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.

Source: Internet