The development of the ink market

The following is an overview of the domestic market demand for various ink products.

(1) The future market demand for lithographic inks will increase steadily, but the rate will not be too large. It will increase at a rate of 5%-6%, accounting for 40%-45%, of which web offset inks will grow. The speed will be faster.

(2) The total proportion of letterpress inks will decrease, but the proportion of flexographic inks will continue to rise, which is also in line with the development trend of developed countries such as the United States and Japan.

(3) The general situation of gravure inks is in a stable state, but the printing inks and printing inks in plastic inks are in an upward trend. This is different from the international trend because it involves environmental recycling and other issues.

(4) The sales volume of the mesh ink market tends to increase, mainly due to the increase in the use of metal, glass and plastic screen inks. Moreover, the screen printing equipment has already broken the backward condition of the original manual printers. In some regions, foreign advanced screen printing equipment has been introduced to increase the amount of screen ink.

(5) The general trend of special and special inks is the increasing usage. For example, printing inks, anti-counterfeit inks, pearl inks, signage inks, fluorescent inks, and phosphorescent inks all increase in usage with the increase in market demand in the future.