Plastic hose printing market investment analysis

Plastic hose is a kind of advanced packaging container, product non-toxic tasteless, use of health, convenient and colorful bright, beautiful surface, the price is low. Widely used in cosmetics, pharmaceutical, food, detergents and other daily necessities packaging, can highlight the value of the product. Hose have single, double, and transparent tube, round tube, flat pipe. The world advanced plastic hose production line is set full automatic color printing, polishing, drying, laguan, fast note head, automatic heating sealing inside the color code, hot stamping and with cover in an assembly line. Hose manufacturing process is usually become sheet after sheet composite process, then through printing process to become a printed sheet, finally through the hose manufacturing process become hose. Hose manufacturing is similar to the magnetic card, is the 'print', 'system'. Hose printing enterprise is hose manufacturing enterprises at the same time, the printing is one of the process. Hose printing is typically four-color printing, some design only one or two colors, one of the most 16 colors. The hose printing method basically has 3 kinds: offset printing, embossed, and screen printing. Which offset the biggest percentage, offset some of the infrared drying, some of them are uv drying. Because the printing ink layer thick, covering power, so it is mainly used for color printing with the hose. Market moves the hose printing service groups are mainly cosmetics, medicines, food, petrochemical and other industries. The cosmetic is one of the biggest customer base, about accounts for 60% ~ 70% of the proportion of the hose all the business, in addition, the drug has the proportion of 15% ~ 20%, other business to share the rest of the proportion. Interview process, the hose printing all reflect now many new private hose manufacturing enterprise, competition also is chaotic. With the increasingly fierce competition, the hose printing margins before also is compressed, prices fell by 3% to 5% a year, now basic maintain profit margins at around 15%. Although the price of the single hose has been a downward trend, but from the point of the upstream demand, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, oil chemical industry are high growth, so the market capacity will continue to increase. According to the latest statistics, by the end of 2003 the cosmetics industry, about 75 billion yuan of sales value realization profit tax of 33 billion yuan, the taxes of about 27 billion yuan. Cosmetics industry development speed is higher than the growth of the national economy, maintain the momentum of rapid growth for many years. According to a census of 300 large and medium-sized cosmetics enterprises from January 2003 to September 162 complete sales. 700 million yuan, accounting for the total sales of 21. 6%. In the cosmetics industry has been in a leading manufacturer, is still to keep the market in 2003, 1 ~ 9 months to complete sales in 500 million yuan of above companies include: Avon 26. 600 million yuan, amway has 25. 500 million yuan, 14 lung power. 900 million yuan, sibao 13. 5. 6 billion yuan, procter & gamble 10. 0. 2 billion yuan, etc. 11. The pharmaceutical industry is also steadily rising industry, especially the former medical aluminum tubes, has now been banned to use. Countries are leading the industry, as it were, the hose packaging material to plastic changes, this undoubtedly gave plastic hose a growth opportunity. Investment threshold hose printing equipment span is very big, from more than one hundred ten thousand yuan of domestic equipment, equipment to 2 million ~ 5 million yuan of Taiwan, European equipment to tens of millions of yuan, can become the selected object. However, if the introduction is not a complete production line, may be reinvested sealing machine and other auxiliary equipment. Because the hose is used for more direct contact with human body products, so the hose material and work environment have higher requirements. Surveyed companies have said basic are imported materials, to ensure product safety, and can guarantee the quality of the product. Customers have requirement not only, also have provisions of the state, according to the drug administration law and the pharmaceutical administration law implementation regulations, pharmaceutical production enterprise use of packaging materials, must be registered with the approval of the pharmaceutical supervisory and administrative department under the State Council. Since 2002, companies who had received the pharmaceutical packaging materials and containers registration certificate, but also has a lot of unqualified enterprises broken HuoYuan and closed, and these unqualified enterprises, is more simple and crude equipment, the small enterprises. For cosmetics packaging, countries, although not like drug packaging strict rules, but to monitor with close links to the human health products, has become the trend of The Times, the related rules, but it was only a matter of time. The expert reminds: if wants to invest the hose printing, should occupy the high-end market. Although in recent years the price war also affected to some extent the large hose enterprise, but due to the stability of supply, the larger hose enterprise only several, each factory have become one of the famous cosmetics brand will choose the answer, so their source of business is very stable. Printing is the most difficult part of the hose production, the so-called difficult, is also relative to drawn tube and sealing, from the point of technical threshold, hose printing is not rocket. Hire offset printing high level of operating personnel, basic can solve the problem. It is reported that a 30 million yuan of hose production line, need 5 ~ 6 years to recover the cost. Investment high side hose production, also need adequate financial support. Many products have a season of the cosmetics, such as sunscreen, hand cream, etc. , so the hose enterprise also has the low season season, can arrange production, and must have the ability to hose enterprises. Like many printing market, plastic hose printing is faced with chaotic competition situation. A mature hose enterprise, however, will still be able to keep more than 20% of the annual growth rate. So chaos in preparation, the body health of companies, not necessarily is not equal to more opportunities.