The emergence and establishment of modern packaging industry and packaging technology

Since the 16th century, the rapid development of industrial production, especially the European industrial revolution in the 19th century, has greatly promoted the development of the packaging industry, which has laid the foundation for the emergence and establishment of modern packaging industry and packaging technology.

The rapid development of the packaging industry has played an increasingly important role in promoting the national economy and improving the people’s material and cultural life. As an independent industry system, the packaging industry has been included in the national economic and social development plan.

With the transformation of China’s role in the world’s manufacturing factories, China’s production of goods has increased rapidly, and more production capacity has entered China. China is in an era of industrialization, and is transforming itself through automation to increase industrial efficiency. The same holds true for the food packaging machinery industry. , continue to move toward automation and intelligence.

The overall level of packaging machinery in China lags behind that of developed countries. The fundamental reason is that the key technologies are not sufficiently mastered. Therefore, in the future development experience, domestic manufacturers need to improve their own technical level and design concepts. In the future, new packaging machines with intelligent and automated functions will gradually replace traditional ones into the mainstream. This is an effective way for packaging machinery companies to achieve sustainable development, and it is also the ultimate goal of their technological reforms.

New packaging machines are often electromechanical devices that take full advantage of the latest results of information products. Designers of some enterprises in our country are not familiar with electronic products and are afraid to or will not choose them, which greatly limits the improvement of packaging machinery. For example, many foreign new-type packaging machines mostly use separate transmissions, which greatly shortens the drive chain of the entire machine, greatly simplifies the structure, and greatly increases the accuracy and speed of work. The key technology here is to use the synchronization technology of multi-motor drive. In fact, it is not difficult to master this technology, but some designers do not understand this trend of packaging machinery. Another key technology is the large number of servo drives. Old designers do not design and use servos and their control systems.

Advanced packaging machinery uses a large number of new detection systems to ensure the stable and reliable operation of packaging machinery. With the increased penetration of automation companies to the industry and the development of information technology, more designers have accepted advanced automation technologies and have used advanced automation products to improve the performance of the equipment.

Relevant experts suggest that China's packaging machinery industry can only use scientific and technological innovation, close to users, and independent research and development as soon as possible to replace the traditional mode of blind introduction and counterfeiting, so that China's packaging industry and the market can develop healthily. At the moment when the industry is facing a new round of structural adjustments, technological upgrades, and product replacements, domestic companies need to adopt independent innovation and in-depth digestion to develop their businesses and enhance their competitiveness with a pragmatic attitude in order to become a giant in the packaging machinery industry.

As people's eyes become more and more demanding, plastic packaging is changing with each passing day. In recent years, Japan's plastic packaging industry has developed rapidly. It is estimated that the demand for soft and rigid plastic packaging in Japan will reach 6.9 billion in 2017.

When talking about the factors affecting the development of the plastic packaging industry, people first think of the relationship between market supply and demand, raw material cost prices, and downstream end product market conditions. However, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, cultural tastes, especially consumer preferences, are gradually affecting the sales of plastic packaging products.

Canadean, an authoritative market research agency, has been focusing on the plastic packaging industry in Japan. Japanese consumers and their emphasis on product packaging. They have strict requirements on the shape, color, label, and detail design of the product's plastic packaging. As a result, those plastic packagings that are completely flawless in appearance can always have a large consumer market in Japan.

The report pointed out that in addition to the supply and demand relationship, consumer preference is an important factor affecting the trend of the Japanese plastic packaging market. Roden Stafford, chief market analyst at Canadean, said that in order to cater to the special preferences of Japanese consumers, plastic packaging manufacturers always do articles on product designs. This also explains why cosmetics, luxury goods, beverages, and beauty products from Japan appear to be so exquisite and high-grade.

Although larger Japanese companies are able to relocate some or all of their production sites to low-cost production sites, the resources of SMEs are limited and there is no room for operation. Therefore, the problems faced by Japanese SMEs are even more complicated. In short, the magic weapon for survival in Japan is the development of new technologies.

Larger companies in Japan's plastics industry are looking for a broader market abroad, especially in low-cost Asian countries. The preferred choice is China, although some companies strive to maintain independence and avoid over-reliance on China. Injection molding companies that have begun production and operations in China are expanding into other Southeast Asian countries. A spokesperson for the Japan Plastics Machinery Association (AJPM) stated that many Japanese companies would prefer Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia or India.

At present, Japanese plastics processors and mold makers still face some so-called “intangible barriers,” such as the continuous appreciation of the yen against the US dollar, as well as fierce competition from suppliers of low production costs and labor costs. These factors caused the price of Japanese products to be much higher than those of competing suppliers. However, Japanese companies rely on innovation and technology-supported high value-added products and services to ensure their position in the international market. At the same time, Japanese suppliers are also actively exploring the international market.

At present, the popular packaging in the market is mainly plastics and paper. The blow molding industry, which is mainly based on plastic film blowing machines, has a large proportion in the market, but with the increasingly stringent requirements for the paper industry, new environmental protection and energy saving The index raised the threshold of the paper industry, resulting in an increase in the cost of the paper packaging market and an increase in prices. This resulted in a corresponding increase in the share of plastic packaging in the market, stimulating the development of the film blowing machine manufacturing machinery industry.

Twelve mandatory national standards for rubber and plastic machinery in China have been formulated. In recent years, people have increasingly realized through research that the development of the machinery manufacturing industry will not only bring about economic prosperity, but also bring about high incidence of injury accidents. How to ensure production safety, including the personal safety of operators and the safety of equipment use, has been a major issue that has attracted much attention in the process of industrial development in China in recent years.

Paper packaging costs are increasing: plastic machinery is becoming weaker The rubber and plastics equipment manufacturing industry is a late start but fast-growing industry in the entire machinery industry in China. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the rubber and plastics machinery manufacturing industry has become a national and even a national in the Chinese machinery industry. The proportion of the economy has increased year by year, and production, sales, export trade, and benefits have grown rapidly. As far as rubber and plastics machinery products are concerned, we must handle the safety and safety of production equipment itself in order to implement the principles of preventive safety engineering in all stages of the product life cycle from product design and manufacturing to use and maintenance. Relationship. That is, we must start from the standard and work out the product safety standards. The research on the safety of rubber and plastic machinery in China and the formulation of standards have been mentioned on the agenda during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period.