U.S. small paper bags increased demand in 2020 is expected to reach  $ 10.1 billion.

By 2020, small paper bags US market demand is expected to increase by 4% on the basis of 2015, reaching $ 10.1 billion, the main driving force of market development sachet into new markets, while in mature markets high value-added products increase.

According to the latest market report published by the Freedonia Group, "paper" (Pouches), food and beverage market constitutes the largest part of the demand for paper bags, and in 2015 about 80% of this section. Paper bags for pet food, for meat, poultry, seafood, and increase the speed of the beverage section is the fastest. Non-food applications is growing, such as pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and industrial markets, demand for paper bags is also increasing.

Other findings of the report include:

Vertical paper will continue to be the mainstream, bag the biggest growth opportunity lies before popular rigid packaging applications. The maximum extension occurs at the earliest recipients of this paper bag vertical markets, including beverages and pet food. The biggest growth has been in the manufacture of cheese and, of these vertical markets began to shift from big bags or paper bags flat bag.

Annual growth rate of the flat bag, and about 3.7% in 2020, in 2020 the market value of up to $ 7.3 billion. Seal bag flat bag will support the market, thanks to the use according to the amount of packaging, including detergents, pharmaceuticals, medical products and some food. Pillow bag 2020 is expected to reach 40% of paper sales in the confectionery and snack areas of its unshakable.

In addition, the paper added value will continue to support growth in the market with such products and extrusion products can be repeatedly closed, very rapid growth.

Source: Internet

IKEA with mushrooms environmentally friendly packaging materials instead of polystyrene

Minister of Sustainable Development, UK IKEA Joanna Yarrow said that as a flat-pack furniture retailer, IKEA is considering using biodegradable "mushroom packaging materials" to reduce waste of resources, promote recycling. ,

Joanna said: "We are looking for innovative material to replace the existing packaging materials, such as the use of such material fungus mycelium alternative to polystyrene."

Mycelium by a large number of tubular hyphae slender structure, rooted in the soil of the mycorrhizal.

US Ecovative company let mycelium corn stover, corn bran and other agricultural waste clean around the growth of this fungus breed product called "mushroom packaging material".

Just a few days, fungi on fiber wound around the waste, solid and strong, followed by drying to prevent fungal growth to continue.

Ms. Yarrow said IKEA is considering the introduction of mycelium packaging materials, because "many products are used by the polystyrene packing material, but this material is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to be reused."

Polystyrene materials require thousands of years to degrade, degradation program mycelium material simple, just throw them in the garden, they can naturally degrade within a few weeks.
Source: Internet

How to effectively reduce the damage rate of packaging bags under low temperature environment

Soft plastic food packaging products less prone to deterioration in a cold environment, the shelf life can be relatively extended because of the low temperatures inhibit the reproduction and growth and the probability of food nutrients not easily oxidized, so there are moldy, rancidity and other issues of food microorganisms generally lower [ 1,2]. However, a low temperature environment has also brought side effects, reducing the probability of deterioration of the product occurs at the same time, the product will in the transportation, storage and sales process of packaging and sealing integrity of adverse effects. For example, in the production line of frozen dumplings bag rupture phenomenon does not appear, but after after frozen storage bag or seal rupture phenomenon. How to make a low temperature environment, the appropriate choice of packaging materials or packaging materials to improve performance, reduce product breakage rate in a cold environment, food companies are troubled by problems of quality.

At low temperatures, the soft polymer plastic materials have increased brittleness tendency, prone to embrittlement phenomenon. Because at low temperatures, soft plastic packaging segment corresponding molecular mobility of the polymer material to reduce the internal deformation under loads decreased, diminished capacity to resist impact, causing soft plastic packaging reduces flexibility, fragility, namely packaging material flexibility and impact resistance at low temperatures deteriorates, resulting in intolerance external shocks occurred broken bags, leak, etc. breakage. In order to improve the soft plastic packaging material at a low temperature embrittlement is not easy, you need to feed their inner join toughening additive such as, but exactly how cold, can withstand low temperatures, cold resistance should be verified by testing.

Is obtained by pendulum impact resistance at a relatively low temperature and the standard ambient conditions (mostly minus 18 ℃) under the test could, as cold is not less than a certain fixed percentage ratio (for example BOPA / LDPE composite film cold required not less than 60%), then the packaging material at low mechanical strength obvious physical deterioration does not occur, as the lower the ratio, the worse the material described cold.

First, the test method and apparatus

1. Test equipment

FIT-01 Film Impact Tester (Labthink blue light): According to the principle of conservation of energy research and development. Semicircular instrument punch at a certain speed and impact through the membrane specimen, according to the energy consumed by the punch, and thus anti-pendulum impact evaluation capability of the film.

Impact energy equipment have 1J, 2J, 3J three ranges, and can be extended to 5J, a resolution of 0.01 J; punch diameter divided Φ25.4mm, Φ19mm, Φ12.7mm are three sample clip mouth diameter Φ89mm, Φ60mm two kinds; and pneumatically clamping the specimen. In addition the device can be used for precise determination of material plastic film, sheet, composite film, foil and other anti-pendulum impact energy, but also for paper, cardboard and other anti-pendulum impact energy test smoke Metallized paper bag, Tetra Pak paper packaging plastic composite film.

Figure 1FIT-01 film impact tester

2. test procedure

Anti-pendulum impact test method to be tested in the cold can reference GB8809 "plastic film anti-pendulum impact test method."

(1) cutout

Respectively, from No. 1, No. 2 specimen surface and cut 10cm × 10cm sample each 20, and placed in 23 ± 2 ℃, at least 4h at 45% ~ 55% RH environment.

(2) Thickness

Thickness of the sample were tested No.1 2. The center position of the test specimen of each point, the thickness of the two samples were collected from 20 samples the arithmetic mean of the test results.

(3) low temperature

The two samples from each of 10 randomly-cut sample into -18 ℃ low temperature environment 2h.

(4) Equipment Calibration

Selection of appropriate diameter punch and impact range, so that the test results of the sample between 10% to 90% range is selected. The test selected diameter Φ12.7mm punch, sample jaws diameter Φ89mm, the impact of the range of 3J. In accordance with the requirements of the equipment calibration.

(5) test specimens at room temperature

The specimen in the clamping device, depress the gas pedal, the clamp specimen. Click the Test option, punch down, impact of the sample, the device automatically displays the test results of the sample. This operation is repeated until the 1st, 10 samples Sample No. 2, without low temperature tests were completed.

(6) low temperature sample test

After the sample cold treatment is complete, remove, according to (5) of the step test.

Second, the results and discussion

Pendulum impact resistance of the film after -18 ℃ environment can be measured placed measured divided by the standard environmental conditions of the film anti-pendulum impact energy is cold, the unit is%.

After testing, the cold sample No. 1 was 85.4%, cold sample No. 2 was 95.2% .1 cold sample number was significantly lower than sample 2, which is a low temperature environment under the 1st sample flexibility have decreased big deterioration, brittleness increased significantly, significantly reduce the impact of packaging performance, tolerability impact, crush, drop a large degree of performance degradation and other destructive, and sample No. 2 in the low temperature flexibility than the change small, still maintain a high impact strength, which is caused by the cold northern regions 1 package of instant noodles sample breakage rate increase and an important reason for the 2nd instant noodle packaging is damaged samples showed no significant change.

Third, the summary

Cold is an important performance indicator soft plastic packaging materials, packaging materials, is the assessment of changes in the physical properties of flexibility at low temperatures, is an indicator of the product packaging should focus on low-temperature environment in circulation. By selecting the appropriate resin material to improve materials packaging materials processing, add the appropriate amount of the plasticizer, the choice of having a good low temperature resistance of packaging materials and other measures can effectively improve the cold bag to prevent bag breakage rate at a low temperature environment increase. Labthink has always been committed to providing professional and welcoming packaging testing equipment testing services to customers worldwide. Learn more information about the testing instruments, Labthink blue light and look forward to the industry enterprises and institutions to promote technology exchange and cooperation.
Source: Labthink

Intelligent packaging to open the door of food safety

With advances in technology, intelligence has become a blue ocean market development. As a sunrise industry, as long as the industry and smart detached have gained tremendous benefits. 4.0 With the advent of the industrial concept, food packaging is also gradually toward high-end, smart packaging began to enter people's vision, to say the smart packaging in which intelligent, most relating to food safety issues is, smart packaging can detect the quality of food, or authenticity, to protect the rights of consumers to the maximum extent, and product traceability function.

These special performance package just to meet the special requirements of goods and special environmental conditions, mainly refers to the use of the mechanical, electrical, electronic and chemical properties of packaging technology. Smart packaging market continues to expand at present, the domestic food safety situation is very grim, and has been to the extent imminent, so we urgent need to improve the intelligence from the packaging, to maximize the use of various means to ensure food safety. The intelligent packaging is of strong measures to ensure food safety, but also to be developed.

Smart packaging in developed countries has gained enough attention and development, while at home, smart packaging development and applications in various fields is still in its infancy. But he also pointed out that from another perspective, although our smart packaging applications are still lagging behind the developed countries, but our smart packaging market have broad margins wait mining.

To meet the delivery requirements and the need to reduce the cost of circulation process, the future of food packaging machinery requires the ability to perform high-speed production, while some products also require packaging machinery and production machinery of convergence, but also the use of continuous work or long work. Also, you must reduce the rejection rate and failure rate, so that normal productivity can be improved, the trend is to make packaging machinery further automation.

Usually only foreign temperature - time history identification (TTI), is the breeding of microorganisms in food packaging instruction marks (MGI), photochromic indicating identification, identification by the physical impact, leakage, microbial contamination identification, radio frequency tags (RFID) , DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is defined as smart packaging labels; and the modified atmosphere packaging, antimicrobial packaging, ethylene adsorption packaging, oxygen packaging, self-heating / self-cooling packaging, odor adsorption packaging, fragrance release packaging, moisture packaging is defined as a function of the packaging.

Source: China Food Machinery Network

Paper packaging advantages are obvious into mainstream food packaging

Data show: plastic used in food packaging plastics accounted for 1/4 of the total output, it can be said that the plastic used in food packaging appeared, there is waste generated. In supermarkets and shopping malls, many food packaging are made of plastic. Puffed food plastic inflatable packaging can be moisture, oxidation, protect flavor, blocking sunlight and prevent squeezed, but so much is packed in a tremendous waste of resources; and instant noodle packaging, plastic packaging is much more than paper bowl (or bucket) packaging, on the market or bottled bowl of instant noodles sales price is generally higher than with the quality of the sales price of 1/3 bags of instant noodles, but because of this convenience food packaging, especially when traveling, direct red after opening the hot water can be eaten, do not take other packing containers, so popular with consumers.

With the improvement of environmental protection requirements, consumers eliminate backward package is necessary. Improvement of plastic materials is imperative. Food market segments, you can try paper packaging paper, plastic waste and reduce environmental pollution, which is to the benefit of future generations.

Paper and packaging industry need to upgrade innovation

From the international market, to this year, global demand for corrugated boxes will be an annual growth rate of 3.4 percent up to 213 billion square meters. Moreover, where a large part of the growth will come from China, the global packaging is to usher in a "China era." However, the packaging industry is also facing many challenges, explore innovative models become inevitable. Reduce the environmental impact of packaging, increase the flexibility of the packaging process, improve packaging automation, improved ease of use packaging, improve packaging of integrated service package to multifunction and single polarization direction, these will become an important future direction of development corrugated packaging industry.

First, the transformation of innovation

The current companies are looking to transition through the packaging innovation, turn thinking, transfer method, transfer operations, turn the result. Maximizing process comprehensively promote the whole industry's packaging technology advances, leading the new trend of China's packaging, realize the value chain, the China Packaging a variety of ways to show to the world. One is looking for gaps in the industry, namely packaging waste recycling, reuse, such as the shared system tray; the second is to occupy the commanding heights of industry, namely the development and manufacture of low-carbon green packaging materials, such as foam stone paper; third is to Get industry commanding point, namely packaging services, such as integrated systems design, development, testing, certification, training and other services, to create high service platform packaging; Fourth, to promote innovation and technological progress packaging technology appliance industry. Transition way corrugated packaging industry are: from high emissions, high energy to low-emission, low-carbon transition; three functional packaging transition to international; packaging services to packaging integrated solutions transformation.

Second, management innovation

Packaging should focus on quality management and innovative ways to achieve customer satisfaction oriented. Study and implementation of advanced process control methods to manage the quality of the production process as soon as possible, and continuously improve product quality, enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. Customer demand for the center, the customer's needs into technical specifications for each stage of product development design, with the lowest cost, to achieve maximum customer satisfaction. A package quality problems usually lead to a number of quality cost factors. Quality cost analysis to do is to find out the relationship between quality and costs associated cost factors between the quality and packaging, and then determine the order and the specific response measures to eliminate quality problems.

Needless to say, the concept of reasonable package is to make the level of protection packaging, product affordability and logistics environment fit. In fact, most of the products are not required to ensure one hundred percent intact rate during transport, taking into account the relationship between performance and cost of protection is needed is a modest breakage rate. Moderate grasp this is a very difficult job. This job requires us to consider two questions: How technology to achieve, achieve cost is reasonable.

Third, the "green" innovation

The global economy and the industrial system is the rise in packaging revolution as a precursor of zero packaging, simplified packaging, green packaging conceived and implemented, green products and green packaging will become the new hot spot. The packaging industry should not only be concerned about the quality, performance and cost of packaging products, but also to be concerned about the environmental impact of packaging products and resource consumption. So, the only option for green packaging is the packaging industry sustainable development is only developing.

The rapid development of China's food industry, the paper packaging provides a broad space for development. The global appeal of the environment green packaging, paper packaging will usher in greater opportunities, green packaging will become the main trend of the future development of bakery products packaging industry, paper and wood, paper and plastic, paper and glass, paper and on behalf of the metal, it has become the consensus of sustainable development. Paper packaging has a more natural renewable raw materials and environmentally friendly recycling, full of development potential.

Source: China Packaging Machinery Network