According to incomplete statistics, the global packaging market size will reach 1.14 trillion US dollars, and the output value of China's packaging industry can approximately reach 2.5 trillion yuan, accounting for about 25% of the global packaging market. As an important component of the packaging industry, the Chinese packaging and printing industry accounts for more than 20% of the global packaging and printing market. With the rapid development of the domestic e-commerce industry, the demand for express packaging, food packaging, fast-moving consumer goods packaging, etc. is constantly increasing, bringing a broad market space for the development of the packaging and printing industry.
Green and low-carbon development leads the industry
There are numerous types of packaging and printing in China. There are approximately 11,000 packaging and printing enterprises, among which about 8,000 are flexible packaging printing enterprises, accounting for as high as 72.14%. Mo Lixin, a professor at Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, pointed out that among domestic flexible packaging printing enterprises, 85% to 90% use gravure printing, and the application proportion of flexographic printing in flexible packaging is less than 10%, while the market share of flexible packaging printing in Europe and North America exceeds 50%. Compared with traditional gravure printing, flexographic printing uses water-based ink instead of solvent-based ink, which has a significant advantage in reducing VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and carbon dioxide emissions. In advanced environmental protection countries and regions such as North America and Europe, flexographic printing, as a green printing technology, has gradually become mainstream and is widely used in the field of flexible packaging printing. Under the premise of meeting the application requirements of packaging printing, gradually replacing the currently widely used gravure printing technology with flexographic printing technology will help achieve the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction in the packaging printing industry.
In terms of technological application and innovation, digitalization, automation, intelligence and artificial intelligence will become the top priorities for future development. Digital printing, with its high flexibility, personalized customization capabilities and short printing cycle, can precisely meet the market's demand for small-batch and diversified products, and its application scope is expanding day by day. Meanwhile, the application scenarios of automated equipment and intelligent production systems in the packaging and printing industry are constantly increasing. Automated production lines can not only enhance production efficiency and reduce labor costs, but also minimize errors, providing strong support for enterprises to improve product quality and production efficiency. In addition, intelligent production has become the future development trend of the packaging and printing industry. By introducing technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things, intelligent management and remote monitoring of the production process can be achieved, further enhancing the production management level of enterprises and their ability to respond to emergencies.
