The Present Situation Of Gravure Press Equipment

In the past 20 years, China's gravure printing press has developed rapidly in the food, beverage, tobacco, pharmaceutical development, health care products, cosmetics industry, and more and more demand. As of 2000, it accounted for about 10% of the printing industry; packaging and printing, printing accounted for 19%, mainly in flexible packaging materials and paper packaging printing. Almost all plastic film printing does not print. At present, nearly 20 manufacturers have at least 8 - 3 imported printing production lines.

Although there are not a few printing factories in China, at the beginning, the import of printing equipment accounted for nearly half of the domestic market. From 2001 to 2002 is a relative peak of China's import of gravure printing press, the import has increased greatly compared with the previous two years, and the quality of imported equipment has improved. According to incomplete statistics, from 2001 to 2002, China imported more than 20 gravure production lines from Europe.

So far, more than 420 gravure printing production lines have been introduced, including printing, compounding, slitting and bag making equipment. Among them, the printing speed of multi-color gravure press is generally more than 50 m / min.

The development of printing technology in China. In the 1980s, facing the backward situation of packaging and printing in China, it provided good conditions to improve the development of packaging technology, the rapid development of relevant departments and packaging printing technology, as well as the progress of printing technology. After nearly 20 years of efforts, the gravure printing technology in China is more mature, better equipment, with a certain scale, its importance has become the second largest printing after lithography, China's printing industry occupies an important position.

According to incomplete statistics, at present, there are various gravure press manufacturers in China with a scale of more than 50. Each year, China produces more than 500 gravure presses of various specifications, as well as the series of product specifications and basic facilities, which expand from the application in packaging to products in other fields. *The high speed ranges from 50% to 60 m / min to 12 ° C ~ 150 m / min, and then at 200 m / min, it currently reaches 2130 ~ 300 m / min.

Gravure printing press and auxiliary equipment and a large number of components (tension control system, control system, ESA, rubber roller, etc.) manufacturers, and the number is increasing. After the completion of the printing press, the degree of automation has been continuously improved, and some products are close to the Japanese level.

Under the condition of increasing the number of imported equipment, domestic printing machine manufacturers, mainly producing and selling, have made considerable growth in recent years. The gravure printing machine manufacturing industry in China was a symbol event introduced by Fuji assembly gravure printing machine in Japan from 1994 to 1995, marking that China has entered the era of automatic or semi-automatic high-speed (more than 120 m / min) gravure printing machine. Second, 300 meters per minute was born in 2003 sets of domestic gravure printing machines, which marks that China has entered a new stage in manufacturing high-speed gravure presses.

Shaftless technology is a remarkable progress of gravure printing machine in the past 30 years. The advantages of the shaftless gravure printing machine are: high efficiency, low energy consumption, high precision, high production flexibility, short product replacement time and low test volume.

Although domestic manufacturers have been trying to catch up with the technology of foreign companies, due to the operation of extensive growth mode, the development of domestic enterprises has been struggling step by step. From the overall situation of domestic printing press manufacturers, the development mainly focuses on the following issues:

More manufacturers

Many printing machine manufacturers in China have developed rapidly, with low level and low overall technical level. The proportion of enterprises has a low strength. There are now more than 50 gravure press manufacturers in China, and there are more than that number of gravure press manufacturers in drupa 2000. In China, there are 11 (21%) in Shaanxi, 10 (19%) in Guangdong, 20 (38%) in Zhejiang and 8 (15%) in Jiangsu. Except for at least one in Beijing, Shandong, Hubei and Hebei, the actual number may be more. Most of the gravure printing brush factories are located in the areas where flexible packaging and printing plants are concentrated, and some are actually synchronous with the development of flexible packaging factories.

Big gap

The technology of China and Japan is 10 to 15 years old, which is a part of it. The structure reaches the level of Japan in 1990s, and the gap between China and South Korea is relatively small. Compared with European products, there is a big gap between domestic printing press and European products. The reason is that European equipment has reached a higher speed and has a more important position in the world market with more powerful functions. Compared with the international superior level of manufacturers, the domestic full technical level of printing press at least 20 years. The internationalization level of the market is at least 30 years.

Serious pollution

In offset printing, flexographic printing and printing, printing has caused serious pollution. In order to reduce pollution, foreign printing industry has taken effective measures and achieved good results. For example, it will eliminate the carbon paper corrosion gravure heavy pollution process: in the plate cylinder pretreatment and spray corrosion gravure, electronic engraving gravure production process, strengthen the waste treatment to reduce the pollution in gravure printing or production. In the late 1990s, we have successfully developed water-based gravure printing ink and gravure printing ink for all water environmental impact assessment and plastic film printing ink This is the main reason why foreign gravure printing can not maintain a 15% market share. At present, in China, the pretreatment of waste treatment process and gravure printing plate cylinder body: printing development is slow, paper or plastic film gravure printing or gravure printing ink, because the price is too high, solvent-based gravure printing ink is still used.

Reducing exports

Most of the domestic printing presses are only in the domestic market, and the export is just beginning. Domestic machine is the product size of small and medium-sized enterprises, a small number of equipment began to receive the attention of large and medium-sized printing enterprises, has begun to enter the international market.

At present, China has a small amount of equipment exported to Nanyang and the Middle East, a step forward in the international market. In order to catch up with the international challenges, China's printing press industry must recognize the situation and take responsibility. It is necessary to explore new ideas to catch up with the world's better level (mainly in Europe) and strive to become a better manufacturer. China is now in the gravure printing machine manufacturing enterprises, especially the organizational structure of the enterprises is mostly olive type, that is, the two heavy and light in the middle: the part of products produced almost entirely by the enterprise, which accounts for too large proportion; and the proportion that determines the enterprise's product development ability and marketing, and the weak customer service is too small. This will weaken the competitiveness of products, and organizational adjustment will change the olive business model to dumbbell business model, that is, enterprises only have a small number of parts and components production and assembly, and a large proportion of parts are produced to the society, which is undertaken by the society and manufacturers. Key customer service in product development and market marketing will enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. Don't pursue the future of gravure printing press. Simply understand it as the pursuit of high-speed, multi-color, high stability, short plate and humanization, environmental protection in product design, pursuit of individuation, modularization and intellectualization of product structure.