China ink production ranks fourth in the world, but there is no one manufacturer of ink production to reach 10% of the total production of ink, with the world's top 20 ink manufacturing enterprises, the gap is still great. Ink consumption amounted to 30 million tons, but the ink per capita consumption remains less than the world's top three average 1 / 24, print per capita consumption of inferior to the developed countries 1 / 20, the per capita consumption of paper and paperboard is not the United States thirteenth. Overall, our ink technology, process and equipment level is still relatively weak, in the ink system research and development investment and technical strength, especially in the aspect of the development of today's market demands new and special printing ink, there are still a certain gap. Integrated international and domestic market conditions, we mainly have the following gap. 

1, less investment in science and technology, new product development ability is poor 

Consistent with the industry as a whole, we are scarce and older talent after decades of practice has accumulated a lot of experience, but older, energy and physical decline, in young people, although there are a lot of talented people, but the quantity is far from enough. Ink industry personnel issues have significantly affected the development of the industry, and then, the current full-time universities and research institutes are not set ink professional, basic work of very few people study. According to statistics, doctoral, master's degree or above in the industry, the researchers do not more than 10 people. And most of the enterprises, only heavy product production, neglect of product development, only at present, ignore the long-term, scientific research equipment investment funds, lack of funds and personnel and technical reserves. 

During a visit to the United States Sun Chemical Pigment factory laboratory, we learned that the laboratory engaged in printing ink pigment product development and application of test researchers have a doctoral degree of more than 50, instrument settings, capital investment reached 300 million US dollars, at present in our country the entire ink industry experiment equipment investment sum can reach half of the number of it? Big gap can be imagined. 

2, small scale, poor competitiveness 

From the data, compared with foreign large ink companies, we have a small scale. Compared to the Japanese printing ink rich flint ink and Toyo ink, the world ranking the forefront of ink company, after their mergers and acquisitions, the formation contains pigment, resin and other raw materials, production plants, production series, large scale and strong competitiveness. In this kind of competition, we have low production efficiency, product consistency and poor quality stability. The world's first large Japanese ink / Sun Chemical Co., Ltd. sales of $1. In the same market competition, we can see that there is a big gap between the strength of the. 

3, the basic level of industry is low, the quality of raw materials is poor 

As the sic industry is not advanced, the industry is small, the production of raw materials, the production of raw materials, resulting in low quality level of raw materials, poor stability, affecting the quality of the ink. Domestic production of printing ink raw materials in terms of quality, quantity and variety can not be synchronized with the development of ink production, and some raw materials still rely on imports. But the relative price of domestic raw materials is low. For now, about 80% of domestic ink products are still using domestic raw materials. 

4, the quality level of the gap 

Domestic printing ink quality level, in the international market, not only won the general recognition of developing countries, but also won the recognition of the developed countries. In recent years, China's exports to Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom and other European and American developed countries of the printing ink, with an average annual export volume of about 1/6 of the total amount of the same period of Chinese ink exports. But in spite of this, although domestic ink quality level and grade of products have greatly improved, varieties also increased, but compared with the international advanced level, there are still a certain gap. This, to some advanced countries and imports from these countries in the similar products in China's exports over the same period, the average import unit price general than the average export unit price higher than 1 / 3. In particular, there is a certain gap between the level of technology and packaging. 

Foreign advanced equipment and mature production technology, make the product performance and consistency, stability is very strong. Ink packaging is basically a vacuum two cans, our packaging carton, trademark with Europe and America, Japan than there is a certain gap. A, and professional printing factory owners forum, he mentioned by contrast experiment, Tianjin company ink ink (H-2008 inks) intrinsic quality and imported butterfly, BASF inks not any difference, but packaging level there is no way to compared with the imported. He did point out the gap between us. 

5, the development of environmentally friendly ink 

Environmentally friendly ink in China is still in the stage of trial and promotion, and foreign, such as the United States, Japan and other large ink enterprise has experienced 20 years or even 30 years of technical reserves, now the introduction of environment-friendly soybean oil ink, water-based ink meet the increasingly stringent environmental requirements. And we do not have the technical strength and the corresponding technical reserves. At the same time, there is still no perfect standard compulsory execution, and government agencies need to be established. Vigorously develop the use of environmentally friendly ink, as soon as possible with the international market need to work hard. 

6, new product development needs to be improved