Plastic hose printing

Plastic hose is an international advanced packaging container, non-toxic and tasteless products, easy to use, bright and colorful surface, beautiful appearance, and low price. Widely used in cosmetics, medicine, food, detergents and other daily necessities packaging, can highlight the value of the product. The hoses are single-layered, double-layered and divided into transparent tubes, round tubes and flat tubes. At present, the advanced plastic hose production line in the world is an assembly line with automatic color printing, glazing, drying, rapid pipe pulling, tip injection, automatic heat sealing of the color mark, bronzing and capping.
The manufacturing process of the hose is usually a sheet-composite process to form a sheet, a printing process to become a printed sheet, and finally a hose manufacturing process to become a hose.

The manufacture of a hose is similar to a magnetic card and is one of "printing" and "making". Hose printing companies are also hose manufacturers. Printing is one of these processes. Hose printing is generally four-color printing, and some designs are only one or two colors, up to 16 colors. There are three main printing methods for hoses: offset printing, letterpress printing, and screen printing. Offsets account for the largest proportion, some of which are infrared drying and some are uv drying. Due to the thick ink layer and strong covering power, it is mainly used for printing hoses with a background color.

Market trend

The main service groups for hose printing are cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food, petrochemical and other industries. Among them, cosmetics is the largest customer base, accounting for about 60% to 70% of all hose business. In addition, medicines have a ratio of 15% to 20%, and other businesses share the remaining ratio.

During the interview, the hose printing factories all reflected that many privately-owned hose manufacturers were newly built and the competition was confusing. As the competition became more and more fierce, the high profit before the printing of hoses was also compressed a lot. The annual price dropped by 3% to 5%, and now the profit rate is basically maintained at about 15%.

Although the price of a single hose has been on a downward trend, from the perspective of upstream demand, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and petrochemicals are high-growth industries, so market capacity will continue to increase.

According to the latest statistics, by the end of 2003, the national cosmetics industry had achieved sales of about 75 billion yuan, profits and taxes of 33 billion yuan, of which taxes were about 27 billion yuan. The speed of development of the cosmetics industry is higher than that of the national economy, and it has maintained the momentum of rapid growth for many years. According to the statistics of 300 large and medium-sized cosmetics companies, sales from January to September 2003 totaled 16.27 billion yuan, accounting for approximately 21.6% of the country's total sales. Leading manufacturers in the cosmetics industry have remained in the top position in 2003. Companies with sales of more than RMB 500 million between January and September included Avon 2.66 billion yuan, Amway 2.55 billion yuan, Longliqi 1.49 billion yuan, and silk. Bao has 1.356 billion yuan and P & G has 1.102 billion yuan.

The pharmaceutical industry is also a steadily rising industry. In particular, pre-medical aluminum tubes have now been banned from use. It can be said that the country is leading the change of hose packaging materials in the pharmaceutical industry to plastics, which undoubtedly gives plastic hoses a chance to grow.

Investment threshold

Hose printing equipment has a large investment span, from domestic equipment of more than one million yuan, Taiwan equipment of 2 million to 5 million yuan, to European equipment of several tens of millions of yuan, all of which can be selected objects. However, if the introduction is not a complete production line, it may be necessary to invest in additional equipment such as sealing machines.

Because hoses are used in products that are in direct contact with the human body, hoses and work environments have relatively high requirements. The interviewed companies all stated that the materials were basically imported, so as to ensure product safety and ensure product quality. Not only do the customers have requirements, the country also has regulations that, according to the "Drug Administration Law" and the "Regulations for the Implementation of the Drug Administration Law," packaging materials used by drug manufacturers must be approved for registration by the drug regulatory agency of the State Council. Since 2002, some companies have received "Drug Packaging Materials and Container Registration Certificates". However, many unqualified companies have cut off their livelihoods and closed down. However, these unqualified enterprises are mostly poorly equipped and of small scale. enterprise. For cosmetics packaging, although the country has not yet introduced strict regulations like drug packaging for the time being, it has become a general trend to supervise products closely related to human health. The introduction of relevant regulations is only a matter of time.

Experts advise: If you are interested in investing in hose printing, you should occupy the high-end market.

Although the price war in recent years has also affected large-scale hose companies to a certain extent, due to this supply of stable, large-scale hose companies only a few, each factory has become a must-have answer for well-known cosmetics brands. First, their business sources are very stable.

Printing is the hardest link in the production of hoses. The so-called "difficulty" is also related to the process of drawing tubes and sealing. From the technical point of view, the printing of hoses is not so advanced. Hiring someone with a high level of offset can basically solve the problem.

It is understood that a 30 million yuan hose production line will take 5 to 6 years to recover costs. It seems that investment in high-end hose production also requires sufficient financial support.

Many products in cosmetics have seasons, such as sunscreens, hand creams, etc. Therefore, hose companies also have off-season peak seasons, and can reasonably arrange production, which is also a must for hose companies.

Like many printing markets, plastic hose printing is also facing a chaotic competition. However, a mature hose company can still maintain an annual growth rate of more than 20%. Therefore, chaos does not necessarily mean more opportunities for companies that are prepared and healthy.