Apple Supply Chain Shock: Four Packaging and Printing Firms See Changes

Recently, Apple announced its Top 200 suppliers for 2020. Compared with the 2019 list, mainland Chinese manufacturers can be said to be the big winners again, as mainland manufacturers increased by 12 and decreased by 4, a net increase of 8 — the most of any country or region. Chinese Taiwan manufacturers increased by 6 and Chinese Hong Kong manufacturers also increased by 4, though Taiwan and Hong Kong likewise lost 6 and 4 respectively, leaving their totals unchanged.

In the packaging materials supply chain, this time as many as four enterprises were involved — the change could be called dramatic.

In this supplier list, the packaging material suppliers mainly include:

Cymmetrik, Yuto Technology, Jinjian Printing, Intramedia Incorporated, Meiyingsen Group, Shanghai Industrial, Kaicheng Technology, RR Donnelley, Stora Enso and Imperial Printing Ink.

Compared with the past, Taiwan's Cheng Loong and Japan's Seiko Ink were moved off the list, while Shanghai Industrial and Imperial Ink successfully entered.

It is worth noting that Cheng Loong, a supplier with whom Apple cooperated for many years, this time followed in Huacai's footsteps and was eliminated, showing the aging of this Taiwanese packaging giant. And Japan's Seiko Ink, which had just made the list last year and was praised by Apple's CEO as the world's number one, was pushed off by Japan's Imperial Ink.

This time, the Hong Kong-funded group under Shanghai Industrial,

Wing Fat Color Printing, returned to the list after one year away from Apple's supply chain, continuing to compete with Kaicheng, Stora Enso, Yuto and others for molded pulp packaging orders.

1. Taiwan Cymmetrik: Shenzhen, Kunshan, Kaifeng
2. Taiwan Intramedia Incorporated: Dongguan, Suzhou
3. Meiyingsen (MYS): Dongguan, Suzhou
4. Shanghai Industrial (Wing Fat Color Printing): Shanghai, Kunshan, Dongguan
5. US RR Donnelley: Shanghai, Chengdu, Kunshan, Dongguan, Prague, Czech Republic
6. Yuto Technology: Vietnam, India, Kunshan, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Xuchang, Vietnam
7. Stora Enso: Jiashan, Changzhou, Dongguan, Qian'an, Changzhou
8. Jinjian Printing: Kunshan, Chongqing
9. Kaicheng Technology:

In manufacturing circles, if you want to know which company is truly formidable in its industry, you need look no further: if it is an Apple supplier, it is basically at the industry's top level! Because to catch Apple's eye you really need solid strength, and half-baked manufacturers cannot get in.

At the same time, entering the Apple chain makes profits soar and share prices surge, and being expelled from the Apple chain leads to corporate losses and plunging share prices; this is also the main reason many enterprises attach great importance to Apple supplier status.

——This article is reproduced from China Packaging Network (pack.cn), original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-377527.html