In the current packaging and printing industry, facing the competitive situation of second-level factories continuously extending their business sectors downwards, how should third-level factories develop to maintain long-term survival? Corrface believes that as long as third-level factories create their own characteristics, they are not afraid of competition. In this video, Corrface visited Zenghui Packaging (located near Hangzhou, China), a third-level factory that specializes in the production of electric vehicle outer packaging using digital printers with a distinctive order structure. Let's see how they have established a foothold in the segmented market through digital printing.

The production workshop of Zenghui Packaging covers an area of about 3,000 square meters and mainly produces outer boxes for electric vehicles. Therefore, the products are mainly made of large-sized paperboard with five or seven layers. This carton shown by Corrface is the outer box for Off-road motorcycle exported by Zenghui Packaging to overseas countries, which is not only large-size, but also increases the added value of the product through special treatments such as four-side corner protectors and handles, etc. Zenghui Packaging has a large order volume and high requirements for the stability and printing speed of digital printers. JSTAR's single pass technology enjoys a good reputation in the industry and holds a significant position in dye ink. Under the consideration of many parties, Zenghui Packaging chose to use JSTAR's GSB 2500 high-speed digital printers to add impetus to its production.

In order to meet the demand of large size and certain weight of carton production, JSTAR designed a special auxiliary feeding platform for Zenghui Packaging, configured with multiple rows of rollers to reduce the resistance of paper feeding, which further improves the production efficiency and can easily complete the production of 20,000 square meters of orders per day. The color performance of digital printing is an important indicator for measuring equipment performance. The JSTAR GSB 2500 high-speed digital printer adopts a micro-voltage type spray nozzle imported from Japan and uses environmentally friendly water-based ink, which can achieve high printing accuracy at low cost. Corrface randomly selected a finished product from the production workshop of Zenghui Packaging for observation, which is a yellow board box with black and red printing surfaces, including large areas of color blocks and small characters. From the perspective of printing effect, the color concentration and saturation of the red part perform well, and the overall printing quality is close to the level of traditional watermark machines. The printing effect of another order is also impressive to Corrface: using Single Pass technology to print a more than 2 meters length full black plate, observing its saturation from both horizontal and vertical directions, it was found that the full black plate completely covered the yellow paperboard base. Multiple cartons were selected and displayed one by one, showing that the ink balance was extremely high and the printing effect was very stable. Despite such a high difficulty order, digital printer can still achieve almost perfect results, fully meeting the production needs of third-level factories.

In the view of Corrface, this equipment from JSTAR has multiple advantages such as fast speed and stable printing effect, which is very suitable for the daily production of third-level factories, the only shortcoming is that it is not waterproof, but this problem can be solved by subsequent varnish. It is worth mentioning that the back-end equipment of Zenghui Packaging - round molding machine and slotting machine - also come from JSTAR. This fully reflects that JSTAR has a solid reputation and excellent technical strength in the industry, which enables it to maintain a long-term and stable cooperative relationship with new and old customers.

Corrface believes that the development of third-level factories should adopt the strategy of deepening innovative processes and focusing on niche markets, and the development route of Zenghui Packaging is a good model of this concept. In the face of industry competition, what development route have you chosen? Pay attention to Corrface to get more exciting content.