The status quo of application of flexo printing and flexo printing equipment in our country

At present, the flexographic printing market in China is mainly in flexible packaging printing, label printing, folding cartons (cosmetic boxes, kits, food, etc.), identification stickers (smoking labels, wine labels, cosmetic labels, etc.), and corrugated box preprints. In other areas, there have been new developments in recent years. Such as roof bags, SIG Combibloc, Tetra bags, security labels and anti-counterfeit packaging, high-end computers, tickets, lottery tickets, magnetic card tickets, boarding passes, luggage belts, playing cards, paper towels, napkins, toothpaste, and hoses for washing products And so on are all using flexographic printing.

When the China Printing and Equipment and Equipment Industry Association formulated the "Tenth Five-year Plan" for printing industry, it had proposed that by 2010, the use of flexo printing technology will account for 30% of the entire printing method (at that time, only 3%), due to the flexographic printing in our country. The application and development of technology is quite different from the development background and environment of foreign flexo printing technology. Therefore, the speed of development of flexo printing depends on the inclination of government policies and the guidance, especially the demand of the market.

In recent years, the state has attached importance to and supported the development of flexo printing technology. As early as in 1998, the China Printing and Equipment and Equipment Industry Association was commissioned by the State Economic and Trade Commission to demonstrate the “direction and key points of structural adjustment of special printing products”. The development of flexographic printing technology is one of the topics in this topic. And got the approval of the State Economic and Trade Commission. Since 1995, the Association has held one or two flexo-technical exchange meetings each year to promote the development of flexographic technology in China. As the flexo printing technology has developed rapidly from scratch in China (there are more than 500 flexo printing lines in the country at present), it has driven domestically-made flexographic printing machines, anilox rollers, inks, and plate making equipment. Equipment research and development and production, flexographic printing industry chain has initially formed.

As far as the production of flexographic equipment is concerned, at present, more than 10 manufacturers, including Shanghai Ziguang, Beijing Beiren Fuji, Xi'an Black Bull, Qingzhou Yigao, and Weifang Donghang, can manufacture flexo presses. This is a big improvement, but domestic flexo presses still have a big gap compared with imported flexographic presses. The situation is the same as that of domestic offset presses. (The production of offset presses in our country has a history of four to fifty years, but each year Also a large number of imports. The main gaps are:

(1) The advanced nature of the equipment;

(2) Process diversity and flexibility;

(3) life, durability and precision;

(4) The scope of application is not extensive enough.