Analyze the five major trends in plastic packaging

1. Packing lightweight

Lightweight is a commonly used industrial term used to describe the practice of weight reduction of packaging by using less material to produce. Plastic packaging is increasingly favoring lightweight materials, and almost every plastic package emphasizes this in terms of shape and structure. Reducing the weight and thickness of packaging materials faces many challenges. The lightweight packaging needs to maintain the performance and functionality of the original packaging, which is a major test for the production technology of lightweight packaging materials. In the past few years, a series of material innovations and technological advances have made great progress in packaging lightweighting.

In fact, the reason why the lightweight packaging can get a positive response from most companies is not only environmental protection, but also because the lightweight of the packaging allows the company to use less packaging materials and directly save a lot of cost. Therefore, with the increase in raw material prices in the future, the value of packaging lightweighting is increasingly prominent for enterprises.

2. Functional film

In recent years, the plastic film market is gaining momentum, showing a clear trend than the traditional packaging materials, such as paper packaging, cardboard, aluminum foil and other markets. At the same time, the packaging film is thinner and more functional, driving the market to grow at a higher speed.

Functional film is one of the most promising applications in the development of new packaging technologies. Plastic packaging films such as high barrier properties, high temperature cooking, low temperature freezing, active packaging, heat shrinkable film, baking resistance and antibacterial properties have become hot spots in the market. Especially in terms of barrier properties, high barrier films will become the focus of enterprise research and development in 2014 due to their excellent barrier properties, which have the effect of preserving, preserving and prolonging the life of food. The new transparent high barrier film that has been introduced is gradually getting closer to the distance between aluminum foil and metallized film. The new film not only provides a good display effect for the contents, but also avoids problems such as cracking of the aluminum foil and the conventional metallized film after being bent.

3. Bio-based plastics

As is known to all, oil is a scarce resource that is not renewable. The imbalance of oil resources in various countries and the predatory exploitation of developed countries have become an important factor in the turmoil in the world. Therefore, the development of biodegradable materials and the reduction of petrochemical resource consumption have gradually become the consensus of all countries in the world, especially developed countries. In recent years, related technologies have developed very rapidly, and more and more bioplastics have appeared in the packaging field.

4. In-mold labeling packaging

In-mold labeling technology has been introduced into China's plastic packaging market more than 10 years ago, and has caused quite a stir in the industry. However, due to various factors, it has not been able to achieve breakthrough development in China, and its market share is still small. Fortunately, the domestic in-mold label packaging market, which has been covered by "hard ice" for many years, has begun to re-energize and set off a small climax in the plastic packaging market. Especially in the field of fast-moving consumer goods packaging, under the pressure of rising labor costs, the number of fast-moving consumer goods companies in the market and using in-mold labeling packaging technology is not rare. The in-mold labeling package adopts the processing method of container molding and labeling once, which saves the labeling link and has obvious advantages in saving labor costs.

5. Convenient packaging

In the past, packaging has done enough homework on shelf display, protection, and convenient transportation, but there are still insufficient packaging convenience. Nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards and the accelerating social rhythm, consumers' demands for packaging are constantly increasing, thus promoting the innovation and development of packaging in convenience. Many of the previous plastic packaging had to use teeth or scissors to open them, and most of these packagings now have a more convenient and quick way to open them.

The emergence of new sealing technology, such as re-sealable zippers and screw caps on liquid flexible bags, helps consumers open the package without tearing any of the bags. In addition, the latest convenience packaging can also achieve self-heating, direct microwave heating, retort resistance, automatic cooling and other functions.

In summary, in 2016, the plastic packaging industry will focus on five areas of lightweight packaging, functional film, bio-based plastics, in-mold label packaging and convenient packaging, and they are not independent, but a close connection. Overall.