[Chinese Packaging Network News] It is well-known that flexo printing has the advantage of environmental protection due to its use of ink, suitable for PE and other stretch film printing, and the increasingly fine-printing effects, and so on, has increasingly attracted the attention of people in the industry. In Europe and the United States, especially the United States, flexo occupies 80% of the market. In recent years, the flexo printing process has also achieved rapid development in the field of folding cartons and labels in China. In the film flexible packaging industry, many companies have begun to try.
Let's take a look at first-hand information given by industry professionals.
First, the status quo of Chinese flexo printing companies using flexographic printing technology
Xue Zhicheng, chief engineer of Shaanxi Beiren Printing Machinery Co., Ltd.:
Currently, as far as I know, Shanghai Ziquan, Kunshan St. Jones, You Nijia and other flexible packaging companies have successfully used flexographic printing films, mainly used in flexible packaging materials and labels. Paper is pre-printed in cartons, aseptically packaged, film products, and the main substrates are PE, LDPE, cast PE, and non-woven fabrics (urine is not wet). Nowadays foreign countries use more breathable membranes for the packaging of meat products, and the volume is relatively large. Shanghai Sealed Air has to do such products. Flexible printing of conventional materials such as OPP and PET is no problem.
Song Xingzhuo General Manager Zhang Xingbin:
Flexo printing is not widely used in the domestic flexible packaging industry, so relative supporting consumables are expensive, and there are few professionals. As far as I know, Beijing Lianbin, Huangshan Yongxin, Shanghai Ziquan, Shanghai Assistance, Guangdong Xinlida, and Guangdong Porter all use satellite flexo printing machines to print plastic films (PE, OPP, etc.), and What is a Gansuese company's business? What's more, there are countless carton pre-printing factories using the unit type flexo printing machine (also some satellites) in printing beer boxes, fruit boxes, vegetable boxes. In addition, there are two types of markets that need special attention: milk bags and labels. Of course, it is irrelevant to flexible packaging, but the use of flexo printing is very large. The main printed film substrates are LDPE (breathable film), milky white film, etc. There are also printed BOPP labels (Shanghai Ziquan is used to print Coca-Cola bottle labels).
Xiang Fengyang, general manager of Tian Jun:
In terms of toilets, there are Shanghai Ziquan, Beijing Lianbin, and Huangshan Yongxin. The main substrate is PE, and Ziquan also produces beverage packaging (PE shrink film, etc.). In addition, the flexographic process is also used for breathable films and plastic bags. , Li Le pillow (beverage bag) and other products.
Shantou Ouge Machinery Sales Manager Yan Shunjia:
At present, there are still fewer manufacturers in China that use flexo printing technology in food soft packaging. Take the example of the 50-seat satellite flexo printing machine that our sister company has manufactured. Only three domestic companies have a total of six machines in printing. Food packaging, mainly produces PE packaging film, ham sausage casing film, multi-layer co-extruded shrink film, and all products are exported. Among them, Song Dezhang has just mentioned that Guangdong Porter has now used 3 satellites of our company to flexo-print and print PE. All products are exported to the United States.
And our company exports more than ten sets of equipment to countries such as Russia, Bulgaria, Australia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Ecuador, Thailand, Nigeria, etc., almost without exception, in the printing of food flexible packaging, so we can see that domestic flexo printing in this area weak.
According to the use of our domestic users, the printing of PE breathable membranes for baby diapers has the fastest growth rate in this area. The company that has the largest number of satellite flexographic presses in China, represented by Foshan Randi, is now using me. Division 7 equipment, and is growing at a rate of 2 to 3 units per year. In this industry, more than 5 companies now use our company's satellite flexo press.
From the product point of view, the products that our company has applied to printing machines include: paper box preprinting, paper cups, paper bags, Tetra Pak, 30~50g hamburger wrapping paper, and tray paper, etc.; sanitary packaging material breathable film, heat shrinkage Films, high barrier films, ham sausages, nylon bags, and other film products.
Lu Zhijian, general manager of Shanghai Fanhua Machinery:
Flexible packaging production, the choice of satellite flexo is undoubtedly the best choice. Zhangzhou Golden Dragon purchased the "Feiwo" brand eight-color satellite flexo printing machine eight years ago, mainly used for printing various plastic films ranging from 15μm BOPP to 120μm PE. In addition, Qingdao Shuangtai's carton preprinting and Shanghai Zixiang's breathable film printing also use satellite flexo printing.
Wang Chengyou, deputy general manager of Huizhou Haofeng Printing Material Technology Co., Ltd.:
At present, as far as I know, Jinjia and Ke Cai's cigarette pack aluminum foil is being printed with flexographic printing. Lanzhou Flute, Liansu Wanjia, Tenghua and other soft pack companies are printing on the flexo printing PE film breathable film. Far East PE paper cups Flexo printing. At present, flexographic printing is mainly used for cigarette packs, paper cups, baby diapers, sanitary napkins, and food packaging.
Color printing, aluminum coating consultant (18 children):
China's flexographic printing technology has been used very well on continuous bills, express documents, and self-adhesive labels, and the products have been made quite beautiful.
He Keda-Wei Teacher:
In the export of health care products, the original gravure printing companies have already used flexo printing in transition.
Second, in the next 3 to 5 years, the development trend of flexo printing in China's film flexible packaging market
Xue Zhicheng, chief engineer of Shaanxi Beiren Printing Machinery Co., Ltd.:
In order to change the market share of flexo printing in the future, it is necessary to break the market's awareness of packaging. In fact, flexo and gravure are the same as the intaglio, which can meet the requirements of different packaging. However, domestic culture is not the same as other countries. Our company is now working with Flint Ink, Xinhua Plates, and related anilox roller and sleeve suppliers to develop suitable products. The domestic kits will reduce the cost pressures of users, and at the same time, they will hold technical training at industry users and strengthen technology promotion. It is believed that flexo printing will be used more.
Song Xingzhuo General Manager Zhang Xingbin:
The total market share and proportion, everyone's acceptance of flexo will be greatly improved. At the very least, food packaging and pharmaceutical packaging should use more flexographic printing products. The most important solution is that the country imposes heavy taxes or penalties on VOCs and increases the cost of environmental pollution. Flexographic will naturally receive more attention.
Xiang Fengyang, general manager of Tian Jun:
With the consensus of the people on the urgency of air governance, with the increasing emphasis on environmental protection of the entire society, along with the popularization of the above-mentioned new technologies and the improvement of the quality of flexographic equipment, the next 3 to 5 years, Flexo will have major breakthroughs in all areas of China's film flexible packaging market: hygiene packaging, household paper, beverage packaging, and other film printing fields currently dominated by gravure printing.
Shantou Ouge Machinery Sales Manager Yan Shunjia:
In recent years, the number of flexo presses in China has grown at a fairly rapid rate. Since the price of satellite flexo presses is higher than that of other types of jet presses, at present, there are mostly two types of units: unit type and stack type. However, with the continuous improvement of industry requirements, satellite-based models will be a strong growth model in the future. In European and American markets, satellite-based flexo printers account for about 70% of the entire flexographic market, and most of them are used for flexible packaging printing. Corrugated paper preprinted and label printed. By the end of 2014, we will have about 20 machines for the diaper bottom film printing.
Lu Zhijian, general manager of Shanghai Fanhua Machinery:
According to the experience of Europe and the United States, flexo printing has unique advantages in the fields of food, medicine and maternal and child products. In the next 3 to 5 years, the packaging of dairy products, fresh meat, vegetables, fruit juices, beverages, and condiments in China will have greater development, and the environmental advantages of flexo printing will be fully utilized in the food packaging field. There are Eisai PE bottom film (breathable film, non-breathable film), middle waist, etc., PE outer packaging (white film, transparent film), color film (PET bottles, cans, glass PE outer packaging) soft India is a development trend.
Wang Chengyou, deputy general manager of Huizhou Haofeng Printing Material Technology Co., Ltd.:
Flexible printing and gravure printing in beverage labels, plastic shopping bags, battery labels and other flexible packaging areas will have major breakthroughs, our company is widely used in water-based gravure printing paper preprints such as beer boxes, beverage boxes and other food packaging.