Currently, China’s digital printing industry is entering a structural transformation period characterized by stricter environmental regulations, quality upgrading, and saturated traditional tracks, presenting a pattern of “stock competition and incremental breakthrough”. As SUPERINKS, an integrated enterprise specializing in ink R&D, production, sales and service, we closely follow industry trends, support the high-quality development of the industry with full-chain services, and layout opportunities for the next 5 years.
I. Industry Status: Saturated Traditional Tracks & Intensified Stock Competition
The core contradiction of the industry has shifted from “scale expansion” to “structural optimization”, with fierce stock competition in traditional tracks. Solvent-based equipment has basically stagnated due to environmental controls; although eco solvent equipment has grown slightly, its growth space is limited by the downturn of the advertising industry, only maintaining stock replacement. At present, the proportion of digital printing in the printing market is lower than the global average, and its penetration rate is continuously rising, becoming the core driving force for transformation. The digital textile field is also saturated. Sublimation printing has overcapacity and serious homogenization in core markets at home and abroad, with premium space only in high-end functional printing. The industry is in urgent need of new growth breakthroughs.
II. Core Trends: Expanded Applications & Niche Track Breakthrough
Stock bottlenecks have forced enterprises to seek increments. Three major forces—environmental protection, quality and demand—are reshaping the industry pattern and will influence the development trend in the next 5 years. Water-based, UV and low-VOC inks have become the standard, accelerating the replacement of mid-to-high-end products, and the continuous expansion of application scenarios has become the core trend. The expansion into the home decoration field is an important embodiment of the broadened application scenarios and a core development direction in the next 5 years. The three niche tracks of corrugated digital printing, digital labeling and digital book printing have performed well currently, meeting market demand and becoming the core growth drivers for the industry in the next 5 years.
III. Enterprise Layout: Full-Chain Empowerment to Seize Development Opportunities
As SUPERINKS, an integrated enterprise specializing in ink R&D, production, sales and service, we accurately align with industry trends and take the initiative to make layout breakthroughs: focusing on the R&D of environmentally friendly and high-quality inks, optimizing production processes; launching special inks for different tracks such as home decoration, corrugated, labeling and book printing, and optimizing their performance; providing full-chain services and customized solutions to help customers adapt to market demand. At the same time, we adjust product layout and expand non-textile printing fields to lay the foundation for growth in the next 5 years.
IV. Future Outlook: In-depth Transformation & Incremental Breakthrough
Looking ahead to the next 5 years, the industry will continue its structural transformation, with the development logic shifting to “competing in environmental protection, quality, solutions and services”. Traditional tracks will focus on stabilizing stock, while niche tracks such as corrugated, labeling and book printing will maintain a compound growth rate of 15%-20%, with continuously expanded application scenarios. SUPERINKS will adhere to the positioning of the full ink industry chain, deepen R&D, optimize products and services, help the industry achieve the leap from “stock competition” to “incremental breakthrough”, and promote the global influence of domestic inks.
