China's packaging industry has large social demand, increasing scientific and technological content, and has become one of the important industries in our national economy. It is predicted that from 2011 to 2015, the total output value of the packaging industry can reach 600 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. By 2015, paper packaging products will reach 36 million tons, plastic packaging products 9.46 million tons, metal packaging products 4.91 million tons, glass packaging products 15.5 million tons, and packaging machinery 1.2 million sets. By 2020, China's packaging industry will meet the needs of building a well-off society, and build a new type of Chinese packaging industry with high scientific and technological content, good economic benefits, low resource consumption, less environmental pollution, and full play of the advantages of human resources. The packaging industry has become a "sunrise" industry with great potential for development.
Food and beverage industry is the use of packaging industry, at present, China's packaging industry chain is continuing to extend, its extension to the upstream direction of the industry raw materials, but also to the downstream consumer goods market development.
With the discovery and application of more and more packaging materials, the types of packaging materials in China are more abundant. Due to the rapid development of the material industry, there have been many new packaging materials, such as microwave special packaging, cooking packaging, (polyester) bottles and other new composite materials, as well as high pressure resistance, barrier, heat sealing, gas resistance and other high-performance packaging materials.
At present, the automatic packaging solutions feel that there are still many unreasonable places in China's packaging industry, that is, from the perspective of product structure, simple, original products, deep processing and finishing products less; The proportion of ordinary plastic packaging products is large, and the development of functional packaging products is not enough; Heavy plastic packaging products Light plastic packaging materials, heavy equipment light technology, heavy production light research and development; The slow replacement of products leads to unreasonable structure of plastic packaging products and cannot fully adapt to changes in market demand. Second, from the enterprise structure, the overall scale of plastic packaging enterprises is small, and the industrial concentration is low. Third, from the perspective of regional structure, the packaging industry in the western region is relatively backward, and the plastic packaging industry in the east of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong and Fujian is very developed.
The development of packaging industry in the future is not only limited to the research and development and application of packaging materials themselves, but also in the deep processing, China's packaging industry is still in the downstream of the entire packaging industry chain, low level packaging process more, the sustainable development of the future packaging industry also needs to fundamentally adjust the industrial structure.
In the downstream of the packaging industry, the function of packaging has long been not only limited to the protection of food, easy transportation, etc., it has become one of the value growth points of commodities, is an important link to improve the added value of commodities. Therefore, in the end market, packaging companies are paying more and more attention to the humanization and functionality of packaging.
In addition, the packaging industry began to pay attention to the impact on the environment. Because the use of packaging materials occupies a lot of material materials, or the packaging materials pollute the natural environment or damage human health, the green packaging has become an important content of green marketing. Lightweight and degradable have become an important concept in many enterprises' product marketing. In addition, new concepts such as intelligent packaging, anti-theft packaging, active packaging, aseptic packaging and ventilation packaging have also begun to appear around us, and are used by many food and beverage companies.
At present, the packaging industry is still in a stage of rapid development, but some experts expect that in the future, China's packaging industry has long-term overcapacity, excessive reliance on energy and resource consumption, weak independent innovation ability, enterprise competitiveness is not strong, industrial scale and economic benefits are not commensurate with structural and quality defects will be highlighted. Extending the industrial chain of the packaging industry, deepening the packaging industry, optimizing the industrial structure, and enhancing the ability of independent innovation will be the development trend of the packaging industry in the future.
