The Present Situation and Development Trend of Chinese Paper Product Packaging

The development of the carton industry is inextricably linked with the development of the paper industry, paper product processing industry, paper packaging machinery industry and related industries. During the “Ninth Five-Year Plan” period, China’s economic development became internationalized and the number of international trade increased, which promoted the scale of paper packaging companies, their product quality, and their packaging level. The exchanges between the paper packaging industry and related industries at home and abroad are increasing. The number of joint ventures has increased. Advanced technology and equipment at home and abroad have been introduced, and advanced management experience has been absorbed. This has improved the quality and quantity of products, and has enabled the packaging of export goods and domestic demand goods. The rate has increased significantly.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the corrugated board production line was 60 to 80 meters/minute. With the change of the market, the increase in the quantity of packaging quality required us to provide higher speed, wider paper width, and more automation. High, man-machine dialogue is more smooth than the corrugated paperboard production line, but also requires us to break the traditional design ideas in the design of the corresponding machinery. The successful development of the fine-diameter corrugating machine has led to the development of the design of the production line to a multi-functional combination. The same production line has realized a combination of different types of products, effectively satisfying the production of cardboard and the production of color box color boxes, and the energy Comprehensive utilization, improvement of economic benefits, and improvement of production efficiency have produced remarkable results, satisfying the needs of the market for small-sized product packaging. At present, China's paper box, cartons, composite flexible packaging and other paper products account for about 50% of the output of production, paper packaging products, corrugated boxes, color tile boxes accounted for 85%, has been able to initially meet the needs of the national economy.

China's packaging industry statistics show that during the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1996-2000), China's packaging industry has undergone major adjustments, which is also an important factor in the continued development of China's packaging industry. In 1995, the annual output value of packaging industry was 117.4 billion yuan, of which paper packaging was 6.42 million tons; in 2000, the annual output value of packaging industry reached 220 billion yuan, of which paper packaging was 13 million tons, accounting for 56.5%; packaging and decorating output was 271.33 billion. India, packaging machinery output 48.9 (million sets).

The production of paperboard in China has grown at a faster rate, from 7.4 billion square meters in 1995 to 8.5 billion square meters in 1996, 9.5 billion square meters in 1997, 10.4 billion square meters in 1998 and 114 in 1999. Billion square meters, an average annual increase of 1 billion square meters, an increase of 53% from 1995 to 1999, an average annual increase of 11.3%, significantly higher than the average growth rate of the world and Asia; 2000 production of 12.3 billion square meters, than The increase was 8.4% in the previous year. In the world's top ten cardboard production, China far exceeds 6 billion square meters in Germany, 5 billion square meters in France, 4.6 billion square meters in Italy, 4.3 billion square meters in the United Kingdom, and 3.6 billion square meters in Canada. Second only to the United States of 37,700 million square meters and Japan's 13.5 billion square meters, ranking third.

Cartons are mainly used for the packaging of home appliances, food, medicine, daily chemicals, transportation vehicles, tobacco and alcohol, etc. In recent years, due to the improvement of transportation conditions and handling methods, there has been a trend of tilting from transport packaging to sales packaging. It means that the paper package needs to have high strength and light weight. At the same time, the printed artwork is clear, the colors should be bright, and the shapes must be new and beautiful. This puts forward new requirements for the quality of raw paper and paperboard, processing and printing of paper packaging containers. With China's accession to the WTO and the increase in international trade volume, fruits and vegetables and frozen meats need to be kept fresh. Frozen and frozen foods have more special requirements for paper packaging containers.

Carton printing has evolved from monochrome printing to multi-color printing. With the development and quality improvement of flexographic printing technology and supporting equipment, it has reduced the number of processing steps used in carton printing, reduced production costs, and has light printing pressure and environmental protection. Water-soluble inks, especially for corrugated box printing, have satisfactory results, so the international printing process has developed rapidly. It is expected that in the near future, it will be the mainstream of the printing process together with the traditional offset printing process.

Although the domestic start is late, there are companies that have already adopted flexible printing. The box technology is developed from the nail box to the sticky box, and new processing technologies such as the UV coating of the carton are maturing.

According to the current development of carton and carton production, the requirements for related machinery and equipment are getting higher and higher, indicating the development trend for the further development of high-speed, high-grade and efficient box and box machinery.

China’s current entry into the “10th Five-Year Plan” period of economic construction is also the first year after China’s accession to the WTO. The impact of China’s accession to the WTO has brought a lot of heavy pressure on all walks of life in our country, and it also gives us the same impetus. It will bring hope to the country and will bring benefits to the people. The carton and carton packaging industry is an integral part of the national economy, and the impact of China's accession to the WTO is inevitable. The strength, breadth, depth, and strength of the impact must be determined by the resistance of the industry and the impact of external forces. With the economic growth, it is expected that China's paper industry products will continue to grow at an annual growth rate of 8%. With the increasing volume of domestic and foreign trade in paper products, it is predicted that the growth rate of 8% will meet the needs of commodity packaging.

According to the statistics of China's imports of paper and board varieties and quantities during the “Ninth Five-Year Plan” period, packaging paperboard is the main imported variety, among which the import volume of kraftliner and high-strength corrugated base paper accounts for more than 80% of the total amount of paperboard, and domestically produced kraft boxes Cardboard and low-weight, high-strength corrugated papers are not only in short supply, but there is still a gap between quality and imports. For the time being, they cannot meet the market demand for the quality of paper packaging products.

The “Tenth Five-Year Plan” of the paper industry has listed newsprint, high-grade cultural printing paper, packaging paper and cardboard as the focus of development. According to the understanding of relevant parties:

In 2002, China's containerboard was the most competitive year for all kinds of paper. The capacity of over 1 million tons put into operation in 2000 was up to the standard in 2002. The paper machine that was put into operation in 2001 will release production capacity in 2002. In 2002, there will be large-scale paper machines such as Guangdong and Yunnan put into operation, too concentrated new users Will further increase competition in the market.

During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, it is expected that: In 2005, the output value of packaging will be 320 billion yuan, the output of paper products will be 19 million tons, the output of packaging and decoration printing products will be 477 billion, and the output of packaging machinery will be 67 (10,000 sets).

At present, China’s economic development is in a rising period. China has a large population and the huge consumer market is very attractive. The modern economy is a global economy, an economic power such as the United States and Japan. There will not be much increase in the production of paper packaging products, which will also reduce the number of imported goods, which will also affect China to a certain extent. These economically and technologically advanced countries will adopt outward expansion methods and compete in foreign markets with capital investment, transfer equipment, and technical cooperation. We can use this opportunity to develop ourselves.