The screen printing industry will face a reshuffle in the era of low-carbon environmental protection

Globalization of low-carbon economy

For a long time, the environmental quality standards of Europe and the United States have been higher than that of China. In terms of low-carbon economy, Europe and the United States have also been ahead of China. The EU is implementing environmental protection policies for printing products, restricting the content of heavy metals such as lead in all inks, glues and other products, and also restricting some low-end screen printing products in China to enter the EU market. In order to be unimpeded in the European market, many textile printing and dyeing enterprises in China that have done textile printing processing or trade have already overcome this standard and obtained a pass for the EU market.

As early as October 26, 2009, the EU Council of Ministers passed new regulations to revise the environmental labeling plan covering textiles, footwear and electrical appliances at that time, and expanded the scope of application. The goal is to cover up to 40 to 50 product categories, and ensure that more products that have been awarded the EU environmental protection label are sold in stores. This includes a part of textile printing garments or silk printing products, as well as some products with silk printing products as accessories.

Other amendments to the EU standards include linking the environmental labeling plan to other sustainable production and consumption actions, such as integrating environmental labeling guidelines into environmental design elements, and / or using the guidelines as guidelines for future standards, Forcing companies to meet environmental standards.

Facing the global general trend of low-carbon environmental protection, the EU will continue to increase the requirements for low-carbon environmental protection and other related indicators of some imported products. It is only a matter of time before more stringent environmental protection standards are introduced.

Most of China's textile printing and apparel enterprises are mainly engaged in export trade, while the EU and the United States are the main markets. As the most economically developed region in the world, the environmental protection standards in the European and American markets have been continuously improved. In contrast, China's silk screen companies do not pay much attention to this aspect. Often it is after the European and American countries introduce a new standard and affects themselves, then go to understand this standard and try every means to meet the requirements of the standard. The result is often due to their own The technological innovation ability is poor, and it lags behind the competitors, and it is in a fairly passive position in the market. To be one step ahead to understand the relevant environmental protection access standards in the European and American markets, we need our companies to seize as many opportunities as possible to contact foreign investors, especially professionals, and actively learn European and American environmental standards to prepare early. More participation in export-oriented exhibitions is a very necessary choice. These will be the best opportunities for China's silk screen companies to understand and learn about low-carbon environmental protection policies and access standards in Europe and America.

Low carbon standards bring industry reshuffle

Industry experts said that the low-carbon concept has been around for a few years, but it has really gained worldwide attention and development since the Copenhagen Conference in late 2009. In China, low-carbon environmental protection has gradually received unprecedented attention and development. The low-carbon industry is a strategic industry for China's future development. The country will continue to promote industrial upgrading and technological progress by setting certain industry entry thresholds, raising national standards, industry standards, and enterprise standards. This indicates that China's environmental protection policy will develop from "encouraging" low-carbon to "necessary" low-carbon. Experts believe that the implementation of low-carbon standards will have a shuffling effect on the screen printing industry. Because China's screen printing industry has always been an industry with a relatively low threshold, most screen printing companies rely on cheap labor for export processing, and the enforcement of low-carbon standards will quickly eliminate backward production capacity. There are bound to be some small screen printing companies with weak scientific research capabilities that are blocked outside the industry, and suffer the tragic fate of being “eliminated” as a “backward production capacity”. Under the restriction of low-carbon access conditions, those screen printing companies that have the strength to meet the requirements of national low-carbon standards will receive policy support, integrate various resources, and get better development in the future.

In this regard, the screen printing industry should actively participate in the historical process of low-carbon environmental protection. He pointed out that if silk screen enterprises want to successfully overcome this difficulty, they must immediately launch product technology innovation, focus on cultivating and absorbing the intellectual resources and technical resources for the development of low-carbon economy, and ensure that they can own process technology and products that meet low-carbon standards . All new products and technologies are derived from talents, so our silk-screen printing companies must first attract innovative talents and establish a product research team with innovative capabilities. Only in this way can low-carbon products be developed, produced and sold on their own, and they will be invincible in the future market.