The total output value of the world printing ink industry is 13 billion U.S. dollars and the total output is 3 million tons. The first is the United States, about 1 million tons; Japan is the second, about 450,000 tons; Germany is the third, about 370,000 tons; the Chinese market is about 200,000 tons, ranking fourth.
In the United States, offset printing inks account for half of the total market share, flexographic inks account for 20%, and digital and gravure inks account for 10%.
In Europe, flexographic inks are used more widely, and the Japanese market for digital printing inks is even larger. With respect to some digital printing and non-pressure printing, it has shown the greatest growth rate. In addition, other environmental friendly inks are water-based inks, UV-curable inks, and electron beam-curable inks. These inks have higher formulating requirements than traditional solvent inks.
Global industrial mergers and combinations In recent years, the wave of industrial mergers and cooperation will inevitably affect the ink industry and allow the ink industry to reform and combine. For example, in the last two years, Sun Chemical and Flint Ink have cooperated more extensively in the supply of ink for certain small varieties. In the world ink market, Japan has Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., Daeki Ink Chemical Co. (including its subsidiary Sun Chemicals Co., Ltd., and Gao's Lowry Co.), and BASF Printing Systems Co., Ltd. in Europe; and Flint Ink Co., Ltd. in the United States. The five companies will occupy 40% of the world's ink market sales.
In terms of combination, take Flint as an example. Let's take a look at the company's several big actions:
(a) The Schmidt Brothers Ink Company in Germany was incorporated into Flint European Ink Company and has been confirmed by the US MI/USA. After the merger, the company name was Flint/Schmidt Co., Ltd., and the Et CoKG company Frankfurt/Main (Frankfurt/Main) was also merged. This became a tripartite European printing ink branch of Flint. The company employs 1,500 people and last year produced more than 450 million euros. Flint Europe is located in Wolvekhampton, United Kingdom. As a result of the integration of the Flint Group, its original Nordic or Canadian solvent division (a subsidiary of Schmidt) was closed in May 2002.
(b) To meet the growing demand for UV/EB inks in North America, these inks can be used for corrugated board printing and label printing. Flint also established a new factory in Toronto. The new plant covers an area of ​​86,000 square meters, starts 7 days a week, and is continuously produced 24 hours a day. In this way, Flint can completely meet customer needs. The new products they developed are: ARROWBEAM, MATRIX and GEMINI. The three series of ink products are special mixed type EB inks. MATRIX inks use UV curing series of raw materials, and their use parameters range from a wide range of parameters. The GEMINI ink series is a hybrid offset ink series that uses a common oil-based ink and UV-curable ink process.
Flint Ink is the world's largest private ink manufacturing company. Founded in 1920, Flint Ink is currently the second largest ink company in the world with an annual sales value of US$1.4 billion. The company employs more than 4,000 people and has more than 100 branch offices worldwide. Products include: sheetfed and web offset inks, flexo inks, gravure inks, UV/EB inks, and digital printing inks. (Flint recently cooperated with the newspaper newspaper printing centers of the four newspapers in Beijing. Special reports have already been made in China and will not be repeated here.)
European ink manufacturing industry is faced with the impact of economic recession and market depression. It is necessary to reduce costs and increase labor productivity in order to jump out of losses (that is, jump out of the deficit).
The face of unfavorable economic conditions will inevitably cause the re-combination spontaneously from the management of European ink companies. The countermeasure they take is:
Increased variety - AKZO Nobel invested 190 million euros in its ink factory in the Netherlands in November 2001 to make it operational. And add new products - wide label cover varnish.
AKZO Nobel Company decided that ink production could not just stay in the main business product, because the company has not yet become a global leader in the industry.
Expanding the portfolio - BASF Printing Systems focused on expanding its portfolio of companies last year. Combines printing inks, printing plates, and ink pigments into a single subdivision.
BASF is the only manufacturer that produces inks and printing plates. Its expertise, and its overall evaluation, are attributed to technological innovations. This includes materials from raw materials to final products, and a total of polymers that can be used in inks and printing plates. Can make color adjustments and paper tests.
BASF (Drucksysteme) Printing Systems is a global supplier of fine chemicals for the printing industry.
Reduced scale, reduced costs - Siegwerk ink company was originally a medium-sized home-ink production plant in Germany, and it carried out its own sheet-fed ink sales with fundamentally different organizations, and they were sold to peers. One of the competitors is Epple Druckfarben. At present, Siegwerk ink company's current countermeasures are: to reduce production capacity by 15%, reduce the cost of raw materials for purchase, through the purchase of common raw materials, with the best formula to achieve the purpose of increasing profits.
For such a medium and small-sized ink company, in the face of the slow economic recovery in Europe this year, it is not easy to take the lead to achieve the survival of the fittest.
The European ink industry is showing a wavy upward trend, but it is slowly growing. The European economy has begun to recover and is moving in a fast-moving direction. From the first quarter of 2002 to the second quarter of 2002, the average annual growth rate was 2%.
In the whole of Europe, ink production showed an increasing trend. The slower growth was in Germany, which was behind some of France and Italy. However, it is less than the growth rate of 3% in 2001 and actually only increased by 1%.
In the printing industry, the observation of changes in individual items between other countries and regions is basically the same as in the previous year, and the change is not great.
Packaging inks and printing process reform In addition to printing and publishing, packaging inks are an important growth area in Europe. The packaging market for food and medicine is undoubtedly much smaller than other industries affected by the recession. Because regardless of economic conditions, people's needs for eating, drinking, and taking drugs are relatively stable. The trend in the packaging market has confirmed that there will certainly be development after the economic downturn.
The packaging process is an ever-evolving technology that will continue to pose new challenges for ink makers. Technological processes have to be changed from one system to another and constantly changing. The development of new varieties in the ink series is to be reproduced and become an integral part of the normal packaging market business. And, let this part of the process technology become an important aspect of enhancing the competitive advantage of packaging.
After Siegwerk reorganized last year, it was full of vitality and the source of packaging ink was more concentrated. It is believed that the company may become a leader in technological innovation in this region.
For ink manufacturers, the packaging process is also a fringe science that can be continuously improved. According to the principle of continuous improvement, its invention belongs to a relatively new technology. Whoever has the right technical process can publish its innovative information online, which is beneficial to other packaging potential.
Opportunities for UV inks There are many process technologies currently packaged, and a large number are due to changes in flexo and flexible packaging - that is, short-lived (immediate printing). This provides more opportunities for UV inks and digital printing applications in packaging.
In all prints in Europe, UV inks are now forecast to show a rising trend. Last year's annual report showed that it accounted for about 6-7%. The development of packaging printing is the driving force for ink development. However, in turn, UV inks have promoted the development of a variety of different prints.
In Germany, other universal ink products do not show their advantages even if adjusted for price, and only UV inks can enter new markets.
The current trend is: To meet the needs of short-lived packaging, it is necessary to produce more high-quality UV inks to meet the needs of high-level flexo printing.
The European UV ink market is currently becoming a foothold for many ink manufacturers to try to gain full development.
Providing inexpensive UV inks is inevitably an effective way to reduce the price of UV ink prints spirally.
The inkjet market and digital printing new UV technology process can promote the market development in some printing fields, through the digital printing system throughout the development process. The problem is that the ink drying is slow, surface adhesion and other ink properties need to be improved, and the quality needs to be improved. This refers to the entire application of the digital printing process.
The results of research and development are not limited to the use of raw materials, but the chemicals (intermediates) used in the ink production process and their formulations must be considered for quick drying and drying during spraying. The newly developed UV ink products are mainly used in digital printing.
The British Pira International Consulting Company believes that the European Union’s sales of digital presses increased by 9.5% last year, and it is predicted that the overall EU printing market situation will be better in the future.
In 2002, the EU’s digital print sales growth rate was 12.5%, and the trend will be better next year, while the EU’s annual report shows that the growth rate may be slower than it actually is. It is predicted that by 2010, the EU’s sales in digital printing will reach 20 billion euros (ie, 18 billion US dollars), which will account for the third place in the entire European printing market. By that time, the market share of digital printing was 20%, more than gravure, and the outstanding advantages of plain printing accounted for 57% of the market share.
By 2010, digital printing will account for 43% of the entire printing market, with offset printing accounting for 37% and gravure printing for 5%.
In the United States, offset printing inks account for half of the total market share, flexographic inks account for 20%, and digital and gravure inks account for 10%.
In Europe, flexographic inks are used more widely, and the Japanese market for digital printing inks is even larger. With respect to some digital printing and non-pressure printing, it has shown the greatest growth rate. In addition, other environmental friendly inks are water-based inks, UV-curable inks, and electron beam-curable inks. These inks have higher formulating requirements than traditional solvent inks.
Global industrial mergers and combinations In recent years, the wave of industrial mergers and cooperation will inevitably affect the ink industry and allow the ink industry to reform and combine. For example, in the last two years, Sun Chemical and Flint Ink have cooperated more extensively in the supply of ink for certain small varieties. In the world ink market, Japan has Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., Daeki Ink Chemical Co. (including its subsidiary Sun Chemicals Co., Ltd., and Gao's Lowry Co.), and BASF Printing Systems Co., Ltd. in Europe; and Flint Ink Co., Ltd. in the United States. The five companies will occupy 40% of the world's ink market sales.
In terms of combination, take Flint as an example. Let's take a look at the company's several big actions:
(a) The Schmidt Brothers Ink Company in Germany was incorporated into Flint European Ink Company and has been confirmed by the US MI/USA. After the merger, the company name was Flint/Schmidt Co., Ltd., and the Et CoKG company Frankfurt/Main (Frankfurt/Main) was also merged. This became a tripartite European printing ink branch of Flint. The company employs 1,500 people and last year produced more than 450 million euros. Flint Europe is located in Wolvekhampton, United Kingdom. As a result of the integration of the Flint Group, its original Nordic or Canadian solvent division (a subsidiary of Schmidt) was closed in May 2002.
(b) To meet the growing demand for UV/EB inks in North America, these inks can be used for corrugated board printing and label printing. Flint also established a new factory in Toronto. The new plant covers an area of ​​86,000 square meters, starts 7 days a week, and is continuously produced 24 hours a day. In this way, Flint can completely meet customer needs. The new products they developed are: ARROWBEAM, MATRIX and GEMINI. The three series of ink products are special mixed type EB inks. MATRIX inks use UV curing series of raw materials, and their use parameters range from a wide range of parameters. The GEMINI ink series is a hybrid offset ink series that uses a common oil-based ink and UV-curable ink process.
Flint Ink is the world's largest private ink manufacturing company. Founded in 1920, Flint Ink is currently the second largest ink company in the world with an annual sales value of US$1.4 billion. The company employs more than 4,000 people and has more than 100 branch offices worldwide. Products include: sheetfed and web offset inks, flexo inks, gravure inks, UV/EB inks, and digital printing inks. (Flint recently cooperated with the newspaper newspaper printing centers of the four newspapers in Beijing. Special reports have already been made in China and will not be repeated here.)
European ink manufacturing industry is faced with the impact of economic recession and market depression. It is necessary to reduce costs and increase labor productivity in order to jump out of losses (that is, jump out of the deficit).
The face of unfavorable economic conditions will inevitably cause the re-combination spontaneously from the management of European ink companies. The countermeasure they take is:
Increased variety - AKZO Nobel invested 190 million euros in its ink factory in the Netherlands in November 2001 to make it operational. And add new products - wide label cover varnish.
AKZO Nobel Company decided that ink production could not just stay in the main business product, because the company has not yet become a global leader in the industry.
Expanding the portfolio - BASF Printing Systems focused on expanding its portfolio of companies last year. Combines printing inks, printing plates, and ink pigments into a single subdivision.
BASF is the only manufacturer that produces inks and printing plates. Its expertise, and its overall evaluation, are attributed to technological innovations. This includes materials from raw materials to final products, and a total of polymers that can be used in inks and printing plates. Can make color adjustments and paper tests.
BASF (Drucksysteme) Printing Systems is a global supplier of fine chemicals for the printing industry.
Reduced scale, reduced costs - Siegwerk ink company was originally a medium-sized home-ink production plant in Germany, and it carried out its own sheet-fed ink sales with fundamentally different organizations, and they were sold to peers. One of the competitors is Epple Druckfarben. At present, Siegwerk ink company's current countermeasures are: to reduce production capacity by 15%, reduce the cost of raw materials for purchase, through the purchase of common raw materials, with the best formula to achieve the purpose of increasing profits.
For such a medium and small-sized ink company, in the face of the slow economic recovery in Europe this year, it is not easy to take the lead to achieve the survival of the fittest.
The European ink industry is showing a wavy upward trend, but it is slowly growing. The European economy has begun to recover and is moving in a fast-moving direction. From the first quarter of 2002 to the second quarter of 2002, the average annual growth rate was 2%.
In the whole of Europe, ink production showed an increasing trend. The slower growth was in Germany, which was behind some of France and Italy. However, it is less than the growth rate of 3% in 2001 and actually only increased by 1%.
In the printing industry, the observation of changes in individual items between other countries and regions is basically the same as in the previous year, and the change is not great.
Packaging inks and printing process reform In addition to printing and publishing, packaging inks are an important growth area in Europe. The packaging market for food and medicine is undoubtedly much smaller than other industries affected by the recession. Because regardless of economic conditions, people's needs for eating, drinking, and taking drugs are relatively stable. The trend in the packaging market has confirmed that there will certainly be development after the economic downturn.
The packaging process is an ever-evolving technology that will continue to pose new challenges for ink makers. Technological processes have to be changed from one system to another and constantly changing. The development of new varieties in the ink series is to be reproduced and become an integral part of the normal packaging market business. And, let this part of the process technology become an important aspect of enhancing the competitive advantage of packaging.
After Siegwerk reorganized last year, it was full of vitality and the source of packaging ink was more concentrated. It is believed that the company may become a leader in technological innovation in this region.
For ink manufacturers, the packaging process is also a fringe science that can be continuously improved. According to the principle of continuous improvement, its invention belongs to a relatively new technology. Whoever has the right technical process can publish its innovative information online, which is beneficial to other packaging potential.
Opportunities for UV inks There are many process technologies currently packaged, and a large number are due to changes in flexo and flexible packaging - that is, short-lived (immediate printing). This provides more opportunities for UV inks and digital printing applications in packaging.
In all prints in Europe, UV inks are now forecast to show a rising trend. Last year's annual report showed that it accounted for about 6-7%. The development of packaging printing is the driving force for ink development. However, in turn, UV inks have promoted the development of a variety of different prints.
In Germany, other universal ink products do not show their advantages even if adjusted for price, and only UV inks can enter new markets.
The current trend is: To meet the needs of short-lived packaging, it is necessary to produce more high-quality UV inks to meet the needs of high-level flexo printing.
The European UV ink market is currently becoming a foothold for many ink manufacturers to try to gain full development.
Providing inexpensive UV inks is inevitably an effective way to reduce the price of UV ink prints spirally.
The inkjet market and digital printing new UV technology process can promote the market development in some printing fields, through the digital printing system throughout the development process. The problem is that the ink drying is slow, surface adhesion and other ink properties need to be improved, and the quality needs to be improved. This refers to the entire application of the digital printing process.
The results of research and development are not limited to the use of raw materials, but the chemicals (intermediates) used in the ink production process and their formulations must be considered for quick drying and drying during spraying. The newly developed UV ink products are mainly used in digital printing.
The British Pira International Consulting Company believes that the European Union’s sales of digital presses increased by 9.5% last year, and it is predicted that the overall EU printing market situation will be better in the future.
In 2002, the EU’s digital print sales growth rate was 12.5%, and the trend will be better next year, while the EU’s annual report shows that the growth rate may be slower than it actually is. It is predicted that by 2010, the EU’s sales in digital printing will reach 20 billion euros (ie, 18 billion US dollars), which will account for the third place in the entire European printing market. By that time, the market share of digital printing was 20%, more than gravure, and the outstanding advantages of plain printing accounted for 57% of the market share.
By 2010, digital printing will account for 43% of the entire printing market, with offset printing accounting for 37% and gravure printing for 5%.
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