Converting technology and functional film industry chain

Converting technology and functional film industry chain

Original 2016-10-26 Functional film processing online Functional film processing

"2011-2016 China Plastic Film Manufacturing Market Prospect Research and Forecast Report" data show that the film industry is growing at an average annual rate of 15%, and it is expected that by 2017, China's film output will reach 19.5786 million tons, and the market size will reach 542.331 billion yuan. At the same time, the structural contradiction between supply and demand of plastic film in China is serious, the supply of traditional film is in excess of demand, and the supply of high value-added film is in short supply.

Functional films

Functional films account for about 5% of domestic production, but the market value accounts for nearly 15%, and the gross profit margin is 5-7 times that of ordinary films. China's film industry is gradually transforming, making every effort to develop functional films, and the development of medium and high-end films is the future development direction of China's film industry.

unctional film industry market size and profit margin breakdown

Theoretically, almost all synthetic resins can be made into thin films by calendering or extrusion.

Functional materials are manufactured through surface treatment (evaporation, PVD, CVD), coating, printing, plate making, calendering, galvanizing, compounding, cutting, etc., and are endowed with characteristics such as strength, heat resistance, mechanical, electronic, optical, and gas isolation, and become functional films with high added value.

Converting technology

The literal translation is "processing, transformation". It refers to the technology of coating materials such as paper, plastic films, metal foils, non-woven fabrics, etc., with adhesives, functional coatings, and surface treatment agents, bonding/compounding these non-similar materials, and then using cutting process to make high value-added secondary products.

Functional films are inseparable from Converting technology.

Generally speaking, converting-related technologies include: coating (bonding, peeling....), printing, laminating, drying, hardening, R2R, film secondary winding, slitting, water-based surface treatment, dry surface treatment (evaporation, PVD/CVD)...

Manufacturers involved include: plastics/chemical plants, machining and peripheral manufacturers, substrates (PP, BOPP, CPP, PET, PA, PVC, PE, EVA, TAC, EVOH and other films, metal foils, nonwovens, paper), functional agent materials factories (inks, surface treatment agents, glues, adhesives)

The upstream and downstream materials, processes, and applications of the Converting industry chain are shown in the figure below

Converting professional exhibitions

ICE

International Converting Exhibition, a professional exhibition tailored for the Converting industry.

ICE Europe

Europe's oldest professional exhibition for converting, after 17 years.

ICE China

ICE Europe is the only sub-exhibition in the Chinese market, debuting in China in 2008 and is held every two years.

ICE CHINA 2016

November 16-18, 2016

Shanghai Mart

range

Coating

compound

printing

Slitting

Rewind

Functional films

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