Flexo Printing Solutions (7)

(14) Introduction of domestic key enterprises

So far, the company has officially produced flexographic presses: Xi'an Black Bull Machinery Co., Ltd., Shaanxi Printing Machinery Co., Ltd., Shanxi Taihang Printing Machinery Factory, Beiren Fuji Machinery Co., Ltd., Qingzhou Yigaofa Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Ziguang Machinery Co., Ltd. Companies, Wuxi Baonan Printing Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Wenzhou Shenli Group Co., Ltd., Rui'an Yuehua Machinery Factory, Rui Andonghai Machinery Factory, Guangdong Samsung Machinery Co., Ltd., Xianyang Hefeng Printing and Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd. and more than 10 manufacturers. It has successively produced more than 50 narrow-type unit flexo presses. Specifications 16.5′′ account for a relatively large proportion, a small number of 13′′, 10′′ and 400mm, 460mm, 680mm, etc.. Individuals have a width of 1.4mm (mainly used in the iron industry). In addition, only Zhejiang Ruian Machinery Factory also produces Stacked four-color trademark flexo press.

Xi'an Black Niu Machinery Co., Ltd. is located in Hu County, Xi'an, a peasant painting township. It is 29 kilometers away from Xi'an and the traffic is smooth and convenient. The company covers an area of ​​19,900 square meters and a building area of ​​15,200 square meters. There are currently 300 employees, 150 of whom are mid-level and above scientific and technical personnel. There is a scientific research teaching building, three modern standard production plants, 52 million yuan in fixed assets, annual sales of more than 50 million yuan, the subsidiary company has black cattle packaging company, black cattle chemical company, Suodi industrial control company, Xi'an flexographic printing Technical school.

Founded in 1967, Shaanxi Printing Machinery Co., Ltd. is a state-owned large-scale enterprise that produces printing, packaging and decorating machinery and is one of the four major printing machinery manufacturing enterprises in China. More than 2,600 employees, including various types of professional and technical personnel more than 700, more than 200 scientific and technical personnel with high and mid-level titles. The factory has a science and technology building and a Shaanxi special printing machinery research institute. It is equipped with modern scientific research equipment such as the CAD computer center. The factory has nearly 10 processing centers and more than 600 sets of production and testing equipment. The company currently has four series of more than 100 product varieties, of which the AZJ series of gravure printing machines manufactured by the introduction of Japan Fuji technology and the YCW series of corrugated board printing and slotting machines developed and produced by the company are at the leading domestic level, reaching the 1990s. The international advanced level of similar products, products sell well all over the country, and exported to Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Egypt, Vietnam and Southeast Asian countries, praised by users.

Shanxi Taihang Printing Machinery Factory is a professional factory of the former Ministry of Machinery Industry's designated production, publishing and packaging decoration printing machinery, and has 35 years of history in producing printing machinery products. Previously, it mainly produced series of products based on self-adhesive label printing machines. The company covers an area of ​​130,000 square meters and owns 570 various types of equipment, including 286 metal cutting equipment, more than 30 large-scale high-precision and numerically controlled equipment, and a total of 1,300 employees, including 850 employees who produce printing machinery. , 26 senior engineers, 60 engineers, and other engineering and technical personnel. The original value of the fixed assets in the books was 66.735 million yuan, and the net value was 61.66 million yuan. Taihang brand's various printing machinery products enjoy a high reputation in China.

Qingzhou Yigaofa Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd. is a wholly foreign-owned enterprise that specializes in the development, research, and manufacturing of unit-type flexographic printing presses. The company has strong technical force, rich experience in flexo printing press manufacturing and flexo printing, and can provide users with a complete set of technical services from product design, plate making, ink printing to boot printing. The company's products are sold in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and have been exported to Vietnam, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries.

Shanghai Ziguang Machinery Co., Ltd. has a total investment of 13.63 million US dollars and a registered capital of 7.5 million US dollars. China and the United Kingdom each take up 50% of the shares, and China is responsible for production, operation and management. The company covers an area of ​​8,661 square meters, with a construction area of ​​5,775 square meters and a total construction area of ​​14,593 square meters. The company's employees stay at around 550 people.
Founded in 1951, it is a key enterprise of the former National Electromechanical Department and has more than 50 years of experience in manufacturing post-press binding equipment. In 1993, Shanghai Purlux Machinery Co., Ltd. was founded in a joint venture with the internationally-known subsidiary of the Morningside Group (Purple Scroll Investments, Co., Ltd). , It is a famous manufacturer of finishing machinery and special printing machinery.

(15) Flexographic Printing Prospects

Due to the constant adoption of new technologies, flexographic printing has developed into a fully mature process today. This process has been very developed in Europe and the United States, among which the United States is the most. In the United States, flexo printing has become the second largest printing process after plain printing. In the packaging industry, flexographic printing has become the dominant printing process. The right picture shows us a nearly half of the actual development of the flexographic version in the packaging field. We have already predicted a little bit about the future. We have seen a great development in the flexo version since the last actual 80s. Improvements in equipment performance, on the other hand, are manifested in the expansion of process applications. Flexo has broken through the boundaries of the traditional printing and packaging market and began to be used in newspapers, books and periodicals, commercial paper and other fields. In addition, the ever-increasing print quality indicates that the flexographic printing will have a more promising market prospect.

The prospects for the development of flexographic printing in China are promising. The reasons are as follows:

1. Widely used non-toxic water-based ink printing. Flexo ink is the only non-toxic ink approved by the American Food and Drug Association in all printing inks.

2. Wide range of printing media. Flexo printing machines can print all kinds of paper, and the types of printable media are more than other types of printing.

3. Comprehensive equipment processing ability. Almost all narrow-width unit type flexographic printing machines can perform post-printing processing on the same device, such as front and back printing, coating, laminating, die cutting, cross cutting, slitting, punching, punching, fan folding , automatic waste, etc., can even add a number, bronzing or screen printing unit on the printing unit. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to call a flexographic printing press a print processing line.

4. Small production investment. Because of the relatively simple structure of the flexographic printing press, the equipment investment is lower than the offset press or gravure press of the same scale, generally saving 30% to 40%.

Flexible printing can be widely used in various types of packaging and printing products. In the United States, due to the use of automatic labeling machines and the large number of applications of stickers, the flexographic printing presses' rotary printing methods and the once-printed and post-printing processing have been completed. The self-adhesive labels have become the main products of flexographic printing presses. Flexographic printing can complete almost all label printing processes, such as die cutting, embossing, waste discharge, glazing, laminating, unwrapping and then printing and then paste. At the same time, products suitable for narrow-format flexographic printing presses include paper packaging for various types of goods, folding cartons (for cigarettes, alcohol, medical supplies, cosmetics, health products, etc.), paper bags, paper cups, paper cutlery, and wallpapers. Wait. Products suitable for wide format flexographic printing presses include all types of plastic films, vacuum aluminized films, and pure aluminum foil packaging products such as liquid packaging, baby diapers, feminine hygiene napkins, daily chemical cleaning products, and medical packaging.