Domestic demand for printing inks will show an upward trend

According to Liu Keqian, Deputy Secretary-General of the Printing Materials Division of the China Printing and Equipment Equipment Industry Association, there are currently more than 300 specialized ink manufacturing companies in the country and more than 20,000 employees in the industry. The annual ink production capacity reaches over 250,000 tons, ranking second only to the The top three countries in the world are the United States, Japan, and Germany.


The year-on-year increase in ink consumption in China was 10.05% and 13.42% in 2002 and 2003, respectively. According to the basic requirements of the “28-character” policy for technological development of China's printing and equipment and equipment industry from 1996 to 2010, and from the current status and development of China's ink-related industries—printing, printing machinery manufacturing, and papermaking, by the end of 2005. The total consumption of printing ink in China will reach a level of around 300,000 tons per year.

In recent years, offset printing ink still occupies a dominant position in the market, and its share is generally more than 50%. As China is the largest consumer of newspapers in the world today, with the rapid development of China’s newspaper industry, web offset printing inks for news publishing and printing are used. The growth rate will be faster; the general trend of demand for gravure printing inks is stable, given the rapid rise of food and other commodity packaging, demand for plastic printing inks, food packaging printing inks, and water-based inks will be presented. The upward trend; the market demand for letterpress printing inks will be greatly reduced. China's printing industry has already bid farewell to “lead and fire”. This is basically in line with the internationally advanced countries’ history, but the flexographic printing inks With the rapid growth of the packaging and printing industry, the proportion will increase significantly; the demand for the screen printing ink market will show an upward trend. This is mainly due to the rapid development of outdoor large-scale advertising and other businesses in recent years, and some companies have begun to introduce Screen printing foreign advanced equipment and technology, especially glass, plastic, metal, fabric, etc. Outside groups, and many other types of substrates by screen printing ink usage is growing, leading to its market demand will continue to increase.

With the rapid and steady development of China's national economy, the market is prosperous, various high-end packaging and printing, bill printing, document printing, securities printing, and banknote printing are rapidly expanding, and as people’s social civilization progresses, people’s awareness of environmental protection has increased. The market demand for anti-counterfeit inks, special inks, and various environmentally friendly inks should be on the rise as a whole.

Looking to the future is promising. At present, China's major substrates - paper and paperboard, per capita consumption of the United States is about one-eighth. This gap has just shown that China's printing industry and even printing inks have a vast market for development, with great potential for development.