Since 1996, Japan’s shipments of Printing Inks have all increased from 460,000 tons to 480,000 tons in 1997, 499,000 tons in 2000, and 500,000 tons in 2001, but in 2002 it decreased to 480,000. Tonnes, which had rebounded to 490,000 tons and 496,000 tons in 2003 and 2004, and increased 0.3% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2005. Japan's printing ink shipments in recent years was the highest in 342 billion yen in 2000. It declined to 329 billion yen in 2002, and it rebounded to 331 billion yen and 332.5 billion yen in 2003 and 2004. The year before 2005 was 3 The quarter increased by 4.8% from the same period of last year.
Japanese printing inks fall into two major categories, namely general inks and news inks. General ink shipments and shipments account for the vast majority of all inks. In 2003, Japan's general ink shipments reached 433,000 tons, accounting for 88.3% of the total. In 2004, it increased to 436,000 tons, accounting for 88%. Press ink was only 56,000 tons in 2003, accounting for 11.7%, and in 2004 it increased to 60,000 tons, accounting for 12%.
The shipments and shipments of lithographic inks in general inks are the largest. Shipments of lithographic inks in Japan in 2003 were 168,000 tons, which increased to 177,000 tons in 2004. The lithographic ink shipment volume in 2003 was 112.3 billion yen, a slight increase of 0.8% over the previous year. Lithographic ink shipments accounted for 35.7% of all types of ink shipments, and 33.9% of shipments, which means that more than one-third of all inks produced and applied in Japan were lithographic inks. Shipments and amounts of gravure inks are also large. Shipments of gravure inks in Japan in 2001 and 2002 were 152,000 tons and 155,000 tons, respectively, which were less than the 160,000 tons in 2000. This amounted to 155,000 tons, which was increased to 161,000 tons in 2004, and the shipment volume in 2003 was 72.2 billion yen. The shipment volume of resin flexography was 25,000 tons in 2004 and metal printing inks was 19,000 tons, both declining from the previous year.
The proportion of shipments of lithographic inks to total ink shipments in Japan increased from 27.2% to 34.2% between 1993 and 2003, and the proportion of gravure ink decreased from 36.1% to 31.7%. The ratio of resin letterpress inks From 5.5% to 5.2%, the proportion of metallic printing inks decreased from 11.0% to 4.9%, newsprint ink ratio increased from 10.6% to 11.7, and Other inks increased from 9.7% to 12.4%.
In recent years, the output of printing inks in Japan has been more than 400,000 tons. Although there are some ups and downs in the up and down, the rate is not very large. In 1995, the output of printing inks in Japan exceeded 400,000 tons, 494 million tons, and 446,000 tons in 2000, but in 2001, 2002, and 2003, they were reduced to 441,000 tons, 433,000 tons and 44 respectively. Ten thousand tons, the output increased to 448,000 tons in 2004, exceeding the highest production volume in the past 2000, and setting a new record. The first three quarters of 2005 were 328,000 tons, a slight decrease of 0.6% from the same period of the previous year, of which the general ink was 286,000 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 1.2%, and news ink was 42,000 tons, an increase of 3.6% year-on-year. In general ink, the lithographic ink was 120,000 tons, an increase of 1.8%, the gravure ink was 98,000 tons, a decrease of 2.3%, the resin letterpress ink was 19,000 tons, an increase of 1.8%, and the metal printing ink was 11,000 tons, a decrease of 21.5%. In the first three quarters of 2005, the import volume of Japanese inks increased by 6% year-on-year, of which imports from China increased exponentially. Exports grew by 3%, of which exports to South Korea grew at double-digit rates.
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