How Does Dingjia Printing Transform Into A Smart Green Factory With An Annual Investment Of Tens Of Millions?

At present, under the dual impact of the digital wave and the concept of sustainable development, printing enterprises urgently need to complete the transformation from extensive production to lean operation, and realize the transformation towards green and intelligent modern factories. Every step you take, you have to face the difficult choices of "attack or defense", "elimination or retention", and "investment or savings". In this transformation, "green" is no longer an option, but a necessary question for the survival of enterprises. In recent years, Beijing Dingjia Century Printing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Dingjia Printing) has actively promoted transformation and upgrading, created a green factory, and embarked on a sustainable and green path.

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Double pronged approach to win the 'green battle'
The green upgrade of the traditional printing industry is like a self revolution and a brave "battle" to move forward. Enterprises need to achieve a difficult transition in their development model from heavy to light, and from extensive to lean.
Green development involves all aspects of enterprises. We take 'whole process greening' as our core concept, which runs through the entire life cycle of printing design, production, logistics, and recycling. We adhere to the principles of 'environmentally friendly, healthy, beneficial, and efficient', and strive to achieve a win-win situation for social and economic benefits, "said the person in charge of Dingjia Printing.
To promote the implementation of green factories, Dingjia Printing is leveraging digital transformation to empower green development. Starting from 2018, Dingjia Printing first chose production equipment optimization and process optimization as breakthroughs, coupled with the application of visual inspection systems, automatic palletizing robots, and unmanned transport vehicles, to a certain extent, achieved sustained reduction in production energy consumption, steady improvement in production efficiency and per capita output value.
On this basis, we have also introduced a digital control platform to monitor energy consumption and emissions 24 hours a day, establish an automatic alarm mechanism with safety compliance as the lower limit and maximum efficiency as the upper limit, deepen management accuracy, refine management dimensions, and enable production management positions to grasp details faster, making production operations more efficient, streamlined, and transparent. "These changes have gradually led Dingjia Printing from being "experience driven" to a virtuous cycle of "data-driven".

On the other hand, Dingjia Printing achieves clean production and energy conservation through technological transformation and innovation. Since 2016, Dingjia Printing has been divided into three phases to build a distributed photovoltaic power generation system, with an annual power generation of about 2 million kWh and an annual carbon reduction of over 1000 tons. In addition, the factory workshop is fully equipped with LED lighting, centralized ink supply, centralized gas supply, centralized humidification treatment, centralized dampening liquid circulation refrigeration, and centralized ink roller circulation refrigeration. At present, we maintain an annual investment of tens of millions of yuan in green technological transformation. These measures not only reduce the environmental burden, but also allow us to taste the sweetness of greening. Energy costs have been significantly reduced, and resource utilization efficiency has been significantly improved

Dingjia Printing Factory Photovoltaic Roof
Entering today's Dingjia printing workshop, it is difficult to find the traditional impression of sweaty workers and bustling scenes. The entire production building is like an "experimental field".
Robots accurately transport goods and assist in palletizing; AGV cars efficiently shuttle between floors to transport materials; The photovoltaic solar panels on the roof convert sunlight into clean electricity, meeting almost all of the production electricity demand during the day; The central gas supply system of the air compression station not only reduces the noise in the workshop and makes the environment more friendly, but also converts the low-temperature waste heat discharged from the air into a heat source for domestic hot water, which is supplied to the dormitory area of the entire cultural entrepreneurship park for use; Every drop of water used in production has been recycled multiple times and ultimately utilized in stages; The backend digital control platform actively collects information from various sensors, and upon discovering anomalies, alerts supervisors at all levels and follows up on the progress of problem resolution"
These scenes, which were just imagined blueprints many years ago, have now become a reality at Dingjia Printing. "The person in charge of Dingjia Printing sighed.

Dingjia Printing Production Workshop
With the determination to adhere to green development and continuous breakthroughs in exploration and practice, Dingjia Printing has gradually transformed from an ordinary printing factory into a "national level green factory" and a "Beijing digital workshop", and has gradually explored the direction of high-quality development through the integration of greening and digitization.
Greening has not only changed production methods, but also reshaped business logic. The person in charge of Dingjia Printing admitted, "In the past, we only knew how to close the door to compress procurement costs, but now we open the door to calculate carbon accounts and find profits from greening." This transformation has opened up new growth points for Dingjia Printing while saving energy and reducing emissions. Every technological upgrade and every detail optimization confirms a truth: green is not a burden, but the confidence of sustained competition.

Dingjia Cultural Entrepreneurship Park
Transforming 'fighting alone' into 'joint operations'
In the deep waters of green transformation, the difficulty of innovation is increasing, but what is even more challenging is the deep-rooted "island thinking" among enterprises. Dingjia Printing, through a "shared survival experiment" and relying on the industrial chain ecology of Dingjia Cultural Entrepreneurship Park, has innovatively upgraded the "lone battle" of fighting alone to a "joint operation" of resource interconnection, exploring a new green development path for the industry.
In the past, the competition between printing companies and upstream and downstream was like a zero sum game. Lowering procurement costs meant lowering supplier profits, and pursuing delivery efficiency often came at the cost of resource waste. We took the lead in breaking the deadlock and formed a 'Green Procurement Alliance' with multiple companies in the park to concentrate on purchasing raw and auxiliary materials, thereby increasing bargaining power

Dingjia Printing Production Workshop
The person in charge of Dingjia Printing said. This attempt was quickly deepened, and Dingjia Printing directly introduced consumables suppliers into the park, creating a "customized supply chain". After the consumables supplier is stationed, the inventory is dynamically adjusted according to the needs of each production enterprise, and a "JIT on-demand direct supply" material distribution model is adopted, which once again reduces the costs of both supply and demand parties and turns the supply chain into a "win-win chain". This two-way collaborative transformation has brought unprecedented joy to both parties who used to pull each other apart.
At the same time, Dingjia Cultural Entrepreneurship Park, with Dingjia Printing as the main body, has created a demonstration center for innovative achievements in the printing industry under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Beijing's "14th Five Year Plan" related planning policies, relying on the existing basic conditions and real scenes of production enterprises in the park.
Under the guidance of the higher-level association, the center adopts an open operation mode and showcases green innovation achievements through an integrated approach of "innovative solutions+real scenarios+industrial ecological chain". It organizes technical exchanges and project promotion to promote the green and digital transformation of printing enterprises in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region, achieving a healthy development of "co construction and sharing".
Under the guidance of the 'dual carbon' goal, the printing industry is undergoing profound changes. Dingjia Printing fully supports and vigorously promotes the innovation achievement demonstration center in the printing industry, which is a platform built for brave fighters. The future will surely belong to those pioneers who embrace green concepts, achieve digitalization, and are good at collaboration earlier.
Through a series of explorations and practices, Dingjia Printing has deeply realized that "greening is the ecological foundation and inevitable requirement of sustainable development; digitization is the innovative driving force and technological support of sustainable development; and intelligence is the advanced stage and optimization path of sustainable development." This understanding is guiding Dingjia Printing to continuously unlock the password of sustainable development in exploration and promote enterprise transformation and upgrading.
The transformation from traditional manufacturing to green and intelligent manufacturing proves that sustainable development is not an unattainable ideal, but a down-to-earth action.