Recently, the famous packaging industry consulting company pyrrha, International group (Pira International) on their official website released the company about the global environmental printing ink the latest market survey report "environmental printing ink future--2014 market forecast". The report shows, print is trying to industry transformation to sustainable development, have environmental protection and economic benefit both of the market potential of considerable environmental printing ink. In 2009, global environmental printing ink market size of $5.8 billion, and is expected to reach $7.2 billion in 2014, the compound annual growth rate of 4.5%. The report from the key technology, printing process, terminal applications and regional distribution of environmental impact is the main tendency of ink market is analyzed.
Environmental protection technology innovation
For printing ink for manufacturing, environmental printing ink and is not a fresh vocabulary. Since the 1990 s, governments to increase the harmful material emissions limits, printing ink manufacturers are also beginning for enterprise to meet the regulations substitute, but to ink on recycling will inevitably increase enterprise cost. Water-based ink, based on renewable energy pulpous state printing ink, especially soy ink and other plant ink presence seems to have to ink market blew a stream of fresh air. At present, although people of printing ink the attention of environmental problems in constantly improve, but the enterprise more inclined to walk the path of sustainable development, for example in the ink used in recipes renewable resources.
According to the survey, environmental printing ink and sustainable development in recent years made significant ink progress, including: raw materials improve, make the ink in the ratio of performance to keep, meanwhile, has better ability of sustainable development; Use water-based ink solvent free replacement ink; Through the innovation printing ink, such as hewlett-packard Latex of water-based ink, the ink for existing products to offer an alternative to the environmental protection solution; Development use hot plastic UV ink and sustainable UV ink; Developed for inkjet, flexo and screen printing UV-LED ink; Research can provide higher linear velocity, the more stable humidity, lower the drying temperature (means lower power consumption) and the more small equipment volume of radiation drying system can; Development has more advantages than halogen lamp technology of solid state curing system, pulse xenon lamp and UV curing system-LED; Research and development DuoGe using UV-LED technology of ink-jet printing, soft and screen printing system; Development to promote UV/EB curing system (beam) in offset printing used in the course variable sleeve offset printing machine.
UV ink fastest growth
From the point of view of the printing process to analyze the environmental printing ink market, skin and international think, ink-jet printing will in 2009 ~ 2014 years have growth, the compound annual growth rate will reach 10%. As ink-jet printing gradually become the main printing mode sign field and caused the crash of silk screen printing, ink-jet printing is being widely used in office form and other fields, and gradually penetration to label printing market. Water-based ink used mainly in porous prints on things, and inkjet printing rely mainly on the UV ink in the more things on the a2 type printing, and the application in the next few years will continue to grow.
Therefore, from the kinds of environmental printing ink to see, skin and international think, fastest growing will be UV ink, it in 2009 ~ 2014 years of compound annual growth rate will reach 7%, the size of the market will increase from 1.28 billion euros to 2 billion euros. Other can give printing enterprise to bring the opportunity are in the areas of: the contraction of label, hot plastic type printing ink, paper printing ink, point-of-sale innovation leaflet display figure and the adornment such as glass printing printing and printing electronics, and other things.
Flexible packaging still multi-purpose solvent printing ink
In the environmental protection of the ink on the terminal application, according to the company introduces, whether water-based ink, environmental printing ink or mixed printing ink, they are mainly used in printing and rotate the narrow corrugated cardboard or textile printing, etc.
But there are two exceptions should pay attention, that is, magazines and body stickers. The former is mainly use hot and solid type offset printing machine or gravure machine for production, this process generally don't use environmental printing ink; While the latter if use UV inkjet printing ink, they need to ensure that the necessary flexibility. In addition, most of the flexible packaging field is now is still in use solvent printing ink, and the situation in a short time can't change.
Emerging market application to improve enthusiasm
In printing more mature developed areas, environmental printing ink is being widely used, and their growth rates significantly higher than traditional printing ink. In North America, for example, UV ink growth speed of a surprise. In some cases, people still use UV flexo ink to replace water-based flexo ink.
In Asia, South America and eastern Europe and other emerging markets, environmental printing ink will with the printing and packaging the development of the market and increased, but growth rate depends mainly on the terminal applications. In some markets, UV ink and UV inkjet ink development speed is fast, but because there is no strict environmental protection laws and regulations, the user to using environmental protection or sustainable the enthusiasm of the ink is not high. If these countries to the implementation of strict laws and regulations, the situation may be much better. For now, emerging market of the printing industry is still in the use of solvent ink and petroleum-based pulp, ink, but the whole is pushing in the direction of the environmental protection product development.
YinYe transformation, environmental protection laws and regulations will promote market development
At present, although environmental printing ink market foundation may also was weak, but the future it will give raw materials suppliers, equipment manufacturers and producers ink precious development opportunities. Printing is hard to sustainable development industry transformation, have environmental protection and economic benefit both of innovative products to emerge in endlessly, solvent and petroleum-based inks market is gradually by the latest development of the environmental protection product replaced.