Carton printing cost analysis

"Now the profit of cartons is very low, and cartons are hard to do!" Similar posts are often seen on professional websites. I think this pain is not the voice of individual companies. This is a common phenomenon. So how to break this bottleneck? Everyone has been very concerned about printing and cardboard lines, but often ignores the post-printing process, which may be the cause of concern for the former's large investment in equipment, and the reasons for the lack of post-impression investment or negligence. In fact, even if the printing presses of some carton manufacturers are first-class, if the post-processes are not well-controlled, it is likely to produce a pile of waste products. If you invest some of your energy in controlling post-printing links, you can create a considerable amount of profit. For the pasted box link, the author integrated the situation reflected by many customers, hoping that through the improvement of the printing process can give carton companies a certain amount of help.

The demand for cartons from China's export products is increasing, and the quality requirements for cartons are also increasing. Most of the packaging of export products and food packaging are done through bonding. At present, there are four types of operations for paste boxes (boxes) in China:

1. Manual work method;

2. Hand-push type semi-automatic paste box machine;

3 automatic paste box (box) machine;

4.DK series line-glue box (box) machine;

Everyone should be familiar with the DKH series of semi-auto gluing machines. The main features of this machine are: simple operation, saving labor, improving efficiency, and saving glue. This machine has only changed in the production process of the carton factory, and achieved the ideal effect of the carton box enterprise in the process of this change.

The author analyzes the pasting boxes of China's carton factories as follows:

First, the manual operation mode: This method is the most traditional, the largest occupation of space, the largest occupation of manpower, the lowest efficiency (average 200 hours. People), the highest rate of rejects (frequent carton glue, glue and other undesirable phenomena) With the largest amount of glue (manual brush or plastic bottle glue, large amount, uneven thickness), the highest production cost (low production value, large amount of glue, the cost is naturally high); currently small-scale enterprises generally use this The advantage of labor-intensive production is that it does not require investment in fixed assets, and there are no special requirements for products.

Second, hand-push semi-automatic cartoning machine: This cartoning machine has been widely used in many carton factories. Its characteristics are: small footprint, quick change of orders, production efficiency is about 2 times faster than artificial (2 people A group of average production of 800 to 1000 hours. Group), glue and less than the amount of artificial, low investment costs. The disadvantages are: It is impossible to produce small-size carton boxes, and it is impossible to produce special-shaped boxes. The line position is inaccurate (easy to be flared, line deviation, etc.);

Third, automatic cassette (box) machine: Some large-scale carton enterprises have used this machine, and many imported from Japan are suitable for producing large-volume orders. Disadvantages are: long debugging time, sticky mouth easy to take place, short order, small single is not suitable for use this machine production, because the debugging time can be completed manually, one-time input machinery costs high (nearly 1.8 million); so this There are still few companies that use these operating methods. The advantages are: high production efficiency, occupies less manpower. In addition, most of the automatic folder-gluers used in the production of cartridges on the market are not yet suitable for the production of corrugated boxes and are prone to problems with line errors. There are no good solutions for demanding products.

Fourth, the DKH series of automatic feed semi-automatic paste box machine: This model can achieve a multi-purpose machine, can produce special-shaped box, small-size carton, large-size carton, two-carton, long and short are suitable for production, change single Fast, can meet various quality requirements, save glue (50% than manual coating), uniform coating, firm bonding, high production efficiency (eg: 6 positions in the beer box can paste about 6000 to 7000 per hour, An average of 1,000 people per hour.), occupying a moderate amount of space, according to model size is generally 30 to 65 square meters, per capita efficiency is 2 times manual push-type semi-automatic paste machine, artificial 4 times more than this machine has been numerous The customer's favor.

In addition, the UV grinder can effectively destroy the sticky position of the UV oil. The firm strength of a guaranteed sticky box can be used to replace the expensive UV glue with a cheap white glue, which reduces the production cost.

Common problems in carton joints

Human resources issues: Of course, this is not just a carton plant problem. Basically, the entire industry has such problems. As far as general workers are concerned, when the peak season is in production, the manpower is never enough. When they are out of season, they cannot leave their vacations because there are few people who come back after the holiday and it is even more difficult to recruit workers. This is more difficult. Most factory headaches are too high for the enterprises to bear the high wages. Workers who feel a little lower wages will feel uncomfortable. Even if there are fewer orders, basic wages will be needed to support them. Therefore, no factory is willing to use too many low-production labor.

The problem of production costs: raw material prices, the market continues to drive down sales prices, profits have not been so considerable, companies in order to ensure adequate profit margins to control from all aspects of their own production, improve production efficiency, reduce production costs and other aspects Improve profitability.

If the sticky box employees use 10 less people, the annual savings will be nearly 150,000 yuan;

Sticky glue saves 50% of usage, which is also a considerable cost;

If the scrap rate is reduced by 80%, the production costs will be reduced by a lot.

The problem of production efficiency: This problem is very serious in purely hand-manufactured enterprises. Workers' productivity and other emotions are affected by subjective factors and cannot effectively control quality and efficiency.

Poor ability to handle emergencies: If the customer requests that 100,000 cartons be completed within 3 days, can the carton company guarantee quality delivery on time. If there is no machine package to complete, the carton enterprises in the temporary recruitment of labor is the most painful thing: first of all whether the new workers can guarantee the quality of products; and secondly whether it is possible in a short time to recruit enough labor to solve the problem; so there is A lot of instability factors are inside.

In summary, although the profits of carton box companies cannot be doubled through the process improvement of post-printing cassettes, the improvement of this process is the easiest to implement and control, not only reducing the production cost, ensuring the products Quality also enhances the competitiveness of the company.