing has already seized a large number of markets in the flexible packaging industry, and its share has risen to about 72%. In 2000, the growth of flexographic printing was very rapid, with an overall growth rate of 6%. The rapid rise of the flexographic printing process has forced many offset and gravure printing companies to take a close look and generate a strong interest, and conducted an in-depth investigation and study. The number of "hybrid printing" companies has increased day by day, and they have benefited tremendously from the development momentum, but there may be some pressure on prices and profits. Now, many manufacturers of consumer goods are still full of confidence in the way of flexographic printing, because consumers have noticed that a large number of products are now produced by flexographic printing, and the consistency of the product can already be comparable to offset printing, and even already Exceeded the level of offset printing. In general, technological innovation will have a great impact on the industry's production next year. At present, this kind of innovative technology already exists in the flexographic printing industry, and there is a huge impetus for development in many fields. The most important is the gearless press technology. This technology can reduce downtime, increase production efficiency, and ensure rapid and immediate product quality analysis. As this new type of gearless flexo printing press is showing great potential, it will gradually expand the use of CTP products in almost every printing link. UV inks and EB (electron beam) curing inks have formed a relatively stable application in the printing of labels and folding cartons, and will be applied in the center type printing machine in the future, mainly for printing flexible packaging materials. The application of higher-line anilox rolls can further improve the quality of fine prints, especially for the highlights and tone reproduction of the highlights and dark areas. First, the plastic film packaging (flexible packaging) As soft drinks, beer and various food packaging gradually adopt new materials, new structures, it has greatly promoted the growth of plastic film, sales income reached 2010 million US dollars, but also in 2001 Another five percentage points increase. As market demand continues to change, demand for inventory is getting lower and lower, which also prompts consumer goods manufacturers to choose flexographic printing processes. Second, the paper bag / multi-layer composite paper bag paper bag / multi-layer composite paper bag market sales revenue reached 3 million US dollars, the market is quite stable. Some large consumer goods manufacturers often change their product design patterns. This is very meaningful for the print supply chain, but it will not affect the overall growth of the packaging market. After all, these paper bag printing companies are only a small part of the entire paper printing industry. 3. Trademarks and Labels In 2000, most trademark and label printing companies experienced relatively large fluctuations, the growth rate reached 5% ~ 6%, and the total sales revenue was about $ 10.2 million. The expected growth rate in 2001 Will be higher, it is possible to reach 8% to 7%. The reason on the one hand is the implementation of new trademark laws and regulations in the pharmaceutical industry; in addition, CTP is of higher quality and has great potential for development. As CTP printing operators are well trained and production efficiency is very high, this is a trademark printing process. The company is very helpful. As consumer goods manufacturers want to open sales channels from a more “personalized market” aspect, investment in digital platemaking or digital printing technology may become a new economic growth point for large printing companies. IV. Corrugated boxes and preprints In the year 2000, the businesses in the corrugated box and preprinted areas showed fluctuations. Overall, compared with 1999, the volume of business in 2000 was relatively flat. The performance of the major paper suppliers is not ideal, which can be seen from their stock prices. The total sales revenue is about 29 million US dollars, which has taken into account the modest price growth factors. In the past few years, in the printing of corrugated boxes, images have become more and more prominent and important, and have had a greater impact on the business. However, there are still great potentials in this area that have not been fully explored and utilized. From the perspective of the stock market, the production and operation of some of the major cardboard manufacturers are not very good, because the industry union does not achieve the improvement of profits as expected. Now that we have realized that the role of printing is small, it is very difficult to realize if we want to improve the quality of corrugated box prints as an aspect of adding value to corrugated boxes. In order to meet the high quality requirements put forward by consumer product manufacturers, printing companies have to face this challenge alone. In 2000, flexographic printing has achieved certain results. More and more printing jobs have adopted four-color and five-color printing. At the same time, they have fully played the role and potential of the printing press. In 2001, the growth rate of flexo-printed corrugated boxes should reach around 7% to 8%. Can we still achieve higher growth rates? absolutely okay! The application of more new technologies and new standards will continue to increase the competitiveness of the process, increase production efficiency and at the same time reduce production costs. Therefore, it will be able to provide more development space and opportunities for consumer goods manufacturers.