Satellite Flexographic Printing Press in Our Policy Advantage

In our country, flexographic printing has become the fastest growing kind of printing technology. Since 2014, the sales volume of satellite flexo printing machines in the Chinese mainland has increased rapidly. According to the data of the Flexo Printing Branch of the China Press Association, the sales volume of satellite flexo printing machines in the Chinese mainland in 2021 has reached 570 units, with a year-on-year growth of 50.8%.

On the one hand, under the pressure of the national environmental protection policy, some printing enterprises using the traditional gravure printing process to print non-absorbent substrates began to turn to flexographic printing process; On the other hand, with the rapid rise of domestic labor costs, the satellite flexographic printing process with high quality, high efficiency and low cost has been widely used.

According to the ever-changing market demand, the future development trend of some domestic soft package printing enterprises is roughly as follows:

1) Increase the market share of domestic pure water-based ink flexographic printing presses, reduce environmental pollution, reduce losses and costs;

2) With the support of the government, flexible packaging color printing enterprises should continuously invest in environmental protection, recycling and energy saving resources, take responsibility for the society, make corresponding contributions to human environmental protection, and improve their public image.

3) In the process of participating in the global environmental protection, soft package color printing enterprises should keep strict requirements on enterprises, improve their competitiveness, go abroad, participate in the global soft packaging market competition; For global brand enterprises, brand products to provide green pollution-free materials, improve the international environmental competitiveness.

At present, domestic flexographic printing accounts for 35% of the packaging printing market share, domestic flexographic printing market has great market potential.Satellite flexo printing machines are the main equipment. In the past five years, the sales volume of satellite flexo printing machines continues to rise, from 150 units in 2017 to 574 units in 2021. At present, Chinese satellite flexo printing machine has realized domestic production, the domestic equipment accounts for about 98%. With the continuous optimization of the production technology of satellite flexo printing machine, the export volume of satellite flexo printing machine has increased from 60 units in 2017 to 200 units in 2021.