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- Under the trend of green environmental protection, flexographic printing has been further developed
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- Advocating green, environmental protection and energy saving has become a common concept held by today's people. As an important branch of the manufacturing industry, the printing industry has entered a critical period of industrial restructuring and transformation.
Before 2007, my country's high-end packaging and printing equipment was mainly imported from Germany, Japan, Switzerland and other countries. The price of an imported high-end packaging and printing equipment is about 50 million yuan, resulting in low-end equipment flooding the market, poor quality of printed products, high pollution and high energy consumption.
According to statistics, in the global sales of printing equipment, Western Europe and North America ranked second, both of which are relatively mature markets. The market size has declined over the past 5 years.
According to the data of China Printing and Equipment Industry Association, by 2020, there will be nearly 100,000 enterprises in my country's printing industry, and there will be more than 200 export destinations for printing equipment and equipment. From January to April 2021, the added value of the printing and recording media reproduction industry increased by more than 20% year-on-year.
In fact, based on the accelerated application of new-generation information technologies such as big data, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, many domestic printing companies have achieved upgrades in various aspects. It is reported that some enterprises have promoted the efficiency improvement of each link of the industrial chain through independent research and innovation, comprehensive application of information technology and Internet technology.
At present, the application of printing equipment in the manufacturing field has been relatively mature, such as printing wallpaper with special pigments such as aluminum pigments, copper-gold pigments, and vacuum electroplating metal pigments; printing circuit boards by screen printing; printing on cloth using offset printing equipment , to improve the traditional process of gradual dyeing of fabrics; use UV digital printing equipment to perform color photo-level printing on T-shirts, metal, leather and other surfaces, and so on.
In actual operation, the advantages of flexographic printing are very obvious.
Flexographic printing adopts short ink circuit system and closed double squeegee inking system, which ensures clean production and is suitable for non-toxic, non-polluting food and medicine and other green packaging; flexographic printing uses water-soluble ink and alcohol-soluble ink to meet the Food, medicine, tobacco and alcohol, cosmetics and other commodity packaging requirements, in line with environmental protection requirements; flexographic printing products have no solvent residues, no solvent emissions during the production process, and meet the national mandatory standards for solvent residues and emissions.
It is worth noting that the application of numerical control technology, computer technology, network technology and intelligent components to improve the automation and intelligence level of flexo printing equipment, in order to reduce the labor cost and physical labor intensity of the equipment, and realize the printing connection including flexo printing. Linearization is the main direction for the future development of the flexo printing market.
Some analysts believe that in the future, printing and packaging enterprises will enter a period of stagnant growth in average scale, coexistence of stock integration and structural adjustment, and the subdivision of packaging and printing will also show development characteristics such as chain, specialization, and localization. In addition, based on digital printing equipment and service cloud network, the printing form that provides customers with timely, small batches and personalized services may develop rapidly.
In fact, digital technology is becoming the basic technology of printing media. Printing equipment reflects the deep integration of information network technology, digital manufacturing technology and traditional machinery manufacturing technology, and has become a strategic emerging industry cultivated and developed by the country. It is believed that with the joint promotion of industry insiders, the related industries will usher in another stage of vigorous development.
