Prospects for China's ink market in the next few years

Experts predict that in the next 3-5 years, the demand for lithographic offset printing inks, screen printing inks, and flexographic ink special inks will increase in the domestic market. The following is an overview of the domestic market demand for various ink products.

â—† Lithographic ink: In the future, the market demand will increase steadily, but the rate will not be too high. It will increase at a rate of 5%-6%, accounting for 40%-45%, of which the speed of web offset printing inks will increase. It will be faster.

â—† Letterpress ink: The total proportion will drop, but the proportion of flexographic ink will continue to rise, which is also consistent with the development trend of the United States, Japan and other developed countries.

â—† Gravure ink: The general situation is in a stable state, but the printing inks and printings in plastic inks are in an upward trend. This is different from the international trend, because it involves environmental recycling and other issues.

â—† Mesh version ink: The market sales tend to increase, mainly due to the increase in the use of metal, glass and plastic screen inks. Moreover, the screen printing equipment has already broken the backward condition of the original manual printers. In some regions, foreign advanced screen printing equipment has been introduced to increase the amount of screen ink.

â—† Dedicated and special inks: The general trend is that the usage is increasing day by day. For example, printing inks, anti-counterfeiting inks, pearlescent inks, signage inks, fluorescent inks, and phosphorescent inks are all increasing in usage as the market demand increases.

With China's accession to the WTO and people's increasing awareness of environmental protection, advanced alcohol-soluble and water-soluble inks and other environmentally friendly inks will show rapid growth.

The printing industry must consolidate and develop the existing offset printing production capacity, improve gravure printing, screen printing, inkjet printing, and curve surface printing capabilities, develop flexo printing, and improve post-press processing technology. We must vigorously develop high-end packaging products, increase the added value of products and meet the needs of the domestic market and exports.

The future ink development goal is to meet the needs of multi-color, high-speed, fast-drying, non-pollution and low consumption, improve the quality of thermosetting rotary inks, flexographic inks, and other products, improve the adaptability to modern printing processes and product stability. Sex, actively develops a variety of water-based inks, waterless offset inks, food packaging inks, and lightfast inks that are still in short supply and gaps in the country.