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.

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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

Food Packaging Evolution

Food packaging is a topic of ancient and modern, both ancient agrarian age, or science developed today, are the people throughout the research and exploration of the topic.

   As early as in ancient times, humans began to explore food packaging. Ancient human to make long-term storage or portable food, they put leaves or vines loaded food prepared in blue, or mount bamboo tube.

   Around 1000 BC, the Greeks with cask as food containers and packaging, and outputs the country, at a time when consumers use packaging made from sheep or pigskin placing food to carry.

   As early as 3,000 years ago in ancient China, people have started using ceramics as canned food containers to be enclosed. Which are described in detail in "Arts for the People", "the great cause of Supplements" and other books.

   Food packaging in the true sense, canned food stored from the beginning, which originated in the early 19th century. 1804, French Appert successfully use glass bottles to save food, since the emergence of the use of glass as a food packaging cork.

   1810, British Durand made successful use of food packaging made of tinplate, the so-called tin cans. Thereafter, more and more metallic material is used for the manufacture of food packaging.

   Early 20th century, all kinds of plastic, paper composite cans into production, so that food packaging containers made of rigid canister to extend soft cans, containers varieties more innovative, diverse and practical.

   Around 1960, Taiwan imported plastic films for food packaging, from the early single MSG bags to today combine plastic film, metal foil, paper and other permutations and combinations of high-performance multi-layer flexible packaging materials, has become a mainstream food packaging.

   In recent years, high barrier film material because of its barrier properties, light weight and other characteristics become an important trend in the development of food flexible packaging materials, EHA Xiamen long plastic barrier film developed, with its excellent barrier properties, high-temperature cooking, as well as the case of the same barrier properties thinner, become an excellent representative of this trend.

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Global liquid packaging in 2020 is expected to reach $ 1.38 billion

International Institute for Market Research Smithers Peale recently published "Global liquid packaging board market research report" shows that in 2014 the total global consumption of liquid packaging board market is not more than 3 million tons, the market scale reached 1.14 billion US dollars. Is expected to 2020, the market consumption will reach 3.6 million tons, according to the 2014 in terms of price, the market size of about $ 1.38 billion.

Global liquid packaging market is at a turning point, and soon will be shown in their short, the growth potential in the medium term. Data show that in 2010 demand for liquid packaging board declined slightly in 2011 --2014, the liquid packaging market size of the average annual growth rate of over 2 percent in 2015 Year - 2020, will be an annual growth rate of 3.5%.

"Report" shows that the expansion of the liquid packaging board market size is the main driving force for the development of the packaging industry, affecting the demand trends in the global packaging market. 2014, liquid packaging board consumption in developed regions accounted for the largest share of the global market's total liquid packaging consumption. The new growth in demand from the emerging economies of Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central and South America and so on. Nearly 75% of the liquid packaging board demand from the global dairy industry, 20% from the juice and diluted product, accounted for the remaining demand from continued growth in the liquid food and home care products. The survey found that the progress of the non-oil-based coating technology for the development of liquid packaging board market, there is a significant role in promoting.

"Report" also shows a stable high-capacity dairy packaging needs of the global market for liquid packaging board to maintain a growth trend. By 2020, total demand for liquid packaging board will increase by about 560,000 tons, of which 94% of dairy products and fruit juice packaging demand will account for the total market, the market size will increase by $ 220 million.

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The new color packaging bottle design

Today buy things at the same time, in addition to focus on product quality, it also increasingly valued commodity in the fine aspects of packaging, the bottle, how do attract the eyes of consumers, but also from the four new elements to the overall innovative design concept . Bottle design of four new elements:

Duplex extending tag if your product is transparent liquid, packed in a transparent bottle, then there is a way to give you more space for packaging design, and low cost.

The characteristics of the customer base design packaging Unilever AXE series of packaging products have a very clear position - the age of young people 18 to 35 years old between. So they focused on packaging design to attract these people. This series of bottles is thick molded black plastic container, rough appearance, very popular with these young people.

Design of small reusable drinks packaging market has matured, competition is fierce. If you think that there have been no novelty act, you may be wrong. Abroad, a tea company has launched a special packaging. It launched the product itself is very special - Add pomegranate juice tea. Packing even more noteworthy. Drinks are mounted in a common elongated glass bottles, the above is the cover and heat shrink labels, the label reads: Remove the label, leaving the bottle.

The packaging design is not just a fun packed children's patents, adults like interesting things. Follow the market trend, the adoption of new packaging design sophistication of the place, combined with a stylish minimalist design, in order to make the market more diversified bottles.

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Five factors driving the development of China's market of flexible packaging

For decades, China's packaging industry output value of more than quadrupled, increased from 2002 to more than 2500 yuan to 2013 of more than 14,000 yuan, after the United States became the world's second largest packaging country. Packaging industry maintained a momentum of stable development, has opened up a new situation in innovative adjustment. Recently, the global market research firm Smithers Piper Solutia Inc. recently released a survey report on the flexible packaging market in 2015 made a forecast of the five driving force.

Flexible packaging is an important part of the packaging industry, but also shoulder the task of technological innovation. Flexible packaging industry currently remains one of the fastest growing fields. According to Smithers Piper Connaught's latest statistics it shows that the consumption of flexible packaging global market rate of 3.5% per year to maintain growth over the next five years, and will reach $ 231 billion in 2018 (203.7 billion euros ʱ?? Technological innovation is the core areas to maintain high growth momentum.

Although flexible without their own shape, but with the continuous expansion of its range of applications, it has become a member of the family package, and in fact, its shape can change with product and change.

Expand the range of applications of flexible packaging is driven by the five main factors, these five factors also determine the future of flexible packaging in multiple markets growth. They are: bio-packaging, barrier films, bags, printing and design and intelligent packaging.

Biological packaging

In recent years, degradable plastics, research and development of biological materials, greatly promoted the development of the global packaging industry, has become quite popular packers choice. However, the speed of degradation in the soil of its existence slowly degradable plastics can not be recycled in a timely manner; can not be completely degraded, there will be stains on visual applications such drawbacks, its application prospects appeared limitations. Thus, the natural biological packing material with complete environmental advantages, the packaging material of choice for the future.

In the food industry, packaging bags is perhaps the greatest source of pollution. With the advancement of people's awareness of environmental protection, as well as science and technology, natural biological packing material with a completely environmentally friendly advantages, it has become one of the most developed packaging materials present potential. Future, natural biological packaging materials will continue to support improvement and innovation in science and technology, the immature gradually improve, or will occupy a considerable market share in the packaging industry.

Barrier films

All along, food safety is a common topic of concern to people, and to ensure the quality of food in terms of packaging materials play an extremely important role. For example, the use of high barrier films for food packaging, extend frozen food, such as meat, cheese, fish and milk and nuts and other non-frozen food shelf life.

According to market research report high barrier film industry, the global high barrier packaging film market is growing rapidly, in 2014 sales of about 1.76 million tons, with sales of $ 15.9 billion. The next 5 years, the global high barrier packaging film market will continue to maintain steady growth, the average annual compound growth rate will remain at 5.0%, 2019 sales expected to reach 2.24 million tons, sales of more than 20 billion US dollars.

High barrier packaging films mainly used in flexible packaging six major categories: plastic bags, stand-up pouches (including cooking and non-cooking type), lidding and forming the base, wrap film, blister packaging substrate. Among them, the plastic bag is the most important category, accounting for more than 50% of 2014 global sales of high barrier packaging film; lidding and forming the substrate ranked No. 2. The next 5 years, stand-up pouches will become the fastest growing category, lidding and forming the base of the growth rate will exceed the market average.

Bags

Bags for packaging various articles refers bag for easy transport of goods in the production and distribution process, easy to store. With economic development and people's living standards improve, the demand for commodities is increasing bags, merchandise bags claim to more and more use of the bags value requirements are also increased. The current value of the rapid growth of the packaging industry, highlighting the packaging industry great prospects for development.

China is the world's largest fruit and vegetable production and marketing of a large country, but there are about 30% of the fruit in the storage, transportation and sales process loss, improper packaging which is an important reason, in a highly competitive market conditions, the role of packaging becomes more and more important. As well as to expand the production scale of bags in the market rapidly expanding China and other developing countries, the rising market demand presents complementary trend. The report shows that by 2018, the Asia-Pacific region is expected income is the highest. Among them, food packaging (especially beverage packaging) and pharmaceutical packaging will be the two main growth poles.

Today bags no longer a simple product, businesses and consumers on the quality of bag, material, quality and style are increasing. In North America and Western Europe plastic bag usage is already high, change the product mix will continue to support the continued growth in demand in these regions bags.

Printing and Design

Packaging & Printing are inseparable, between the two are interdependent relationship, a good package in addition to printing also requires careful design, the design is the soul of packaging, packaging design success of a product or not, directly targeted product quality , unique packaging design. Among the package, you can highlight how many brands from the company's products and brand, which is unique from the packaging design. The unique design, you can use a unique color, different from other products with eye-catching colors and products meet; on the packaging of shape, and now many are based on common packaging design packaging design, packaging styles lack of innovation We can not attract consumers.

Packaging designed to look like just the packaging of products, in fact, it also shows the problem of corporate culture, brand image aspects. Packaging of quality in the eyes of consumers, many times, reflects the quality of the product, the packaging also reflects the brand's creative ideas. Product packaging is actually pretty big role, not only to show the brand image or product sales booster. Enterprises should pay attention to product packaging design, to create a company with a culture, in line with the brand image, but with distinct characteristics of the packaging.

Intelligent Packaging

The so-called smart packaging, that is, in the conventional packaging technology, adding more relevant information and can use the advanced smart phones, the Internet, things to be read, so that the package has more information capacity; enable consumers You can learn more information about the product when purchasing through product packaging, so as to achieve the purpose of further facilitate the consumers to buy.

For example, people in the supermarket to buy small packages of food, the front can be displayed on the packaging of food names, the main ingredients, date of manufacture, shelf life, etc. must be public information. But the use of smart packaging, since it is possible to double the capacity to provide information, producers can produce information on the main raw material, food processing information, food use precautions and friendship reminders are stored in an intelligent manner on the packaging or on the Internet and read by smartphones.

Smart packaging is a broad definition, which includes a variety of internal information about this product, more than only on a small package foods for example. Because of smart packaging in the packaging of information capacity is multiplied expansion, the consumer is concerned, to obtain a more transparent product information and increase greater selection of room; the producer is concerned, is undoubtedly smart packaging provides a Consumer high-capacity platform to meet directly. Meanwhile, smart packaging in commodity security technology will also receive a qualitative breakthrough. The rapid development of the Internet of Things and logistics industry, smart packaging will flourish.

to sum up:

Faced with growing competitive pressures, flexible packaging production enterprises must improve technology, processes and designed to ensure that consumers are able to distinguish their products on the shelf. According to Smithers Peale Institute survey, printing and packaging companies need to continue investment in new printing technologies to provide richer colors and excellent after printing process, will better enhance their own competitiveness. In the large market environment, China will continue to enhance and liberate themselves in the printing industry, this road, for the packaging industry has opened wider world.

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Plastic food packaging recycling is not difficult

Sometimes, sustainable plastic food bags and environment-friendly packaging materials not relations, but with how we handle the product concerned. For example, the bottled water industry has been a lot of criticism, when people drink water that perfectly clean and sealed, resulting in a lot of unnecessary waste bottle. However, some communities and universities are working hard, through the establishment of refills site, reduce waste of plastic water bottles. People no longer need to buy bottles from the vending machines, you can take the empty bottles, filled with water free. This is a good start, but part of the problem of plastic food bags.

Typically, disposable packaging in retail stores now is the most common. From water bottles to drink to personal care products, cosmetics and cleaning products are disposable packaging, and then it is discarded. We hope that some of the package will be re-used, although we also know that recovery is a challenge for consumers. But repopulate the site if we take this idea and apply it to other liquid products, there will be how kind of consequences?

In the past, beverage companies and other liquid products manufacturers the use of glass packaging, may be re-used in the earliest forms of packaging. The reason is that you have to put your empty milk bottles on the door, the milkman will be recovered tomorrow morning! Glass is very durable, easy to clean, and constantly refilled, and when the time is up, it can be recycled. Repopulate the site without lower prices or lower the quality of liquid products, we can significantly reduce packaging waste, few consumers rarely go to those retail stores to repopulate the site. Bulk purchase is a viable option, it is necessary to limit the package, to provide consumers with greater value.

Barrier plastic food bag recycling is almost non-existent, because consumers need to do is fill a box, and then returned to the box. There are many different types of boxes to choose from, there are some specific waste streams, others do not need to waste classification acceptable. When re-using or filling is not possible, recycling is the best method for processing waste streams.

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Change a small bag cutting angle, actually can save so much!

With the diversification of flexible packaging technology and market demand, shaped bags appear more and more in our lives. The traditional process for forming shaped bag bag making machine is to use the system out in the preliminary model shaped bags, and then treated with the punch line punched out shape profiled the necessary follow-up and then trimmed to complete the production of shaped bags, required in this manner specifically one person punching and punching a time only a few bags, punching bags for complex shapes greater inefficiency, if larger orders more punch and manpower required to accomplish large quantities, thus wasting a lot of manpower and material resources.

   Shaped bags for many companies already make use of a bag making machine auxiliary equipment - cutting machine, cutting machine make full use of light, electricity, gas and other automation facilities, comes PLC signals well with bag-making machine Online, to achieve synchronization with the bag machine cutting, well shaped bag making to ensure the accuracy of the line without the need for subsequent processing, and the bag edges smooth curves naturally, and can realize automatic crimping and out of the bag, which greatly improved the shaped bag making efficiency, effectively prevent the line blanking human wave tactics.

   Currently, the die-cutting machine flat cutter prone problem is not durable, manufacturers have put forward innovative solutions round roll cutter, cutter up and down to avoid damage to the punching of the cutter, using a round cutter can effectively roll reduce friction between the cutter and the bag, extend cutter life, it is expected to realize a round roll cutter knife completed more than one million bags of punching, knife and reduce the loss of full production, the maximum yield on the energy savings.

   In addition, to avoid the traditional square-shaped angular plastic bags harm the human body, more and more customers require chamfer bags, which many companies use the latter in packaging on bag machine forming line use Notching machine cut corner treatment, although the line can achieve every corner cut dozens punching bags, but inevitably require human and beveling equipment, especially orders for more business, even Cutaway need dozens and dozens of people were cut angle, but this number does not match with the current trend of saving labor costs. Currently, the most automatic bag making machine comes with dual cutter features, in fact, as long as the flexible packaging business increased slightly change the layout a little flash can be implemented on a punching bag machine use pneumatic chamfer machine bags, then take advantage of dual function bag making machine cutter perfect bag Cutaway detail to achieve perfection Cutaway online, without affecting the speed bag, to achieve human, material savings.

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2015 five major driving force for the development of the flexible packaging market

Expand the range of applications of flexible packaging is made up of five main factors driving of these five factors also determine the future of flexible packaging in multiple markets growth. They are: bio-packaging, barrier films, bags, printing and design, and smart packaging.

       Flexible packaging is an important part of the packaging industry, but also shoulder the task of technological innovation. Flexible packaging industry currently remains one of the fastest growing fields. Market research firm Smithers Piper Solutia Inc. recently released a survey report on the flexible packaging market in 2015 made a prediction of the five driving forces.

      According to Smithers Piper Connaught's latest statistics it shows that the consumption of flexible packaging global market rate of 3.5% per year to maintain growth over the next five years, and will reach $ 231 billion in 2018 (203.7 billion euros ). Technological innovation is to maintain rapid growth in the field of core power.

Although flexible without their own shape, but with the continuous expansion of its range of applications, it has become a member of the family package, and in fact, its shape can change with product and change.

Source: Internet

Paper packaging of food and fresh fruits and vegetables most consumers?

An international survey covering seven EU countries show that when consumers buy food and fresh fruit and vegetable products, using paper packaging products more likely to be consumer-emption.

This is named YouGov (in China called geographical concept) survey agency received 7,086 copies of the consumer questionnaire, 4,857 people said that those who put on the shelf, and stored in the containers of food and fresh fruit and vegetable display more likely to stimulate their desire to buy.

Questionnaire also popularity of plastic containers and paper containers were investigated: The results showed that among 4857 people, 68% of consumers prefer paper packaging, but more like 32 per cent of plastic packaging.

These consumers were also asked: If the fresh food in terms of price and quality are the same, but are in paper packaging and plastic packaging, they are more willing to choose which one? Among the people surveyed, 41% said they do not care what the total merchandise use of packaging materials, some people also said they do not understand packaging. But the remaining 59% of the respondents, 85% said they are more willing to buy paper packaging goods.

The investigation report is in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain carried out. This result is consistent with the results of the 2014 British survey agency held similar surveys. Britain's share of the survey, there are 1,114 when consumers were asked what kind of packaging material may affect their buying decisions, 93% of consumers chose paper packaging.

Ms. Angelika Christ FEFCO president believe that this report is further evidence of corrugated packaging is well positioned to meet European consumers for ease of use, eye-catching, new requirements for sustainable packaging.

She said: corrugated paper packaging in Europe is still the most popular form of packaging. Survey results again demonstrated that when fresh fruits and vegetables are dressed in paper and plastic containers and placed on the shelf, consumers' appetite for buying paper packaging goods is far higher than plastic packaging.

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