Development history of self-adhesive label in China

1930s was the first application of adhesive materials in the United States, because of the special composite material demand continues to expand, the sticker printing has gradually evolved into an independent printing field, more and more enterprises at home and abroad engaged in professional self-adhesive label printing. In our country, the printing industry in the production scale, technical level, market space and other aspects of the unprecedented development, driven the development of self-adhesive printing, and reached an unprecedented level.

It is understood that China's annual demand for self-adhesive labels is growing faster than the rate of 20%. At present, China's self-adhesive label market size of about 4.5 ~ 500 million square meters, per capita occupancy of only 0.3 square meters / person / year, while some developed countries such as Australia's per capita occupancy of up to 12 square meters / person / year. Therefore, China's self-adhesive label market has great potential!

Now, self-adhesive label in the world has broad prospects for development. United States cosmetics packaging materials, for example, self-adhesive film label accounted for 35%, direct screen printing accounted for 30%, self-adhesive paper label accounted for 11%, mold film label accounted for 11%. Visible, self-adhesive label in its packaging materials market accounted for 46%.

Among them, Hongkong and Guangzhou accounted for 67% of the entire Tianjin self-adhesive label market. Shanghai market in recent years the rapid development rate is expected four or five years later, Shanghai will become China's largest self-adhesive label market. But the current situation, the focus is still on the Guangdong market.

The wide application of self-adhesive labels and the continuous development of label varieties naturally promote the development of label printing technology. Label printing covers flat, convex, concave, net and all printing methods. From the development trend of the global label in recent years can be seen, flexo printing, narrow web printing, digital printing has become the highlight of the new label printing in Europe and the United States, but also the development trend of label printing.

Adhesive labels are mainly used in daily chemicals, cosmetics, electronic home appliances, pharmaceuticals, daily necessities, food and beverage, supermarket retail and logistics products and industries. Among them, the daily chemical, food, medical demand for label products is particularly prominent.