Due to the characteristics of low cost, light weight, easy processing, recyclability and degradation of paper packaging, in recent years, paper packaging has been used in four packaging materials (paper packaging, -0.38%) packaging and metal packaging), the total output value of paper packaging in 2012 accounted for 39%, 6 percentage points higher than the second-ranked plastic packaging.

As the most important paper packaging product, corrugated boxes have less waste and are easy to decompose and recycle by themselves compared with metal, plastic, glass and wood packaging products, and all use non-toxic and easily decomposable environmentally friendly water-based inks during printing. , is recognized as "green packaging products". In the future, environmental protection and economy will also make the demand for corrugated boxes stronger. As green packaging and economical packaging, corrugated boxes have a good substitution effect on other packaging products, and the scope of use is becoming wider and wider, becoming the development direction of the packaging industry.

With the steady increase in demand for corrugated boxes and the replacement of printing equipment, the market size of complete sets of corrugated box printing equipment is also expanding steadily and rapidly. According to the statistics of the Paper Products Committee of China Packaging Federation, the market size of domestic corrugated box printing machinery It will rise from 4.2 billion yuan in 2011 to 7.4 billion yuan in 2016.

In the early stage of the development of my country's corrugated box industry, medium and high-end corrugated box printing machinery all relied on imports. Many corrugated box manufacturers purchased relatively cheap but technologically backward equipment because they were unable to purchase expensive imported equipment, resulting in poor printing quality and low efficiency. The equipment has affected the market competitiveness of these carton manufacturers. With the increase in labor costs and the scale of carton production enterprises, the demand for high-efficiency, high-precision, high-quality, and multi-functional mid-to-high-end printing equipment will accelerate growth. Low-efficiency, low-quality, high-labor-intensive low-end printing Machines will be phased out at an accelerated pace, corrugated box printing machinery will be replaced at an accelerated pace, and the proportion of mid-to-high-end complete sets of printing equipment is expected to increase. The Paper Products Committee of China Packaging Federation expects: "By 2016, the market share of high-end equipment will reach 40%."

At present, domestic medium and high-end equipment is accelerating the substitution of imports. Contrary to the fact that the market scale of domestic high-end corrugated box multi-color printing equipment has increased year by year, in recent years, the growth rate of my country's corrugated box printing machinery imports has slowed down year by year, and negative growth and reverse substitution have occurred. Mid-to-high-end equipment is still almost entirely dependent on imports, which shows that the "import substitution" of mid-to-high-end equipment is very fast.