Development of domestic gravure printing equipment in the color box market

First, the status of domestic gravure printing equipment

1. The number of manufacturers is large, and the scale varies greatly. Regionally, according to the latest statistics, the total number of gravure printing machine manufacturers in China exceeds 70, and the actual number is larger. The vast majority of manufacturers are gravure gravure printing machines, among which major manufacturing plants include Shaanxi Beiren Printing Machinery Co., Ltd., Zhongshan Songde Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd., Handan Light Industry Machinery Industry Co., Ltd., and Huaying Flexible Packaging Equipment Factory. Ningbo Xinda Printing Machinery Co., Ltd. There are also a few manufacturers of sheet-fed gravure printing machines, such as Beijing Zhenhengli Printing Machinery Co., Ltd., Shanghai Ziming Machinery Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Hairun Machinery Co., Ltd., etc.

The size of gravure printer manufacturers varies greatly, ranging from annual sales of less than 2 million yuan to annual sales of approximately 200 million yuan.

The distribution of gravure printer manufacturers has obvious regional characteristics. Of the total, 15 accounts for 21.4% of the total in Guangdong, 9 accounts for 12.9% of Jiangsu, 15 accounts for 21.4% of Shaanxi, 22 accounts for 31.4% of Zhejiang, and 2.9% for Beijing. In Shanghai, three countries accounted for 4.3% of the total, and Fujian, Yunnan, Shandong, and Hubei each accounted for 1.4% of the total. It can be seen that the above manufacturers are concentrated in Shaanxi, Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces, accounting for 87% of the total number of manufacturers.

In addition, there are a substantial and continuously growing number of manufacturers of gravure assistive devices and components. These manufacturers can provide tension control systems, register control systems, correction devices, image viewers, corona treatment devices, ESA, rubber rollers, die cutting equipment, and knives. In general, almost all auxiliary devices on gravure printing equipment are manufactured in China.

2. The product application field is expanding, and the product series and specifications are basically matched.

The domestic gravure printing machine has a wide range of applications. The most important area is flexible packaging printing. In recent years, the fields of folding cartons, such as cigarette packets, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics packaging, and aseptic packaging and printing have been rapidly developed.

Domestic gravure printing machine is widely used in various printing materials such as film, paper, aluminum foil and composite materials. The printing width in the color box area is from 600 to 2500 mm, which can meet different product requirements. The width of cigarette printing and gravure printing machine is generally 1300-2100mm, and the width of aseptic packaging gravure printing machine is generally 1000-1300mm. The number of domestic gravure printing machine color groups varies, soft cigarette package printing 6 to 8 colors, aseptic packaging printing 6 to 8 colors.

3. Product quality rapidly increases, but advanced and simple machines coexist

At present, the maximum mechanical speed of many domestic gravure printing presses has reached 200 meters/minute or more. It is particularly noteworthy that Zhongshan Songde and Shaanxi Beiren introduced the maximum speed of 300 meters/minute in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Printing machine. Some equipment performance has approached and reached the level of imported equipment. Due to the continuous function and continuous improvement of the degree of automation, the cost performance of domestic equipment is relatively high, and the competitive advantage is increasingly evident. One change that is happening is that some backbone packaging and printing companies that originally used imported equipment have begun to switch to domestically-made equipment and have made purchasing domestic equipment a basic direction for future investment.

The adoption of new technologies and systems has significantly shortened the gap with developed countries. For example, in terms of mechanical speed alone, the highest speed of domestic gravure printing machines has only reached the level of foreign 70-80s, but from the perspective of a new platform for electronic shaft drive technology, the gap between domestic gravure printing machines and foreign products is only a few years away. . Please see the following schedule:

·In 1997, the world’s first electronic axis gravure printing machine was produced in Italy;

· In 2000, drupa exhibited for the first time an electronic axis gravure printing machine;

·In 2002, China introduced the electronic axis gravure printing machine for the first time;

·In 2003, China produced the first electronic shaft gravure printing machine. At present, the total number of domestic electronic axis gravure printers is less than 10. Many manufacturers have turned from the production of a single product to the development of system solutions.

4. Began to quickly move to the international market

At present, China's gravure printer manufacturers' products are exported to about 30 countries and regions in total, but they are currently limited to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and South America, Russia, and other former Soviet Union countries. Among the manufacturers of these export products, there are well-known large factories and small factories that are not well-known.