Market analysis of the downstream application fields of Digital jet printing ink industry in China in 2021

Source: China Business Information Network

With the booming development of digital printing market and policy support, printing ink sales also maintained a sustained growth. In recent years, China's digital jet printing ink market scale has maintained an average annual growth rate of more than 20%, the market space is large, in 2018, China's jet printing ink market scale of 98,400 tons, is expected to reach 215,000 tons in 2022.

Data source: China Printing and Equipment Industry Association and China Commercial Industry

Textile digital printing field

Printing and dyeing is an important link in the textile industry chain and a key process to enhance the added value of textiles. Printing and dyeing technology is the general term of pre-treatment, dyeing, printing, finishing, washing and other processes, among which printing technology is the process of printing various patterns and patterns on textiles. At present, the printing process is mainly divided into traditional screen printing and digital inkjet printing. At present in the field of high-end textile printing, digital inkjet printing has formed an obvious trend to replace the traditional screen printing.

China's textile digital printing technology started late, and experienced four stages: technical exploration, proofing and customization, small batch production and mass production. Many key technologies of digital printing ink in China, such as stability, color saturation, matching with nozzle and ink supply system, adaptability to textile fabrics and other aspects, as well as grinding, filtering, dispersion and other key processes have been made breakthroughs to a certain extent. Domestic digital printing ink chromatography is more complete, in color rate, brightness, light resistance, chlorine fastness, soaping fastness, dry and wet friction, reproducibility and other aspects can meet the export requirements, and the price and import ink compared to have a greater competitive advantage.

Advertising image digital printing field

Outdoor advertising is the use of buildings, structures, roads, traffic and other municipal facilities, means of transport and other outdoor carrier, on billboards, neon lights, electronic display device, electronic version, Windows, light boxes, physical model and the introduction of post release form of goods, services or public welfare facilities, is an important application field of digital jet printing. At present, the regional focus of China's outdoor advertising industry is east China, North China and South China. With the continuous advancement of China's urbanization construction and rapid economic development, compared with the saturated first-tier city market, the speed of outdoor advertising to the second and third-tier cities will exceed people's expectations, and become a new market growth point of the industry in the future.

UV inkjet printing is very suitable for outdoor display images because of its advantages of being suitable for most substrates, high adaptability to harsh environment and high printing efficiency. The distribution concentration of UV digital jet printing ink enterprises in China is high, more than half of the enterprises are concentrated in south China, the main reason is that UV technology in Guangdong province is more advanced; The second is east China, the main reason is that east China has a large demand for UV ink. With the rapid development of UV inkjet printing technology, everything from print nozzle to ink to equipment is rapidly updated. Higher resolution printheads, smaller droplet sizes and higher printing reliability are all driving the overall improvement in printing quality, and the market demand for UV inks will increase significantly.

Packaging and publications digital printing field

The printing industry mainly includes packaging printing, printing of books and periodicals and commercial printing, etc. China is the largest packaging and printing market in the world. According to the statistics of The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, In 2018, China's printing and copying industry (including publication printing, packaging and decoration printing, other printing, special printing, copying and printing materials supply and marketing) achieved a revenue of 1,372.756 billion yuan, an increase of 7.99% compared with 2016. Among them, the total revenue of publication printing and packaging decoration printing is 1239.796 billion yuan, accounting for more than 90% of the total revenue of the printing and replication industry.

Research Institute Organized by State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and China Commercial Industry Research Institute

Architectural decoration digital printing field

All kinds of glass, ceramic tile and floor decoration materials in architectural decoration are involved in decorative printing. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in 2019, the added value of China's building materials industry increased by 8.5% year on year, and the production of main building materials products maintained overall growth; Among them, the output of flat glass is 930 million weight cases, up 6.6% year on year; The output of porcelain tiles, ceramic tiles and sanitary ceramics increased by 7.5%, 7.4% and 10.7%, respectively. China is a major ceramic manufacturer and consumer. In 2019, the main business income of China's ceramic enterprises reached 435.4 billion yuan, with a compound growth rate of 8.5%, and the ceramic output reached 10.18 billion square meters. In terms of floor decoration materials, the global market size of floor decoration materials was usd 302.11 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach USD 331.8 billion in 2020.

Electronic circuit digital printing field

At present, traditional manufacturing methods of electronic components and circuit boards mainly rely on the etching process, which is easy to cause serious environmental pollution problems, and has complex production process, high cost and limited application on flexible substrates. The electronic printing process is the use of inkjet technology to print functional ink materials on various substrates, and these ink materials have special functions such as electric conductivity; At the same time can no longer rely on the properties of the substrate itself, in silicon crystal, glass, ceramics and other hard substrate or paper, plastic, cloth and other soft substrate printing, can even be printed on the elastic substrate, the generation of electronic components or circuits can be stretched. Compared with traditional etching process, electronic printing has the advantages of large area, high efficiency, flexibility, low cost and environmental protection.

China is the world's largest PCB production base, the output value of PCB boards in 2019 was about 33.744 billion US dollars, and it is expected that the output value of PCB boards in China will reach 40.556 billion US dollars by 2023, accounting for 54.25% of the total output value of PCB boards in the world. PCB board printing adopts digital printing technology, the functional conductive polymer, nano metal ink or nano inorganic ink printed on the substrate, the formation of conductive lines, graphics or the formation of the entire printed circuit board. It can be seen that the huge market in the field of electronic circuits will drive the further development of digital printing.