A world market conditions Ink Present, the global printing ink industry continues to grow, international companies have used joint ventures, Cooperation The acquisition of various methods such as international expansion, many international companies in the domestic market declined, but china, the Asia-Pacific to develop.
2003 global annual sales of more than one billion U.S. dollars ink companies are: Dainippon Ink / Sun Chemical 4.4 billion U.S. dollars, Japan 1.4 billion Flint Ink, Toyo Ink 1 billion U.S. dollars; annual sales of more than 300 million U.S. dollars were : BASF 762 million U.S. dollars, Japanese SakataInx7.42 billion, SICPA 725 million U.S. dollars, Tokyo, Japan ink 454 million U.S. dollars, German HuberGroup3.8 100 million U.S. dollars, Japanese Xikeweier 380 million U.S. dollars, Japanese InctecInc3 such .6 billion dollars.
International Ink Company to capture greater market share of ink in recent years developed many new varieties: such as sheet-fed process inks, thermosetting web Offset printing ink Industry Ink jet Products (continuous ink-jet CIJ, Demand Drop out of DOD), conductive ink (in Beijing factory), flexo ink with paper towels, newspaper flexo ink (photosensitive resin version), alcohol-based ink in gravure printing, waterless offset printing soybean oil (green) ink and other new ink.
Ink development driving force in the following areas: 1. Technological advances, new materials, new production technology for the development of ink, such as the rapid development in recent years, the jet ink, etc.; 2. Market and promote the people’s new needs, or the fierce market competition to promote the progress of the ink, more of that country for the same type, same grade of product price competition; 3.
Promotion of environmental regulations, ink side is not yet perfect laws, but in other related areas such as food packaging contains heavy metals, packaging, solvent residue, and other standards and regulations limit VOC limit can be predicted and the corresponding regulations will soon drawn up. Second, domestic production and market situation Ink China’s share of world output ink ink 5 ~ 6%, ranking fourth after the United States, Japan, and Germany, and an annual increase rate of more than l0%.
According to statistics, China’s printing ink consumption in 2001 was 220 000 t, 2002 years 242 100 t, 2003 years 274 600 t: 205 000 2001 production of t, 2002 years 220 000 t, 2003 years 244 600 t. In China, the largest share of offset inks, the market share of 40? 45% annual growth rate of nearly 6%, flexo ink Zeyi 5% annual rate of growth, steady growth gravure ink, screen ink version of a growth trend alcohol-soluble ink and water-based ink rapid growth in demand.
China’s printing industry and printing ink manufacturers in the distribution is an interesting feature is that the manufacturers have consciously or unconsciously, take the road of specialization, the top 10 manufacturers are basically ink offset printing ink manufacturing plant, or gravure ink manufacturer, and in the amount of ink in which individual species as the main products, printing ink factory in recent years developed more prominent, such as Zhongshan Yip Ink Co., Ltd. (gravure printing ink), the Chemical Co., Ltd. Zhejiang Yongkang (intaglio ink), etc., basically all the way to go professional, and take the road of market-driven.
In recent years domestic Packaging Printing The rapid development around the base is also up Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Guangdong’s Pearl River Delta and Chaoshan so. The past few years in the packaging printing ink industry to develop faster, driven, and have a more obvious feature is the introduction of complete sets of the first Printing Equipment And ink, ink after localization, along with printing equipment in domestic.
Guangdong ink business in recent years has developed high-speed, large output of factories there. Dragon Ink Chemical Co., Ltd. Guangdong Zhaoqing, shenzhen Japan Ink Co., Ltd. Shenzhen, Guangdong Merlin Ink Group Co., Ltd., Zhongshan Yip Ink Co., Ltd., shantou Five Star Ink Factory, Jiangmen Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., zhuhai Yue Tong Ink Paint Co., Ltd., etc. Chaozhou region in particular, the development of the late 90′s there are dozens of printing ink manufacturers, and has several production of more than 2000t.