Steady Growth! Through The 67-year Time Cycle, How Does Yiyao Printing Do It?

Steady growth! Through the 67-year time cycle, how does Yiyao Printing do it?

The editorial department of "Print Manager" magazine carefully planned a special report on "Climbing Action", with the theme of "Striving to Climb Resilient Growth", by excavating and reporting high-growth enterprises, hidden champions, and excellent cases, to stimulate the wisdom and courage of change in the whole industry chain, boost industry confidence, and lead industry growth.

The company reported in this issue is Tianjin Yiyao Printing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Yiyao Printing).

➤The secret of the stable development of Yiyao Printing is to deeply understand customer needs, continue to innovate R&D processes and products, and actively respond to market changes.



Founded in 1958, Yiyao Printing has undergone many reforms and changes, but its heart for development has not changed. Following the changes of the trend of the times, Yiyao Printing has maintained a steady growth trend, adhering to the concept of high-quality development, and has established two production bases in Tianjin and Zhenjiang to provide professional packaging services for pharmaceutical manufacturers. How can an old state-owned enterprise maintain its vigorous vitality and sustainable development?

Continue to innovate and move forward

"Do everything with heart, innovate and be honest every day" is the core value of Yiyao Printing. For a long time, Yiyao Printing has been focusing on the field of pharmaceutical packaging, continuously developing new projects, new products and new processes, and constantly promoting the enterprise forward with deep cultivation and innovation. With more than 60 years of development, Yiyao Printing has accompanied many corporate customers to gradually grow and enter the global stage. Pharmaceutical packaging itself is not a "product", but Yiyao Printing always pays attention to customer needs and constantly innovates and improves to make the packaging perfect.

As the anti-counterfeiting process has gradually become an indispensable part of pharmaceutical packaging, Yiyao Printing has continuously improved the research and development capabilities of the anti-counterfeiting process, and summarized the process characteristics into 12 words: "high-tech, low-cost, easy to identify, and identifiable." In 2018, Yiyao Printing innovatively launched the "sand dyeing" process that can be used for pharmaceutical packaging anti-counterfeiting, using a variety of materials to achieve a fine UV reverse effect, compared with the packaging box of the traditional printing process, the surface texture of the product using this process is delicate, and the aesthetics and recognition have been greatly improved.

In 2022, Yiyao Printing retained the advantages of "sand dyeing" technology and process, organically combined it with special materials, developed a unique "Fantasy Color" process, and expanded the application scenarios and functional special effects. The "Color" process can be combined with a variety of anti-counterfeiting technologies to achieve multiple anti-counterfeiting, and the product presentation effect is better and more cost-effective.

In addition, Yiyao Printing attaches great importance to the green environmental protection of the whole process of pharmaceutical packaging production, and takes the initiative to innovate and transform equipment and processes. From the use of green ink, water-based varnish and other environmentally friendly materials, to the construction of the first "zero alcohol" printing production line in North China, Yiyao Printing has carried out many tests and technical adjustments, and finally completed the transformation of environmentally friendly production, eliminating the generation of alcohol-containing raw materials and waste. For Yiyao Printing, the goal of innovation is never to achieve the goal, but to continuously improve.



Innovation and improvement is not only the upgrading of process technology, but also helps customers grasp the trend and change. For a long time, the R&D and design team of Yiyao Printing has paid close attention to the new policies and requirements of the State Drug Administration on pharmaceutical packaging, and tracked the changes in pharmaceutical packaging regulations in real time. Generally speaking, pharmaceutical packaging design involves a number of national standards, and it is difficult for ordinary advertising companies to fully control the design requirements. Yiyao Printing can assist a customer to complete the process adjustment of more than 700 products within 3 months, helping the customer grasp the timeliness of the policy and avoid the risk of production suspension caused by compliance issues.

In 2023, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the "Pilot Work Plan for the Reform of Drug Instructions for Aging and Barrier-free". In response to the policy of adapting to the elderly, Yiyao Printing has innovatively developed a small program for the elderly of the drug instructions, which has been rigorously tested and updated and launched simultaneously with the revision of the customer's product instructions. In the view of Yiyao Printing, the core competitiveness of the enterprise comes from the in-depth understanding of customer needs and continuous self-innovation. "Meeting and exceeding customer expectations" is not a slogan, but a code of conduct that is integrated into every link. When customers can achieve both compliance and social value, it is natural to have a sense of trust in long-term cooperation.

Lay out digital intelligence for the future

East China is home to about 60% of the country's innovative pharmaceutical companies, but there is no smart factory specializing in pharmaceutical packaging. This is a gap in the market, and it is a strategic opportunity for Yiyao Printing. Therefore, under the strong support and careful guidance of TEDA Holdings and TEDA Industrial, Yiyao Printing has comprehensively analyzed the market environment, industry situation, economic environment and other factors, and decided to continue to play the leading role of state-owned enterprises and the pioneering spirit of daring to be the first in the industry, and establish the first full-chain intelligent factory in the pharmaceutical packaging industry in East China.

In order to build a smart factory, Yiyao Printing has mobilized elite forces to set up an intelligent team, and on the basis of the existing digital construction experience of the Tianjin factory, it has opened up the information island and built a new intelligent system. In 2024, the smart factory of Yiyao Printing (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Yiyao Jiangsu) will be completed and put into operation, which marks that Yiyao Printing has entered a new stage of digital production. Yiyao Jiangsu uses digital technology to reshape the existing pharmaceutical packaging production process, and deploys digital management systems such as ERP, MES, WMS, etc. From order access to ERP system to APS automatic scheduling, to MES production execution and automatic logistics system, Yiyao Jiangsu has achieved full-link data penetration.



It is suitable for the printing of three-dimensional library

The completion and commissioning of Yiyao Jiangsu is a strong stroke in the history of Yiyao printing. The completion of the smart factory solves the problems of insufficient production capacity and geographical limitation in the planning of Yiyao Printing, and at the same time achieves the strategy of market development and intelligent upgrading of Yiyao Printing. The essence of intelligence is to make every production decision have data support, and each technology iteration has a digital mirror, which is the confidence of Yiyao Printing to be at the forefront of the pharmaceutical packaging industry.

Steady development builds dreams

A new wave of the times is coming, printing and packaging enterprises are facing many unprecedented challenges, and the choice of Yiyao Printing is to follow the trend and look forward, steady and steady. Based on the reliable products delivered over the years, Yiyao Printing has been rated as an inspection-free supplier by many customers at home and abroad, and is a high-quality partner that makes customers "rest assured".



In order to better serve customers and continue to provide stable and high-quality pharmaceutical packaging, Yiyao Printing has never stopped optimizing the pace from equipment updates, quality testing, to rapid service response. In the past two years, Yiyao Printing has been promoting the intelligent construction of the Jiangsu factory, and at the same time, it has also continued to update the main production equipment of the Tianjin factory, especially in the main processes such as printing and die-cutting, which are highly automated equipment such as Heidelberg in Germany and BOBST in Switzerland. In addition, Yiyao Printing strictly carries out the quality management of the whole process of pharmaceutical packaging production, not only strengthens the testing of the processing suitability of raw materials through the establishment of a quality laboratory, but also actively configures digital testing equipment to enhance the "hard power" of quality inspection. With the professional perspective of pharmaceutical people, Yiyao Printing has turned packaging into the "last quality inspection" of pharmaceutical safety and the "first business card" of brand value.

Facing the future, Yiyao Printing has a specific action plan in terms of market expansion. The first is to strengthen in-depth cooperation with key customers, understand customer needs, and keep up with the development of new projects and new products. The second is to continue to explore new markets, take Jiangsu smart factory as the "East China hub", build a "3-hour delivery circle" covering Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, and strive to develop the East China market. The third is to focus on the development of new products, new technologies and new processes, enhance the company's technology research and development strength and core competitiveness, and further help market expansion by promoting the transformation of research and development achievements.