Asian flexo market

In recent years, the flexographic-related industries in Europe and America have greatly assisted the Asian region. At the same time, they have also introduced flexographic technology into the vast Asian region and opened up the market. In the future, this trend will be further developed and will affect the Japanese market. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the trend of the Japanese market. In the products manufactured in the Far East and Southeast Asia, the packaging materials are printed by flexo printing and exported to Japan. The following brief introduction from several aspects.
1, print quality. Under the influence of Japan, the quality of flexo printing in East Asia continues to increase. Today, the view that the quality of flexo printing is not high is gradually away from us. That is to say, although in the past printing on plastic film was based on gravure printing, today, along with the introduction of the latest flexographic presses produced in Europe and the United States, resin plates and ceramic meshes necessary for improving the quality of flexo printing are added. The rapid development of rollers, sleeves, inks, etc., flexo printing has also been advancing rapidly in recent years.
2, printing materials and infrastructure. The highest speed is 50-100m/min when using gravure for high quality printing on stretched polyethylene (PE) plastic film, and even if the printing speed is above 300m/min when printing with CI flexo printing machine Can ensure the accuracy of registration. Therefore, for Indian printers who are looking for high-quality printing and can print on all plastic films, flexo has certain advantages.
In Asia, the infrastructure of the flexo system has been set up. At the same time, high-quality printing plates and inks have begun to be supplied. At present, they are working to supply flexographic plates that are much cheaper than gravure plates.
3, cheap flexographic printing presses and labor costs. In Asia, flexographic presses made in Hong Kong and Taiwan are already on the market. These machines are much cheaper than the gravure presses produced in Europe and America.
On the other hand, in Asia, PE plastic films are also packaged using simple packaging machines that are semi-automatically or manually operated. In flexo printing, CI flexographic printing machines are used to double the cylindrical plastic film at the same time. print. This virtually reduces labor costs.
4, circulation market. Along with the development of supermarkets, packaging also tends to develop in the direction of small batches and short delivery times. In addition, the design style of packaging has also been frequently changed, and in Asia, it has begun to realize that flexo printing can adapt to this development trend (short delivery time).
In the past 10 years, in some large supermarkets in Asia, a large number of polyethylene (PE) plastic films have been used to pack daily necessities, frozen foods, salads, and other products. As an ideal packaging method, polypropylene (PP) plastic film has been applied to the packaging of food and pasta products. Especially in Malaysia, polyethylene (PE) plastic film packaging has been used for the packaging of sliced ​​bread, which also promotes flexo printing. A driving force for high quality development.