In the production workshop of Hebei Wanjie Machinery Technology Co., Ltd. in Yutian County, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, workers are busy assembling the intelligent control combined PS plate intermittent wheel transfer brush machine. This equipment can complete more than ten processes such as offset printing, flexographic printing, cold and hot pressing, and variable information die cutting at one time. All the processes are highly automated and intelligent. In Yutian County, printing and packaging machinery enterprises such as Yuanchuang automation, Shengtian printing machine, Juxing printing machine and Xinlian printing machine are all busy. Workers are working overtime to make orders.
Yutian county is known as the "hometown of China's printing press machinery". In recent years, the printing machine machinery industry of the county has been based on scientific and technological innovation. Many enterprises have carried out technical cooperation with Tsinghua University and Peking University, jointly established research and development centers or laboratories, constantly improved product structure, improved product performance, and formed obvious product technology advantages.
At present, there are 134 printing and packaging machinery enterprises in Yutian County. The main products are die-cutting machines, gilding machines, film laminating machines, paper mounting machines, box pasting machines, packaging machines, and more than 120 varieties such as sawing machines, cutting machines, corner cutting machines and punching machines. They are not only sold throughout the country, but also exported to more than 50 countries and regions such as Russia, the United States, Britain, Australia and Japan, achieving an annual output value of 2.5 billion yuan. In addition, the county also has 189 specialized supporting processing enterprises for printing and packaging machinery enterprises. The printing machine accessories produced account for more than 50% of the outsourced parts of printing machine enterprises, forming a relatively complete industrial chain with obvious competitive advantages. The county's printing machine characteristic industrial cluster has become one of the "six major industrial bases" of the national printing machine.