2015 Chinese flexible packaging consumption reached 607 tons

Asia is the region's largest consumer, accounting for 40% of the global total, 2015 to 2020, flexible packaging consumption will average 6.6% growth rate. India and China are the fastest growing flexible packaging consumption, the two countries are expected to reach an annual growth rate of 9.4% and 6.9%.

It is understood that this year nearly 75 percent of flexible packaging products for food packaging, including meat, fish and poultry is the largest amount of food items, candy and baked goods followed. 2010 to 2015, the consumption of food flexible packaging with an average annual growth rate of 4.0 percent, beverage and drug consumption growth followed.

As consumers of convenience packaging and the pursuit of sustainable packaging in the past 10 years, flexible packaging market demand has been the fastest growing category. According to Smithers Peale Institute estimates, this year's global flexible packaging market demand of $ 210 billion, consumption was 26.2 million tons, market value of $ 91.7 billion.

The next five years, the flexible packaging market demand will average 3% rate increase to $ 248 billion, consumption will average 3.8 percent rate of increase to 31.7 million tons, the market value will be 4.4 percent annual growth rate increased to $ 114 billion.

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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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75 years of food packaging in the field of ten major technological breakthroughs

Development of all walks of life are inseparable from the progress of science and technology, the food industry is no exception. Food irradiation sterilization, fruits and vegetables modified atmosphere packaging, aseptic packaging, microwave heating equipment, mechanically deboned and other food processing sectors are technological development brought about by technological breakthroughs. Recently, the US Food Technology Association journal "Food Technology" (FoodTechnology) published an article, selected the top ten scientific and technological breakthroughs in the past 75 years in the field of food science and technology.

    Fruit and Vegetable Technology Atmosphere: Atmosphere technology is artificially controlled atmosphere storage library gas, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and ethylene composition ratio, humidity, temperature (frozen above the critical point) and pressure by inhibiting cellular respiration stored products amount to delay its metabolic processes, so that in the nearly dormant state, rather than cell death state, which can be maintained for a long time is substantially constant stored material texture, color, taste, nutrition, and thus achieve the effect of long-term preservation. Even after being stored product from start preservation Atmosphere environment, its cellular activities in the natural environment will remain normal metabolic rate, will not soon mature corruption.

    Aseptic packaging, storage and transportation technology: food aseptic packaging refers to after sterilization has access to commercial sterility of the product, enclosed in sterilized containers in a sterile environment perfusion, after filling containers remain sealed in order to prevent re-infection, in order to not add preservatives, not get a longer shelf life under refrigeration conditions by packing method.

    Food Irradiation: Also known as "food irradiation" or "ionizing radiation sterilization" means the food is exposed to ionizing radiation. This process can be eliminated, microbes, bacteria, viruses, or tiny insects on food. Other applications also inhibit sprouting, delay ripening, fruit juice production and promotion of promoting rehydration and the like. This principle is based on the energy of electromagnetic radiation sterilization destruction organisms DNA structure, so microbes can no longer continue to multiply, but also can cause the plant to stop growing differentiation of the germ. Initially, food irradiation technology is considered highly desirable to ensure food safety solutions. But the public's concerns, Section blind opposition, cost and failed marketing, making the potential of this technology can not be played. Even the great scientific breakthroughs can not remove all the obstacles.

    Modern food analysis techniques: the rapid development of electronic technology has spawned many new analytical instruments. With these advanced equipment, people can learn more about our food from the molecular level, the process for new food products and new packaging development paved the way.

    Microwave: Microwave is the use of microwave energy absorption of food in the microwave field leaving the self-heating of cooking utensils. Microwave microwave oven microwave generator of the microwave electric field in the microwave cavity to establish and to take certain measures to try to make this microwave field evenly distributed in the furnace chamber, the food placed in the microwave electric field, by the control center to control the cooking time and microwave electric field strength, for a variety of cooking process. In 1997, more than 90 percent of American households own a microwave. This show has become a priority to facilitate the needs of the modern family.

    Mechanically deboned chicken: chicken mechanical method to quickly get a lot of boneless chicken, so chicken can be made into a variety of shapes at low cost. Chicken McNuggets we know is based on the development of mechanically deboned chicken. In 1992, the United States, consumption of chicken over beef.

    Agricultural "green revolution": the 1960s some Western countries to high-yielding grain varieties and agricultural technology promotion to parts of Asia, Africa and South America, prompting a technical reform activities of food production. But it leads to a lot of use and soil fertilizer, pesticide degradation. The early 1990s, also found in its high-yielding grain low levels of minerals and vitamins, used as a food of vitamins and minerals often due to malnutrition and weakened the ability of people to resist and engage in manual labor of infectious diseases, and finally to a national labor productivity lower, sustained economic development is impaired. Thus it was suggested that the idea of ​​a second Green Revolution, the main aim of the use of international force, to foster both developing new high-yielding crop varieties and rich in vitamins and minerals.

    Application of plant proteins in food: vegetable protein is a protein source is extracted from plants in the nutrition and animal protein is similar, but easier to digest. The most abundant plant protein containing soy. But in the diet, plant protein and animal protein to match consumption. Many plant proteins can be used in place of animal protein, which provides a possible solution for solving many of the problems of agricultural sustainable development.

    Genetically Modified Food: The so-called genetically modified food, is through genetic engineering techniques will one or more exogenous gene transfer to a particular organism, and it effectively express the corresponding product (polypeptide or protein), this process called transgenic. To genetically modified organisms as raw materials for food processing is genetically modified food.

    The relationship between food and health: food and health are inextricably linked, with the continuous development of science, people have a lot of changes to the food health awareness. People come to realize the different effects of various nutrients on the human body, but also a better understanding of food into the human body and how it is digested and absorbed metabolism, human health associated with the future of food.

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3D printing bottle caps can monitor liquid freshness

            3D printing bottle "before drinking a shake."

Future consumers will not have to smell the smell of a method to detect whether the deterioration of the milk, the use of 3D printing bottle cap can monitor the freshness of the liquid.

Recently, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known universities in Taiwan have invented a "smart cap", this cap using 3D printing of electronic components, circuits and wireless sensor cap in the bottle of liquid from the bottle when the lid contact is detected whether milk or juice and other food spoilage. In addition, this cap can also detect whether the bottle of liquid bacteria, and real-time transmission of test results via radio. This means that consumers can use mobile apps before buying to check the freshness of food. Engineers have also found other uses for this technology, it can be used to monitor the pressure and concentration of the external device.

  Source: Food Partners Reuters