Trend and Challenges in Malaysia Printing Industry
Tee Cheong Tuan
President,
The Selangor & Federal Territory Chinese Printing Press’ Association
  Content of this Presentation
   World Economics - Recap what happen in 2008
   Asia Pacific Economics C 4 key risks
   Malaysia Economics C GDP, Trade Performance,
   Malaysia Printing Industry C Key Statistics
   Malaysia Printing Industry C Trends & Challenges
  World Economics - Recap what happen in 2008
   US Subprime crisis spread to the rest of the world
   Global capital (debt & equity) markets collapsed
   US and European banking crisis
   Flight of foreign portfolio money from Asia and other high yield assets
   Reversal of Yen carry trades accelerated
   Trade credit disruptions
   Perceived counter party risks elevated
  Asia Pacific Economics C 4 key risks
   Potential external demand shock
    Large production capacity build-up C resulting over capacity
   Sharp slowdown in capital inflows and rise in cost of capital
    Risk capital inflows accelerated since 2003 for almost 5 years resulting in price bubbles
   Currency shock
    Dislocations in the balance sheets of many companies and countries with external liabilities
   Increased risk of financial instability
    Australia, India, South Korea and Indonesia most affected because of high current-account deficit and tight banking sector liquidity
  Malaysia Economics
  GDP and Annual Growth Rates, 2001 C 2008
  Quarterly GDP Growth, 2006 - 2008
  Malaysia Top 20 Trading Partners, 2008
  Malaysia Trade Performance, 2004 - 2008
  Malaysia Monthly Trade Performance, Jan 2007 C Jan 2009
  Malaysia Printing Industry
  Sales Value of Manufactured Products, Jan C Oct 2008
Description of Products |
2007 (Jan C Oct) RM’000 |
2008 (Jan - Oct) RM’000 |
% Change |
Manufactured of pulp, paper and paperboard |
1,544,103 |
1,709,909 |
10.7 |
Manufactured of corrugated paper and paperboard and containers of paper and paperboard |
2,631,622 |
2,987,298 |
13.5 |
Manufactured of envelopes, letter cards, correspondence cards or plain postcard |
165,568 |
248,834 |
50.3 |
Manufactured of toilet paper, cleansing tissues, towels, serviettes |
417,639 |
386,175 |
-7.5 |
Manufactured of gummed or adhesive paper in strips or rolls and labels, wallpaper |
356,995 |
362,270 |
1.5 |
Publishing of books, brochures, musical books and other publications |
783,356 |
808,713 |
3.2 |
Publishing of newspapers, journals and periodicals |
1,073,241 |
1,136,201 |
5.9 |
Other publishing |
597,394 |
594,582 |
-0.5 |
Printing |
410,307 |
419,506 |
2.2 |
Service activities related to printing |
1,361,014 |
1,486,279 |
9.2 |
  Paper & Board CImport /Export Statistics 2006-2008
  Machinery for Paper, Printing & Book Binding C
  Import / Export Statistics 2006 - 2008
|
EXPORTS (FOB-RM) |
IMPORTS (CIF-RM) | ||||
|
2006 |
2007 |
2008 (Jan-Sep) |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 (Jan-Sep) |
Paper/pulp Machinery for manufacture of Paper Articles; Parts. |
35,102,356 |
34,997,000 |
37,280,444 |
198,182,370 |
220,399,972 |
185,227,645 |
Printing & Book Binding Machine & Parts thereof |
884,595,656 |
850,502,861 |
431,980,486 |
819,178,379 |
895,946,991 |
536,357,539 |
  Printed Matter C Import / Export Statistics 2006 C 2008
  EXPORTS (FOB-RM x million) IMPORTS (CIF-RM x million)
|
EXPORTS (FOB-RM x million) |
IMPORTS (CIF-RM x million) | ||||
| ||||||
|
2006 |
2007 |
2008 (Jan-Sep) |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 (Jan-Sep) |
Books, Pamplets, Maps & Globes Printed |
596.18 |
570.56 |
448.45 |
570.70 |
522.56 |
402.28 |
Newspapers, Journals & Periodicals. Whether or not illustrated or with advertising. |
5.27 |
6.17 |
5.17 |
32.40 |
32.83 |
48.15 |
Postcards, Personal Greeting Message or announcement Cards and transfer printed by and process |
6.98 |
5.95 |
56.29 |
20.15 |
25.02 |
14.81 |
Printed matter not elsewhere specified. |
339.78 |
922.76 |
468.76 |
574.00 |
819.95 |
468.44 |
PRINTED MATTER |
948.21 |
1,505.44 |
978.67 |
1,197.25 |
1,400.36 |
933.68 |
Challenges
Increasing International Competition
Limited Domestic Demand
Promoting Outward Investments by Malaysian Companies
Optimizing Benefit from FTA
Mandatory Standards
Upgrading of Skilled & Qualified Workforce
Research & Development
Trends
Digital Workflow Environment
Copier Centre becomes digital printer, photo book, POD…
Prepress Houses turning into digital and offset printing services
More Printer acquired CTP, Digital printer, Web solutions, MIS…
Fast, Efficient and Quality Printer
More printing units installed such as 8-colours presses
Prefer Brand New over Used equipments
Grow in UV printing, Digital presses
Printers Go DIGITAL….