Soft Packaging Materials and Packaging Market Development Trends

With the rapid spread of scientific and technological information and the continuous emergence of high-tech and new and superior materials, flexible packaging is moving in the direction of “quality assurance” and “innovative design”.
In Asia, Japan, South Korea, China, Indonesia and other countries are actively developing packaging materials. Japan also actively researches packaging design, ranking first in Asia in terms of technology and level. Japanese companies invest 10% of their retail prices in packaging, which is higher than in other Asian countries. Therefore, the packaging of Japanese products is the most beautiful in the world. Europe and the United States attach great importance to packaging must comply with environmental protection requirements, while focusing on packaging technology innovation. In recent years, Germany and the United States have achieved the most remarkable results.
China's color printing box packaging and color printing plastic flexible packaging is the main body of light packaging. The major markets are food, beverages, household chemicals, medicine, clothing, toys, and audio. The traditional concept of “people taking food for the heavens” and the stability of the two consumer groups, the children and the elderly, have great potential in the food packaging market. In recent years, China's food industry has maintained a momentum of sustained, rapid, and healthy development. The total output value continues to rank first in all sectors of the national economy and plays an important role in the national economic construction. According to statistics, during 1993-1998, the output value of the food industry increased from 342.86 billion yuan to 590 billion yuan (calculated at 1990 constant prices), with an average annual increase of 11.60%. Packaging has become the embodiment of the company's image, is the guarantee of product quality, and is a direct means of occupying the market.
With the development of the food industry, the requirements for food packaging have become increasingly stringent. Traditional color printing plastic flexible packaging technology and the use of raw materials, will be people's attention and raise objections. For example, BOPP has been used as surface material, can print a variety of color graphics, CPP, PE, PET, etc. as the lining material, composite bag after the bridge dry compound machine. The food packaging bags manufactured by this composite process cannot be completely dried during the production process. The printing ink and the organic solvent solution glue liquid agent are deteriorated in the middle and slowly and continuously diffuse outwards to form hazardous substances to the outside of the product. Pollution.
Due to the continuous improvement of materials and processing technology, flexible packaging is playing an increasingly important role in many areas. By 2002, the sales of flexible packaging in the food industry will exceed 56% of the sales volume of the packaging and processing industry, and the rest will be the consumer goods industry market. Sales are evenly distributed on perishable foods and dried foods. Among perishable foods, bagged foods are the fastest-growing segment, including meat, agricultural products, and other frozen foods. These foods are usually packed in large-volume vacuum films and placed at the periphery of the supermarket. By 2002, bagged meat products had become the fastest growing segment at a rate of 20% per year. The main raw materials used will include clean, anti-fog packaging materials, high barrier films, and widely used shrink films. By 2002, more than 30% of fresh meat packaging will use bag-type packaging. However, the market characteristics, size, and complexity of packaging requirements will result in diversification of packaging materials over a period of time.
With the popularity of banquets and smoked sausages for breakfast, its packaging film will be the fastest growing segment at a rate of 9% per year. Metallocene metal is gradually replacing ionomer or ethylene vinyl acetate as a sealing material. Although the sales of fresh sausages have entered a recession due to their high fat and the reduction in the number of people eating it at breakfast, new flavors and low-fat varieties still help to increase the demand for packaging films. For many markets, especially the fast food and candy markets, novel patterns are necessary, and it can often trigger people's desire to buy. Many foods require that the packaging be highly moisture resistant, which may have a significant positive impact on the packaging film market. Other markets include cereals, pet foods, and coffee. Most foods are often prominently placed in the middle of supermarkets. Individual foods may be placed in collection offices or convenience stores to stimulate consumer purchase desires.
Candy is the most profitable segment and continues to grow at a rate of about 5% because consumers are willing to buy more than 70% of the total sales. Therefore, packaging manufacturers use high-quality packaging patterns (especially metalized patterns). Low-fat candy market opportunities also help promote the development of the packaging industry. High-end pet foods use more expensive packaging materials and have a growing share in the market. These foods contain more expensive, oxygen-sensitive ingredients and require more. Good packaging protection.
Industrial products sales and sales are the largest areas. The growth rate of health-care packaging products was the fastest, rising by 6%. Products that use flexible packaging materials include soaps, cosmetics, disposable paper products, and other retail outlets.
Hong Kong and Taiwanese packaging companies have realized that in order to gain a firm foothold in the market, they must give top priority to protecting the environment, protecting the goods, and protecting the health of consumers. People-oriented, increase investment in science and technology capital, further enhance product quality, use novel and unique packaging materials and methods, closely follow the development of modern packaging industry. For example, VMCPP materials have been used step by step: VMCPP materials contain a thin layer of hinged aluminum. Compared to BOPP and CPP, the air permeability of VM-CPP is low. VMCPP packaging material is more suitable for China with a vast area. Because China is separated by thousands of kilometers from north to south, it is divided into cold, temperate, sub-tropical and tropical climate regions. The temperature difference, humidity difference, and air pressure difference are relatively large. The problem is very important, because of the defects in packaging materials (regardless of their chemical transfer factors) caused by the loss of the shelf life of the product is extremely serious. The use of this material ensures that the fresh-keeping product does not deteriorate within 9 months.
European packaging materials have moved towards the use of polyethylene (PE)/titanium (Tk/EVOH/titanium (Ti6)/polyethylene (PE)) five-layer co-extruded materials, replacing the previous multi-layer composites. This new material is not only good Apart from its performance, it does not require any compounding and laminating processes, which saves costs and meets environmental requirements.
In short, flexible packaging has penetrated into every part of the manufacturing field. The flexible packaging transformed from hard packaging will continue to develop, but the speed will slow down because many of the most easily converted jobs have been completed. The total development speed of flexible packaging is expected to be slightly faster than the total national product development rate.

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