Southwest China | 135“The restriction of international logistics, the increasing price of upstream raw materials and the launch of updated environmental policies compel us to strive for Omet 12-color fexo press in Zhiyueinnovation and change”of the company’s total business,’ Huang tells L&L. produce up to 6 million pharma labels in a day, along with With the development of the company and a gradual 10 million BOPP and PE tapes. The company has 63 employees, understanding of the consumer label market, Huang realized including 28 professional technicians.the necessity of connecting directly with brand customers to To improve its R&D base, Kunming Heyu cooperates with achieve long-term growth. professional print colleges, universities and scientifc research Gaoda began gradually reducing its trade label orders and institutions – for example the Kunming University of Science studying in-depth local industries including liquor, beverages and Technology, Yunnan University, Yunnan School of Chemical and pharma, gradually accumulating a number of high quality Technology, Yunnan Press and Publication News, and the Yunnan brand customers. Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision.The company began investing in new production equipment Focused on the research and production of high-end adhesive including a Label Source full rotary letterpress, screen press, products, Kunming Heyu’s label output includes paper, PET, Weigang in-line fexo press, Luster and Zhongheng inspection environmental protection labels, RFID labels, and other special label systems and a Jianhong high-speed die-cutting machine. constructions. The company claims to rank frst in term of market Just eight years after its establishment, Gaoda has developed share in Yunnan Province.from one person and one press to an annual output value of nearly One specialty of Kunming Heyu is anti-counterfeit pharma labels, 30 million RMB (USD 4.7m), with fve years of consecutive growth. and the company is credited with replacing the outsourcing of Today its label products are widely used in the food, beverage, these products from other provinces. pharma and other markets, and the company has expanded into RFID labels, anti-counterfeiting and trackable labels for industrial Guizhou Yumaxianlabel users with special requirements such as oil resistance, Founded in 2009, Guizhou Yumaxian has a production space of temperature resistance and lightfast. 3,300sqm and 39 employees. Starting from a single small label press, the company now owns an extensive battery of equipment Chengdu Zhiyue including a Weigang 8-color in-line fexo press, 6/5/4-color Chengdu Zhiyue is a subsidiary of Chengdu First Packing group. intermittent offset presses, a screen press and comprehensive First Packing group was established in 2015, producing labels post-press facilities including fully-automatic inspection machines, and instruction manuals. After a major investment in new an automatic laminating machine, Xinpengxing hot stamping production machinery in 2017, Chengdu Zhiyue was offcially machine, and high-speed slitter and die-cutting machines.established in 2018. Yumaxian has positioned itself as a comprehensive service Zhiyue offers a wide range of PS products, including trackable supplier integrating design with printing, slitting and inspection labels, pharma labels, digital labels, die-cut products, flm switches of PS labels. and also instruction manuals. The company operates in the food, wine, pharma and household Today the company is equipped with an Omet 12-color UV fexo chemical sectors and prints on a wide range of materials including press, Zonten intermittent offset press, another 10-color full rotary coated paper, PVC, PET labels, and frangible labels.press, high-speed die-cutting machine, AVT Helios C quality control Guizhou Yumaxian has developed long-term cooperative system, engraving machine, X-rite IGT color matching system and relationships with a number of well-known Guizhou-based an XRF testing system. enterprises including Maotai Group, Yelanggu Wine group, Hanke Adhering to a strategy of digitization and automation, Zhiyue Junfeng Wine group, Ethnic Liquor Group, Laogandie Food, installed ERP and MES lean production management systems. Sifang Cereals and Oils, Guizhou Xinyuan Biological Technology, More recently the company has adopted apps for remote and Guishanhong Food, Guizhou Communications Construction Group mobile working. For warehouse management, Zhiyue uses a high and Sinopharm Group’s Guizhou division. The company’s annual rack automatic storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) incorporating output is valued at over 20 million RMB (USD 3.2m).intelligent warehouse location management. In the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, production capacity control ‘Automation and intelligence are the inevitable trend of the by the Chinese government and the rising cost of raw materials, future development of the label printing industry,’ says Peng Yumaxian actively communicates with material suppliers to Dong, general manager of Zhiyue. ‘As we progress, Chengdu collaboratively push forward the application of new materials and Zhiyue will continue to deepen and strengthen its construction technologies, to reduce costs and achieve win-win growth with the of intelligent systems.’ end customer.In response to the Chinese government’s national environmental Kunming Heyu protection policy, the company outsourced CTP and fexographic Kunming Heyu was founded in 1999, with a production workshop platemaking to specialized suppliers in 2018; all its waste gas has covering 5,600sqm. The company is equipped with an HP Indigo been treated with activated carbon before discharging. In addition, 6900 digital press, Weigang ZJR-330 in-line fexo press and a the company’s operators use sustainable machine cleaners, dedicated coating machine. environment- friendly ink and reduce the use of multi-layer Kunming Heyu supplies PS roll labels, packing tapes (with coated products.lettering) and other adhesive products. The company can typically Jan - Mar 2022