Tingzheng Packaging Marching Forward in Green_Bobst RS3.0PLUS Gravure WBI Article

-- Bobst RS 3.0 PLUS Gravure Press Empowers Large-Scale Commercialization of Gravure Water-Based Ink

Source: Tingzheng Packaging × Bobst Joint Release | April 2026

In Tingzheng Packaging's push for WBI adoption, equipment capability has become a key variable. The arrival of the Bobst RS 3.0 PLUS gravure press is regarded as a critical turning point. Choosing Bobst is essentially choosing the globally leading innovation and high-quality production assurance it represents.

Looking back from the 2026 time coordinate, Tingzheng Packaging's development history is virtually a microcosm of China's flexible packaging industry evolution. With 32 years of accumulation, Tingzheng Packaging chose the most difficult yet most correct path: breaking through technical barriers via "source substitution" and pushing gravure WBI from the laboratory to large-scale commercialization.

Tingzheng Packaging's core advantage lies in the deep integration of scale deployment, agile response, and environmental pursuit. Currently, Tingzheng Packaging has established production bases in key regions including Tianjin, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Jiangmen, and Chongqing, leveraging the massive production capacity of over 40 flexible packaging and color printing lines to undertake the most challenging order tasks.

By building eight major digital systems encompassing ERP, PLM, MES, QMS, and more, Tingzheng Packaging is vigorously driving full-chain digital management from R&D to production, ensuring quality consistency across factories nationwide and transforming scale effects into genuine quality dividends. In 2025, Tingzheng Packaging's R&D investment exceeded 30 million yuan, with over 100 patents secured.

In environmental investment, Tingzheng Packaging has always spared no effort. Previously, the company's cumulative capital expenditure on end-of-pipe treatment (RTO) equipment exceeded 100 million yuan, with annual operating costs also reaching tens of millions. However, as national VOCs emission standards continue to tighten and global brand owners impose increasingly stringent "carbon footprint" requirements, traditional production models are facing unprecedented environmental pressures.

"We must break away from dependence on end-of-pipe treatment capacity and control pollutants from the source." Tingzheng Packaging firmly proposed a future-oriented "source substitution" development pathway and established the strategic direction of "replacing traditional solvent-based processes with eco-friendly WBI and solvent-free lamination."

The adoption of gravure WBI technology was long constrained by industry challenges such as slow drying, poor fine-screen dot transfer, and insufficient color saturation. Tingzheng Packaging collaborated deeply with equipment, ink, and plate suppliers through cross-industry cooperation. Through screen depth optimization, development of "high-concentration, low-viscosity" ink formulations, and standardized low-ink-volume operating procedures, Tingzheng successfully achieved the perfect balance between fine-screen transfer and color saturation in WBI processes.

In 2025, with the introduction and promotion of laser plates and the enhancement of pre-press capabilities, Tingzheng Packaging made significant progress in gravure WBI performance. Currently, the WBI printing speed at Tingzheng's Jiangmen factory has successfully broken through the 300 m/min barrier, shattering the industry prejudice that "environmental protection means low efficiency."

In Tingzheng Packaging's push for WBI adoption, equipment capability has become a key variable. The arrival of the Bobst RS 3.0 PLUS gravure press is regarded as a critical turning point. Choosing Bobst is essentially choosing the globally leading innovation and high-quality production assurance it represents.

Bobst's pioneering position in digitalization and sustainable development aligns closely with Tingzheng's vision of advancing toward "Smart Production." The future blueprint jointly constructed by both parties encompasses everything from automated ink dispensing to intelligent defect detection, from AI anomaly analysis to automated exception handling, and ultimately toward achieving the ultimate goal of "one-touch printing."

Table 1: Bobst RS 3.0 PLUS Core Performance Specifications

Additionally, the high-efficiency dual-surface drying system equipped on this machine achieves significant energy optimization while ensuring print quality meets the expectations for solvent-based ink substitution. For Tingzheng Packaging, the RS 3.0 PLUS has long transcended the traditional definition of a production tool - it is more like a bond, connecting both parties in infinite possibilities for data interaction, product development, and deeper strategic collaboration.

Through the application of gravure WBI technology, Tingzheng Packaging successfully reduced ink consumption by nearly 30% and cut solvent usage by approximately half. The environmental benefits brought by this "subtraction" approach are directly reflected in a significant decline in carbon footprint.

These tangible carbon reduction results have generated enthusiastic responses in the market. In particular, global brand owners intensely focused on "Scope 3" carbon reduction targets have given high praise to the green solutions provided by Tingzheng Packaging. This one-step-ahead green positioning has earned Tingzheng Packaging and its partners greater market initiative.

"On the path of sustainable development, no one can walk alone." Tingzheng Packaging's General Manager Mr. Hua Zhixiang expressed deep expectations for the future collaborative ecosystem. He looks forward to further breaking down barriers in technical exchange with strategic partners such as Bobst, elevating cooperation from simple equipment transactions to mutually synergistic innovation consensus.

Looking ahead to 2026, Tingzheng Packaging has set an ambitious green target: accelerate the phase-out of traditional processes, striving to elevate the WBI application ratio to above 60% within one year.

Building on over three decades of development, Tingzheng Packaging is practicing sustainable development principles with a forward-looking posture. Together with partners such as Bobst, they are seeking the golden balance point between efficiency and environmental protection in every collision of ink, material, and process, jointly providing customers, the industry, and society with even higher-quality green packaging solutions. This is not only Tingzheng Packaging's success - it is a magnificent journey of China's packaging industry advancing toward an "Innovation, Safety, Environmental Protection, and High Quality" sustainable pathway.