What are the problems faced by packaging and printing enterprises?

Double-sided attack, profit space compression

The cost accounting items of packaging and printing enterprises generally include base paper cost, fuel power cost, salary and welfare cost, manufacturing cost and so on. Among them, the cost of base paper accounts for the largest proportion.

In paper packaging enterprises, the cost of base paper accounts for about 70% of the total cost; In printing enterprises, the cost of base paper can be almost equal to the processing cost. It can be seen that the fluctuation of base paper price greatly affects the profit space of packaging and printing enterprises.

In addition, due to the long-term rise in paper prices, the market demand has been overdrawn in advance, which has led to insufficient motivation for the recent rise in paper prices and the price has been lowered. After customers learned the news, they asked packaging and printing enterprises to reduce their prices. The boss of a packaging enterprise said that the pressure of the last wave of paper price increase has not been fully transmitted, and now he is asking for price reduction. Enterprises can make a profit or lose money.

The price of paper is too high, and there are often arrears.

In the past few years, when the price of paper was relatively stable, the fluctuation of base paper price between supply and demand seemed to have eased a lot. Because of this, the vast majority of packaging and printing plants sign long-term contracts with customers, with few open terms, and some printing plants even have lump sum prices.

Customers hoard goods, and the interests of the industrial chain are damaged.

In the packaging market, because the price of paper is rising too fast, many end users hoard a large number of cartons, which leads to the recent sluggish market demand and the phenomenon of low peak season. Some packaging enterprises even grab orders at low prices, which harms the interests of the entire industrial chain.

In the printing market, well-funded publishing houses invest a lot of paper, and some savvy publishing units distribute the paper purchased in advance to cooperative printing enterprises for storage. Printing houses in a passive position in the industrial chain can only submit to humiliation and make room for publishers to occupy. Printing enterprises with small factory space even have to invest in renting warehouses to meet the needs of publishers.

Pessimism spreads, and technical personnel are lost.

Nowadays, labor shortage is the norm in the packaging and printing industry. For large printing enterprises in Beijing, it is not normal for any unit to be short of twenty or thirty employees. In recent years, the storm of environmental protection has been fierce, and the nerves of practitioners in the packaging and printing industry have been quite fragile. "When to move" has even become a common expression of greeting each other.

Coupled with the rising price of paper, the poor efficiency of enterprises has led to the rising pessimism of technicians, and it is not uncommon for packaging and printing practitioners to change careers. If this phenomenon continues to deteriorate, it will bring a huge blow to the whole industry.