Under the global epidemic, the domestic packaging and printing industry has not stopped marching towards Industry 4.0. Whether it is boutique gift boxes, folding color boxes, or cardboard boxes and pulp molded products, the enterprising spirit shown by the head enterprises is daunting.
Under the continuous digital and intelligent transformation, the packaging and printing industry is undergoing profound differentiation. In the face of more efficient and lower cost maintenance reduction, some enterprises that have not adjusted their strategic direction in time will become more passive.
What remarkable changes have taken place in packaging and printing industry 4.0 in the past 2021?
Yutong Lighthouse Factory: May change the pattern of boutique gift boxes
The packaging lighthouse factory Xuchang Yutong, which is widely concerned in the industry, has achieved 70% automation, in which the warehousing and logistics in the factory and the workshop transportation are basically fully automated. Although the lighthouse factory is still a long way from comprehensive intelligence, saving half of the labor cost and extremely high output and efficiency are enough to change the industrial pattern of boutique gift boxes in 2022.
The achievements of Xuchang Intelligent Factory come from the huge investment of 1.25 billion yuan and the R&D achievements of 300 automation R&D teams. The capital and technical barriers of most enterprises may be difficult to overcome.
Hexing Digital Intelligent Factory: Change the pattern of folding corrugated boxes
Hubei Hexin Intelligent Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. is a folding corrugated box intelligent factory invested nearly 200 million yuan by Hexing Packaging, a leading paper packaging company. It has introduced the most advanced Italian satellite preprint machine in the world, as well as the digital printer applied to industrialization by Hewlett Packard of the United States. It has built an Industry 4.0 intelligent chemical factory with the highlights of equipment intelligence, detection intelligence, logistics intelligence, management intelligence, and central regulation intelligence.
Through the perfect combination of digital printing and high-speed flexographic roll printing with carton pre printing process, the intelligent factory can produce 2 million paper (color) boxes per day in the next two years, which can be said to be shocking. Due to the consideration of personalized printing, high-speed printing, low-cost preprint and other aspects, Hexing Packaging will once again lead a new era of intelligent manufacturing of global folding corrugated boxes.
Cloud printing industry Internet: change the whole industrial chain pattern of packaging industry
Shanying International's cloud printing industry has operated the packaging industry Internet for two years. The platform plans to integrate the production capacity of 20000 to 30000 partner packaging companies in about three years to build an industrial Internet operation model for the packaging industry. While strengthening the paper industry, gradually form the industrial Internet supply end of cloud factories, cloud logistics, and cloud warehouse distribution, form the demand end of one-stop procurement, collective procurement, third-party e-commerce, and form the connection end of online payment, electronic contract, cloud ERP, big data, and so on.
Yunyin empowers packaging enterprises by gathering single, Baoyintong, Zhikong Baobao and Yunyin Yougong 3+1 toolbox, and realizes single factory efficiency improvement and multi factory cooperation with digitalization as the link. Cloud Printing will build the world's largest cloud factory alliance with the industrial Internet as the carrier and the improvement of industrial efficiency as the basis. From the third quarterly report of Shanying International, the convergence effect of the Internet in the cloud printing industry has emerged.
High speed and low-cost digital printing: change the pattern of small batch customization
Since the epidemic, in addition to vaccines, nucleic acid reagents and isolation hotels, the most popular brands are Guochao and Wanghong. The establishment of more than two million e-commerce brands with the characteristics of personalization, high face value and high quality will also promote the prosperity of small batch personalized packaging next year.
It is gratifying that the problem of high cost and slow speed of digital printing has been solved satisfactorily. HP Indigo uses a blanket to transfer ink to media. The blanket is heated, melted and mixed with ElectroInk particles to form a smooth film. In this way, a certain image is generated on the blanket, and then transferred to the substrate through direct contact. Get high-quality images comparable to offset printing, and accurately reproduce the luster and texture of the substrate.
For the nano digital printing of Landa, the speed of the opposite format has reached 6500 sheets/hour, and will soon reach 10000 sheets/hour in 2022. Moreover, the cost of digital printing has been infinitely close to that of traditional offset printing. With the digital printing solutions of INDIGO and Landa, the biggest bottleneck of personalized customized packaging has been broken.
Valmet and Finlin Together: Will Change the Pattern of Pulp Mold Packaging
The news that the 300 ton/day pulp molding (plant fiber molding) tableware production line was about to be put into production by the Packaging Group caused a great shock in the pulp molding industry. It is said that Valmet and Finlin, two European companies, are developing and using wet pulp direct molding technology to produce pulp molding (plant fiber molding) disposable tableware production lines. The ultimate target capacity is 300 tons per day and 100000 tons per year for one production line.
Pulp molding (plant fiber molding) tableware production line with a daily output of 300 tons. If this technology is successfully developed, it may have an imaginable impact on shallow dishes, large quantities of disposable pulp molded tableware products, disposable plastic tableware, and aluminum disposable tableware. Moreover, the equipment is a direct wet slurry raw material, and the plant is fossil fuel free, so it is very competitive in terms of carbon footprint. The plant will be built in Finland's Mets ä сä nekoski Industrial Park, which will start construction this autumn and is expected to be completed and put into operation by the end of 2021.
In the coming 2022, when the packers can't see the direction clearly, they can think about the above five things that can change the industrial pattern. It's right to follow the leader.