Foreign trade transformation "smart manufacturing" upgrade! Chaozhou Chao'an District Packaging and

At the foot of Sangpu Mountain, there are many factories in Dongshan Lake Modern Industrial Park, and the fully automated production lines of packaging and printing enterprises operate efficiently. After printing, compounding, slitting, bag making and other processes, high-quality packaging products are rapidly formed one by one and sold all over the world.

Packaging and printing industry is a characteristic export industry and a pillar industry of foreign trade in Chao'an District, Chaozhou City. After years of precipitation and development, Chao'an District has gradually formed a group of packaging and printing enterprises focusing on food packaging, ceramic packaging, drug packaging, packaging machinery, etc. It is a major domestic packaging and printing production place, and its products are exported to more than 60 countries and regions in Europe, America, Asia, Africa, etc.

With the accelerated pace of industrial digital transformation, the development of foreign trade has burst into a strong momentum. Recently, the Provincial Department of Commerce recognized that a new batch of 10 provincial foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases will be launched in 2022, including the packaging and printing industry base in Chao'an District, Chaozhou City.

Hard power

"Intelligent manufacturing" enables transformation and improves the industrial chain

Entering Guangdong Danqing Printing Co., Ltd., advanced high-speed electronic shaft intaglio printing production line, solvent-free compound machine and other production equipment kept running, and workers skillfully operated various mechanical equipment. "The production progress of all orders is visualized here at a glance." Zhang Yusheng, director of quality control of the enterprise, opened the computer to display the online detection system of intelligent prints, and the product of "special-shaped self-supporting nozzle bag" showed that it had entered the bag making process.   At present, the enterprise has developed into a national recognized high-tech enterprise engaged in the production, marketing and research of flexible packaging. Its products are exported to the United States, Ethiopia, Mexico and other countries and regions. In 2021, its exports will exceed 10 million dollars.

Printing, compounding, slitting, bag making... In Guangdong Meishida Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials Co., Ltd., the new printing equipment operates at full capacity, each process is in order, and each finished pharmaceutical packaging material is rapidly formed on the assembly line.   "Chao'an District is one of the largest packaging production bases in China, which has driven the rise of drug packaging materials enterprises. We have constantly strengthened research and development and technical transformation, and comprehensively improved the market competitiveness of the drug packaging materials industry." Zhang Changxiong, deputy general manager of the company, said that the enterprise is equipped with 100000 level purification workshops and 10000 level laboratories, and has many sets of modern advanced production equipment and complete inspection instruments required for the production of drug packaging materials, At present, it has become a strategic partner with more than 40 large and medium-sized well-known pharmaceutical enterprises.

The digital transformation of Chao'an packaging and printing industry was accelerated.

Smart management, precision process and the innovation and change of the enterprise's production workshop are the epitome of the accelerated transformation and upgrading of Chao'an packaging and printing industry in recent years. The production and construction of advanced production lines continuously fill the gap of raw material supply in Chao'an District and even Guangdong Province, and promote the development and improvement of the printing industry chain. Among them, two advanced BOPET film production lines have been built in Dongshanhu New Plant of Guangdong Baojiali New Materials Co., Ltd., which is expected to produce 70000 tons of BOPET film annually, with an output value of about 800 million yuan; Chaozhou Jianghong Plastic Materials Co., Ltd. is making every effort to promote the new project of biaxial stretching BOPP film production plant. It is estimated that the annual output of BOPP film will reach 60000 tons after being put into production, creating a fine example of national printing and packaging production projects

As of 2021, there are 1104 packaging and printing enterprises in Chao'an.   Driven by characteristic regions and leading enterprises, packaging and printing products in Chao'an District sell well at home and abroad, becoming the designated printing point for packaging materials of well-known enterprises at home and abroad. Anbu Town has even opened the signboard of "the first town of packaging and printing in China".

Now, as the characteristic export industry and the pillar industry of foreign trade in Chao'an District, the packaging and printing industry chain in Chao'an District is perfect, and has formed a "one-stop" industrial chain from the production of film materials, inks and various additives to computer design, engraving, concave convex color printing, to injection molding packaging, cartons, packaging and printing machinery, and has driven the cluster and large-scale development of machinery, film, ink, glue and other supporting industries.

Soft support

Schools and enterprises promote production, education and research to solve technical bottlenecks

Development is the first priority and talent is the first resource. In order to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and promote the high-quality development of packaging and printing industry, Chao'an District has actively built a public service platform, built a Chao'an talent station, and carried out industrial technology exchange, project cooperation, industry university research integration and other activities;   Through the establishment of university production, teaching and research liaison stations, professors, doctors and other experts and scholars are introduced to directly serve enterprises and help enterprises solve the technical bottleneck of industrial development.

A series of plaques were hung at the gate of Chao'an Talent Posthouse, including the Industry University Research Liaison Station of Guangdong New Generation Automated Food Packaging Machinery (Chaozhou) Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, and the Industry University Research Liaison Station of Zhongkai Academy of Agricultural Engineering Light Industry Food College (Chaozhou).

Since this year, relying on the Chao'an Talent Posthouse, a series of industry, university and research activities focusing on packaging and printing have been carried out continuously - more than 10 "experts coming to the grassroots industry technology salon" activities have been held in the way of "inviting in", inviting experts from colleges and universities such as Huagong, Huanong, Zhongkai Agricultural Engineering College to enter the enterprise and directly carrying out industry, university and research exchanges, technical training, etc. In the way of "going global", the Guangzhou University Trip for Technical Talents in Chao'an Packaging Industry was held in June this year. The school enterprise industrial technology docking was carried out in three universities, namely Guangzhou Huagong, Huanong and Zhongkai Agricultural Engineering College, and the "First Chao'an Packaging Industry Technology Summit Forum" was held; In July of this year, the Chao'an Packaging Machinery Industry Alliance Shunde Production, Learning and Research Activity was held to enter Shunde "Robot Factory" and connect high-quality universities and intelligent advanced enterprises

With the help of Chao'an Talent Posthouse, Zhongkai Agricultural Engineering College and Guangdong Baojiali Company signed an agreement of intent to jointly build "Zhongkai (Chaozhou) Central Kitchen Packaging Research Institute", and Sun Yat sen University signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation with Baojiali, Maxtar, New Jiyuan and other packaging enterprises. At the same time, the university led many Chao'an packaging enterprises to carry out scientific research on new packaging materials in the form of production, teaching and research, including the cooperative implementation of new functional materials, environmental protection and degradable soft packaging projects. At present, Chao'an District has more than 10 packaging and printing enterprises, universities and research institutes to carry out industry university research cooperation.

Seek development

Seize policy opportunities, demonstrate and drive development

In January this year, the packaging and printing industry association of Chao'an District, Chaozhou City was officially established. The establishment of the Association fills the gap that there has been no packaging and printing industry association in Chao'an for many years, and will be conducive to further promoting the contact between the government and enterprises, and promoting the exchange and cooperation and group development of the printing and packaging industry in Chao'an District.

"Of the 255 member enterprises of Chao'an District Foreign Trade Association, nearly half of them are in the packaging and printing industry, and most of their products are exported to the world's top 500 enterprises." Wang Yidan, president of Chaozhou Chao'an District Packaging and Printing Association, said that the Association will play a role as a bridge between the government, enterprises and users, and play a role as a link between production, sales, services and many other links, Actively seize the "air outlet" of the domestic big cycle and domestic and international double cycle policies, lead the industry enterprises to actively go abroad, expand the popularity and industry influence of enterprises through exhibitions, network platforms, marketing channels, etc., and polish the Chao'an packaging and printing signboard.

Cultivate new momentum, stimulate new vitality, and shape new advantages... At present, Chao'an District Bureau of Industry and Technology is stepping up to formulate the development plan of the packaging and printing industry base, focusing on leading the coordinated development of the industry, building industrial clusters, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, and improving the modernization level of the industrial chain, and striving to promote the transformation of the industrial development model to the quality benefit model, and the transformation of the development momentum to innovation driven, Strive to develop a high-quality packaging and printing industry with distinctive features.

The relevant person in charge of Chao'an District Bureau of Industry and Technology said that he would seize the policy opportunity of promoting the cultivation of foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases at provincial and municipal levels, implement the high-quality development action plan of provincial and municipal foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases, further strengthen planning and take multiple measures, cultivate and develop the packaging and printing industry into a distinctive, large-scale and competitive pillar industry in the cost zone, and accelerate the pace of digital, intelligent, green and high-end upgrading, Better and faster promote the construction of high-quality development of Chao'an District's foreign trade transformation and upgrading base.

[Source] Nanfang Daily

[Text/Picture] Ji Jinna

[Author] Ji Jinna

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