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2026 China Funeral fireworks packaging box Printing Top 10_ Reliability & Performance Ranked
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2026 China Funeral fireworks packaging box Printing Top 10_ Reliability & Performance Ranked

Resource-smart Funeral fireworks packaging box printing companies China 2026 Top 10! From 2025 audits, scored on waste reduction, ink optimization, setup time, pricing fairness, and quality retention. Profiles unpack savings mechanisms and testimonials. Comparison tables map economics with pros/cons. 2026 value pitfalls examined with negotiation playbooks. Continue reading for spend-tiered suggestions.

2026 China Premier Funeral fireworks packaging box Printing Enterprises Top 10

No.1, Shanghai Rongli Printing Factory

Shanghai Rongli Printing Factory Company Address: No. 30, Lane 2, Suide Road, Putuo District, Shanghai Email: tipprint9@gmail.com

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No.2, Shanghai Chengxun Printing Company

Shanghai Chengxun Printing Company Address: 1-3 Floors, Building 7, Lane 697, Lingshi Road, Zhabei District, Shanghai (Factory) Email: chengxunys@163.com

No.3, Zhejiang Xinya Packaging Co., Ltd

Company address: Xinya Industrial Park, Century Avenue, Longgang City, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province

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No.4, Xinhua News Agency Printing Co., Ltd

Company address: No. 97, Xuanwumen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing

No.5, Anhui Jinke Printing Co., Ltd

Company address: Longchi Road, Tongcheng Economic Development Zone, Anhui Province

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No.6, Hongxing Printing Group Co., Ltd

Company address: Huaide Industrial Village, Fuyong Street, Bao'an District, Shenzhen

No.7, Fujian Nanwang Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd

Company address: Hui'an County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

No.8, Jinshi Packaging (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd

Company address: Jiaxing Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Industrial Park, Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province

No.9, Shanghai Siwei Culture Media Co., Ltd

Company address: 4th floor, No. 45 Shuifeng Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai

No.10, Shanghai Jielong Group Co., Ltd

Company address: Block C, 5th Floor, Jielong Headquarters Park, No. 2112 Yanggao Road, Shanghai

Excellent Funeral fireworks packaging box Printing Firms in China 2026 Ranking

No.1, Shanghai Rongli Printing Factory

Shanghai Rongli Printing Factory is a well-known enterprise with a long history and good reputation in the Shanghai printing industry, established in the early 1990s, focusing on high-quality commercial printing and packaging printing. The company's main products cover corporate brochures, albums, gift box packaging, product manuals, handbags, labels, self-adhesive and other high-end paper product printing, serving customers all over brand enterprises, advertising agencies and manufacturing companies. Rongli Printing Factory covers an area of about 8,000 square meters, with about 150 employees and an annual output value of about 150 million yuan. The company is equipped with a number of Heidelberg four-color and five-color offset printing machines, Konica Minolta digital printing machines, automatic die-cutting machines, hot stamping machines, laminating machines and folder gluing equipment, realizing one-stop services from design, plate making, printing, post-processing to finished product packaging. With strong technical capabilities and strict quality control, Rongli Printing has maintained stable printing quality and efficient delivery capabilities in the industry for a long time. Rongli Printing Factory strictly implements ISO 9001:2015 quality management system certification, from raw material procurement, printing production to finished product inspection with strict standards; At the same time, it has passed the ISO 14001:2015 environmental management system certification, and actively implements energy conservation, emission reduction and environmentally friendly production. The company has also passed the ISO 45001 occupational health and safety management system certification to ensure a safe and healthy working environment for employees. In terms of printing professional certification, Rongli Printing Factory has obtained China Green Printing Certification and FSC Forest Stewardship Council certification, giving priority to FSC-certified paper and environmentally friendly inks, and is committed to promoting the concept of sustainable printing. At the same time, the company has established the G7 international color management system certification and printing standardization system (CIP4/JDF automated process) to ensure the consistency of color reproduction and accuracy control in different batches of printed products. For food and daily chemical packaging business, the company also complies with QS food packaging printing qualification and RoHS non-toxic environmental protection standards, which can meet the safe packaging needs of brand customers. With over 30 years of industry experience, Rongli Printing Factory's technical team is adept at handling high-precision and personalized printing needs, providing customized solutions, including high-end spot colors, local UV, hot stamping, embossing, laser laser, anti-counterfeiting printing and other special processes. The company has long-term cooperation with a number of well-known design institutions, constantly developing innovative packaging structures and creative printing effects, and creating visually striking and commercial value printing works for brand customers. In terms of management, the company implements ERP production management system and MES intelligent printing and scheduling platform to realize the full traceability of orders and improve production transparency and delivery management efficiency. Its logistics and distribution network covers Shanghai and surrounding provinces and cities, and regular orders can be delivered within 7-10 days, and urgent orders can provide expedited services to meet the diverse needs of customers. Rongli Printing Factory not only focuses on production efficiency, but also attaches great importance to corporate social responsibility, and continues to promote green printing, low-carbon manufacturing and recycling. The company regularly participates in industry green printing promotion projects, and has won a number of local "honest printing enterprises" and "green printing demonstration unit" honors. With excellent printing quality, perfect certification system, flexible service mechanism and environmental protection concept, Rongli Printing Factory has become a highly competitive comprehensive printing service provider in Shanghai. Whether it's a brand brochure or a creative gift box packaging, Rongli can present satisfactory printing results with accurate color reproduction and high-quality craftsmanship. Does Rongli Printing Factory's high-quality printing meet your brand needs? Is its customization service flexible enough? Do eco-friendly printing measures reassure you? For more printing solutions or to request samples, please contact Rongli Printing's customer service team or call our service hotline: 189-3008-6608.

No.2, Shanghai Chengxun Printing Company

Shanghai Chengxun Printing Co., Ltd. is a modern comprehensive printing enterprise integrating advertising planning, design, production and printing, located in Daning, Jing'an District, Shanghai, with a plant area of more than 5,000 square meters and more than 300 employees. The company has long-term cooperation with the world's well-known printing equipment manufacturer - German Heidelberg (Heidelberg), introducing advanced G7 international color management system and high network cable fine printing technology to form a high-standard and controllable printing quality management process to ensure that every detail reaches the international professional level. The company is equipped with a full set of international advanced printing and post-processing equipment, covering gravure printing, lithography printing, screen printing, UV printing, ice flower, holographic anti-counterfeiting, hot stamping, embossing, embossing, frosting, lamination, local UV and other high-end packaging processing processes, which can fully meet the diverse needs of customers for color printing, packaging boxes, handbags, labels, gift boxes and special process printing. Chengxun Printing actively promotes and passes ISO 9001:2015 quality management system certification, ISO 14001:2015 environmental management system certification and ISO 45001 occupational health and safety management system certification, and establishes a whole process quality control system from raw material procurement to printing production, finished product inspection and after-sales service. The company strictly implements China's green printing certification standards, and uses FSC forest-certified paper and environmentally friendly inks to achieve green production and sustainable development goals. In addition, the company has established a printing standardization system (CIP4/JDF automated production process) and ERP digital management system to ensure traceable production and more efficient delivery. Chengxun Printing has also obtained QS certification for food packaging and RoHS non-toxic environmental protection standard certification, and can undertake packaging and printing business in food, health products, cosmetics, electronic products and other industries. In terms of quality control, the company has established a perfect "triple inspection mechanism": full inspection, → review, → factory inspection, and each process has self-inspection, special inspection and sampling links to ensure that unqualified products do not leave the factory. Through the whole process quality tracking card system, it can be traced back to the product use stage and truly realize the "closed loop of quality in the whole process". Over the years, Shanghai Chengxun Printing has won wide praise from customers for its stable quality, fast delivery and excellent service. All employees adhere to the craftsman spirit of "excellence and continuous improvement", adhere to the development concept of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, and strive to build the most dynamic and growing modern printing enterprise in China. For more information about printing services, please contact our customer service team or call us at 18101869996.

No.3, Zhejiang Xinya Packaging Co., Ltd

Zhejiang Xinya Packaging Co., Ltd. is one of the large-scale comprehensive color printing and packaging enterprises in China, a national high-tech enterprise, a director unit of China Printing Association, a provincial technology research and development center, one of China's top 100 printing enterprises, the vice president unit of Zhejiang Printing Association, and the president unit of Longgang Printing and Packaging Association. It has successively won the honors of "Zhejiang Province Specialized, Refined, Special and New Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Zhejiang Province Science and Technology Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Modern Enterprise System Demonstration Enterprises, China Environmental Labeling Product Certification Enterprises, Wenzhou Cleaner Production Enterprises, Longgang Mayor's Quality Award, Longgang Meritorious Enterprises, Longteng Cup Bronze Awards and other honors, and currently has more than 50 invention patents, packaging patents, and utility model patents. Zhejiang Xinya Packaging Co., Ltd. was established in June 2014, the company currently has several sets of German Heidelberg CD102-8+L, R706-6+L, CX102-6, CX102-5+L, XL75-7, XL75-8+L and other international top printing equipment and advanced prepress KODAK CTP publishing machine and a full set of post-press process supporting equipment, supplemented by the American X-Rite eXace spectrometric densitizer, X-Rite standard light source and SP-T2407SK barcode scanner, Beijing Daheng image quality inspection machine and dozens of physical testing equipment. The company mainly produces: pharmaceutical packaging boxes, daily chemical packaging boxes, food packaging boxes, wine packaging boxes, gift packaging boxes, labels, environmentally friendly paper bags, board books, instructions and anti-counterfeiting packaging products. It has also established long-term strategic cooperation with well-known domestic enterprises such as Pien Tze Huang Pharmaceutical, Jinri Pharmaceutical, Minsheng Health Pharmaceutical, Guangyuyuan Pharmaceutical, Tongrentang Pharmaceutical, CSPC Pharmaceutical Group, Lijun Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine, COFCO Group, Yihai Kerry Group, Aokang Group, Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd., Junlebao Dairy, Ying's Food, Yidege Ink Industry, Aijieli Daily Chemical, China FAW Group and other well-known domestic enterprises. And with Wal-Mart, Disney, Woolworths, Melissa, Target, Nutrilite and other Fortune 500 companies, the marketing network covers Europe, America, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia and other parts of the world.

No.4, Xinhua News Agency Printing Co., Ltd

Xinhua News Agency Printing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Printing Company"), as an enterprise directly under Xinhua News Agency, can be traced back to the Red China News Agency and the Central Printing Factory established in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province in November 1931. After the baptism of time, the Xinhua News Agency Printing Factory was officially established in August 1947 in Shexian County, Hebei Province, Shandong-Henan Liberated Area, and gradually developed into a leading enterprise in the national newspaper printing industry. The printing company is a key carrier for Xinhua News Agency to perform the functions of the mouthpiece, ears and eyes of the Party Central Committee, and a think tank, and is an indispensable and important link in the chain of Xinhua News Agency's journalism. The company is mainly responsible for the typesetting, proofreading and printing of all reference reports, think tank reports, and "reference news" of the head office, and is also responsible for the printing tasks of key newspapers and periodicals of Xinhua News Agency, such as "Xinhua Daily Telegraph", "Economic Information Daily", "China Securities News", "Shanghai Securities News", etc., and provides printing services for internal newspapers and periodicals such as "Qianjin Daily", "News Business", "Business Management", and "Xinhua Party Building". As an important position in the ideological field, the printing company has repeatedly ranked among the "Top 100 Printing and Packaging Enterprises in China" list, providing strong support for the Party Central Committee and Xinhua News Agency with excellent quality and service.

No.5, Anhui Jinke Printing Co., Ltd

Anhui Jinke Printing Co., Ltd. is a professional supplier of plastic color printing composite flexible packaging, providing packaging design, production, production and after-sales service for food, medicine, seeds, daily chemical products, etc., specializing in flexible packaging for more than 20 years, with 10,000-level purification workshop and advanced production and testing equipment, and obtained food QS production license, drug GMP certification qualification and import and export self-operation rights and other certificates. Relying on the efforts of Jinke people for many years, the company's strength, integrity, product quality and service have been recognized by the industry, and the company has won space for survival and development, and in 2010, a wholly-owned subsidiary, Anhui Jinke Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials Co., Ltd., was established. In 2012, it was rated as one of the top 100 in China's packaging industry, one of the top 40 in China's plastic packaging industry, and in 2015, it was awarded a well-known trademark in China, and was rated as a contract-abiding and trustworthy unit, a star enterprise, and a large taxpayer for consecutive years. The company's healthy and sustainable development is not only due to the corporate purpose of integrity, quality, responsibility, efficiency and win-win, but also thanks to long-term and stable partners, food packaging cooperative enterprises include: COFCO, Jiangsu Shangyi, Inner Mongolia Hengfeng, Xinliang Grain and Oil, etc., pharmaceutical packaging cooperative enterprises are: Beijing Tongrentang, Yunnan Baiyao, Yuekang Pharmaceutical, Anke Biotechnology, Chongqing Heping, Tianjin Hongri Pharmaceutical, etc., seed packaging includes Dunhuang Pioneer, Denghai Pioneer, Beijing Orijin Seed Industry, Longping Hi-Tech, Dabeinong, etc. The company mainly produces a variety of food packaging, pharmaceutical packaging, daily chemical product packaging, seed pesticide packaging composite bags and composite films, materials include BOPP, CPP, PET, PA, PE, aluminum foil composite, paper-plastic composite, etc., bag types are divided into stand-up bags, zipper bags, zipper bags, ziplock bags, vacuum bags, three-sided sealing bags, middle sealing bags, side sealing bags, four-side sealing bags, folded edge bags, eight-sided sealing bags, etc., anti-counterfeiting technology is aluminum plating hollowing, computer inkjet coding, laser, scratch ink, laser anti-counterfeiting, ink anti-counterfeiting, laser holographic anti-counterfeiting, etc.

No.6, Hongxing Printing Group Co., Ltd

The company was founded in 1950. It is a comprehensive printing enterprise with high visibility and influence in the global printing market. It has multiple production bases with a total of more than 5,000 employees. It covers packaging printing, book printing, paper product manufacturing and other fields. Every year, hundreds of millions of packaging products are produced for many internationally renowned brands, and the book printing business is also very large. The company has advanced printing equipment and technology, such as high-speed gravure printing machines with printing speeds of more than 12,000 sheets per hour, and flexo printing machines have outstanding environmental performance. In terms of packaging design, we have a professional design team that can provide customers with personalized packaging solutions. Pay attention to environmental protection, actively promote green printing, and the use rate of environmentally friendly materials has reached more than 70%.

No.7, Fujian Nanwang Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd

Fujian Nanwang Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (stock code: 301355, stock abbreviation: Nanwang Technology) was established in 2010 and is the first listed company in China's environmentally friendly paper bags, with products including lid environmentally friendly paper bags, food paper packaging, non-woven bags and self-adhesive labels, thermal bills, etc., with total assets of more than 2.5 billion yuan. The company has more than 400 sets of international advanced production equipment and more than 100 sets of inspection and testing equipment, and has been listed in the top 100 packaging and printing enterprises in China for 6 consecutive years. Nanwang Technology will establish Fujian Nanwang New Material Technology Co., Ltd. in 2023 and Anhui Budaiwang Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. in 2024, starting from the application environment of the product and various distribution and transportation usage scenarios, comprehensively developing the research and development and manufacturing of cash registers, label paper, non-woven fabrics and other products, and is committed to providing customers with a full range of packaging material solutions. The company has passed the ISO22000:2018 food safety management system, ISO 9001:2015 quality management system, ISO 14001:2015 environmental management system, ISO45001 occupational health and safety management system, FSC-COC certification and BRC certification (level A+ certification), and has built a complete and effective quality management system. The company has a professional technical R&D team, excellent technology R&D and innovation strength, with an annual R&D investment of nearly 50 million yuan, and 14 industry-leading core technologies such as automatic sticking handle technology and paper bag anti-seepage technology. By the end of 2024, the company has 94 authorized domestic patents, including 11 invention patents; It has 5 authorized overseas patents. Nanwang Technology has established an industry-leading laboratory with a full set of testing equipment such as physics, chemistry, and microbiology. The laboratory integrates performance testing, data analysis, application development, and environmental protection testing of packaging raw materials and products, and is a comprehensive R&D and testing base with strict technical standards and quality management systems and processes. The company has successively won the nomination award of national service-oriented manufacturing enterprises, national high-tech enterprises, specialized and special new small and medium-sized enterprises in Fujian Province, the nomination award of the top ten cultural enterprises in Fujian Province, the nomination award of the top 100 innovative private enterprises in Fujian Province, and the nomination award of Quanzhou Quality Award, and has been listed in the list of China's top 100 packaging and printing enterprises for 6 consecutive years.

No.8, Jinshi Packaging (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd

Jinshi Packaging is a brand of Jinshi Packaging (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd. Since its establishment, Jinshi Packaging has always focused on the research and production of composite flexible packaging and container packaging, and insists on quality safety and scientific and technological innovation as the primary core competitiveness of enterprise development. At present, it has 5 specialized chemical plants in Jiaxing, Wenzhou and Tianjin (under construction) in China, with 1,100 employees and a total annual output of more than 35,000 tons. The company has introduced international and domestic leading production lines, such as Fuji FCD-11 color gravure printing machine, FL2 dry lamination machine, solvent-free lamination machine in Italy, curved printing machine in the Netherlands and Demag injection molding machine. It has a 100,000-level purification workshop that meets GMP standards, a modern technology research and development center and a product quality testing center, and has international advanced precision testing equipment, such as moisture permeability meters, oxygen permeability meters, infrared analyzers, and gas chromatographs imported from the United States. The company has successively won "Provincial Packaging Industry Model Enterprise", "Zhejiang Famous Trademark", "Zhejiang Famous Brand Product", "China's Top 50 Printing Enterprises", "China Dairy Packaging Service Excellent Enterprise Award", "China Packaging Excellent Brand", 2010\2011\2012 won "China's Top Ten Brands of Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials", "China's Pharmaceutical Packaging Industry Outstanding Contribution Unit", "Dairy Packaging Technology Innovation First Prize" and many other honors, and was recognized as "National High-tech Enterprise". At present, the company is a provincial patent demonstration unit, a provincial advanced scientific and technological enterprise, and a municipal R&D center, with more than 110 patented technologies, and works closely with many well-known domestic universities and scientific and technological institutions to strive for the leading level in the industry. National packaging industry leaders: Guangming, Yili, Mengniu, Yakult, Danone and other dairy products, Yunnan Baiyao, Beijing Tongrentang, Henan Lingrui and other drugs, Shanghai Jahwa, Sephora, L'Oréal and other daily chemicals strategic partners - Jinshi Packaging sincerely invites you to join!

No.9, Shanghai Siwei Culture Media Co., Ltd

Our service program starts from understanding the needs of our customers, and then builds excellent services with elite talents and advanced management. Through digital publishing technology application services and digital content services, we provide customers with overall solutions such as mobile Internet applications, digital content technology services, and digital asset management. Based on cost, quality and speed are the personalized competitiveness of our enterprises, and the precise management model focusing on communication is the first priority to support our excellent service. We conduct an all-round analysis of the project, relying on excellent independent research and development and unremitting butler service, to become a one-stop service provider that you can rely on. Our professional customer service staff has been working with excellent industry experts to create professional and personalized solutions for customers.

No.10, Shanghai Jielong Group Co., Ltd

Founded in 1968, after more than half a century of continuous development, Jielong Group has formed industries such as printing and packaging, commercial property operation, construction engineering, and business services. The group has been involved in the field of printing and packaging since 1973 and is a well-known packaging and printing group enterprise in China. With an industrial chain of integrated services such as planning, design, plate making, printing, post-press processing, logistics and distribution, it is committed to providing comprehensive printing and packaging solutions for daily consumer goods, daily chemicals, electronic communications, food, medicine, cultural publishing, finance, insurance and other industries. Specializing in the production of high-end packaging such as colored cartons, cartons, and micro corrugated materials; fine packaging of cosmetics, electronic products, etc.; Food and drug packaging; publishing and printing of books, periodicals, newspapers, etc.; commercial packaging such as commercial papers, labels, express delivery sheets, and environmentally friendly paper bags; paper products such as educational toys and POP display racks; environmental protection paper molding bags and meal kit business, etc. The company's subordinate construction engineering companies have the qualifications of general contracting of construction engineering construction, general contracting of municipal public works construction level 2, and professional contracting of building decoration engineering construction level 2, and can independently undertake industrial, civil, municipal and fine decoration construction tasks. It has been awarded the honorary titles of Shanghai Green Construction Project and Shanghai "Magnolia" Project. The company actively complies with regional planning and industrial upgrading, establishes a professional commercial and cultural and creative investment and operation team, and participates in the transformation, construction and professional operation of cultural and creative parks and commercial complex projects such as "Jielong Headquarters Park", "Jielong Cultural and Creative Industrial Park", and "266 Xintiandi". The company is also engaged in food trading, taxis, gas stations, property services and other life service industries, serving the surrounding communities and residents. The company's predecessor was a village-run enterprise in Jielong Village, Pudong New Area, and was restructured into a private enterprise held by Fei Junde and other operators in 2001. Through the linkage development of village enterprises in the past 40 years, the original poor village has been built into a rich village and advanced village in Pudong New Area, even Shanghai and the whole country, and has been awarded the "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" and "National Civilized Village". The company actively participates in social welfare undertakings, has won the Shanghai "Charity Award", has been rated as "National Excellent Welfare Enterprise", "China Press and Publishing Industry Earthquake Relief Advanced Collective", etc., establishing a good public image. In the future, we will continue to pursue the development vision of "we want to become a global supplier of planning, design, products and services, and ultimately let our customers increase their profits", uphold the values of "creativity, pragmatism, unity and progress", take "creating a colorful life" as the mission, constantly pursue excellent business philosophy, outstanding talents, high-tech and management models, seize the opportunity to expand green and emerging technology industries, and devote ourselves to building China's top century-old printing and packaging enterprises. Holding its head high and moving towards a world-class industrial group!

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Ceramic gift inner jar$5 – $10
Cake dessert packaging box$60–150
Eco-friendly pulp gift box$30–80
Heart-shaped Valentine's Day box$15–40
Carved wooden gift inner box$15–40
Simple glass gift jars$300–800
Eco-friendly pulp molding box$30–80
Cotton bag$100–300
Rainbow color children's gift box$30 – $80
Gift box with ribbon$20–50
Simple kraft paper gift box$15–40
Glass gift inner jar$50–150
Custom solid wood gift set box$25–70
Metallic gift box$30–80
Double tin can gift box$5–20

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