2006 carton production equipment investment
Although most folding carton manufacturers in the United States believe that the US carton packers: The industry has not had much success in production, sales, and marketing in the past two years, most companies still have greater investment in equipment investment in 2006 than in 2005. About 38% of carton manufacturers increased their investment in equipment in 2006 compared with 2005, while in 2005, 41.2% of carton manufacturers invested more in equipment than in 2004. 28% of carton manufacturers cut their investment in equipment in 2006. In 2005, only 18% of carton manufacturers cut their investment in equipment.
Although the number of enterprises that reduced their investment in equipment investment in 2006 increased from 18% in 2005 to 28% in 2006, this does not mean that the actual situation of equipment investment in carton production enterprises has declined because of the reduction in equipment investment in 2006. Among the companies, 72% of the companies just invested heavily in 2005 to purchase new equipment or invested heavily to complete the upgrading of existing equipment. Only a small number of companies (18%) cut their investment in equipment in 2006. The reason is that the company is in short supply of funds.
Among the enterprises that increased their investment in equipment in 2006, more than half of the companies said that the purpose of increasing their investment in equipment is to improve and optimize the production technology level of the company as a whole. It is necessary to introduce advanced production equipment or upgrade existing equipment. Replacement and equipment updates. 46% of companies believe that if companies want to develop rapidly, they must increase their production capacity and expand production by introducing advanced equipment. If enterprises want to increase their profits, they must expand their business scope and open up new markets.
Among the equipment introduced by enterprises in 2006, the printing equipment ranked first, accounting for 18%; followed by folding glue equipment, accounting for 17%; adhesive preparation accounted for 10%; die-cutting equipment accounted for 9%; processing equipment accounted for 6%; Material handling and conveying equipment accounted for 6%. The vast majority of companies that introduced new equipment (83%) aim to increase new products and open up new markets.
Folding carton production expenditure in 2006
In the 2006 Folding Carton Industry Survey, more than half (54%) of the surveyed enterprises spent the same amount of money on production in 2006 as in 2005; 36% of carton manufacturers increased their production expenditure in 2006; only 10 % of companies cut their production expenditures.
Enterprises that increase production expenditures in 2006 believe that the increase in production expenditures is due to a rise in raw material prices (18%), an increase in labor costs (22%), and an increase in the cost of providing services to users (18%). ).
Of the carton manufacturers that reduced their production expenditures in fiscal 2006, 36% of companies implemented full-scale cost reductions in their production and operations; 29% of them spent mainly on employment.