Green Packaging Promotes Paper Industry to Develop Paper Packaging Age
With the development of environmental awareness, packaging industry is developing towards green environmental protection. This trend is bound to lead to the development of greener packaging forms, such as paper packaging. The arrival of the paper packaging era has brought business opportunities for the paper industry, which is suffering from overcapacity.
Since this year, there has been a new situation in the paper industry that has never happened in 30 years. From January to October, the output of machine-made paper and cardboard increased by 0.11% over the same period last year, with a negative monthly growth from May to September. In October, the output of uncoated printed paper increased by - 9.49% compared with the same period last year, and newsprint increased by - 11.81%. This is the main manifestation of overcapacity after rapid development. In such an external environment, the future of the paper industry is uncertain. The popularity of paper packaging has brought a glimmer of vitality to the paper industry.
Green packaging can also be called pollution-free packaging and Friends of the Environment packaging. It refers to the packaging that is harmless to the ecological environment and human health, can be reused and regenerated, and conforms to sustainable development. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Degradable are internationally recognized 3R and 1D principles for the development of green packaging.
The average annual consumption of packaging materials in foreign countries is over 100 kg, 50 kg in the United States, 200 kg in Japan, 90 kg in Germany, 80 kg in CIS and 30 kg in China. Compared with China, the average annual consumption of packaging materials in China is relatively low, but the population of China is more than 1.3 billion, so the annual consumption of packaging materials is quite large. Therefore, green environmental protection has become the inevitable development direction of packaging industry.
Paper is undoubtedly one of the most environmentally friendly packaging materials. Paper-making raw materials mainly come from natural plant fibers, which can be quickly decomposed by nature without polluting the environment, and can also be recycled and re-papermaking, with mature technology. Paper materials are also used for pulp casting parts, composite materials, building materials and other purposes. Besides the advantages of light weight, low price and shock proof, pulp moulded products have good air permeability, which is conducive to the freshness preservation of fresh articles. In the international circulation of commodities, pulp moulded products are widely used in the turnover packaging of fragile, fragile and extruded articles such as eggs, fruits and glass products.
The world is calling for green packaging and cherishing the earth. Paper technology is bound to be widely used in packaging industry. Green packaging will become the trend of packaging industry in the future. Paper instead of wood, paper instead of plastic, paper instead of glass, paper instead of metal, has become the consensus of sustainable development.
Paper packaging based on paper and cardboard has the advantages of low cost, resource saving, easy mechanical processing, environmental protection, pollution-free, easy recovery and recycling. Whether it is used for transport packaging cartons, or for the sale of product packaging cartons, paper bags, are the first choice of paper materials. With the development of papermaking technology and the enhancement of environmental protection consciousness, the traditional single paper material is developing towards the direction of compound diversification. Composite paper, functional paper and non-polluting vegetable fiber paper have been continuously developed. The function and applicability of paper materials are not the same as before, and are gradually replacing the packaging of other materials.
At the same time, in recent years, food packaging began to move towards the era of paper packaging. The rapid development of China's food industry has provided a broad space for the development of paper packaging. For food packaging, paper selection includes water absorption, water proofing, heat preservation, solar energy conversion, fruit residue paper, soybean residue paper, carrot paper, long-lasting mildew proof paper, preservative paper, pop top paper, propylene synthetic paper, foamed paper, self-adhesive wrapping paper, and rigid light wrapping paper. It is expected that circular economy will become the main mode of packaging industry development in the future, recycling and utilization of waste packaging resources will realize industrialization, green packaging materials will be vigorously developed and developed, and packaging infrastructure industry will also accelerate development.
Under the trend of homogenization of all kinds of commodities, packaging has become the third absolute selling factor and an important factor to establish brand image after the quality of commodities and after-sales service. Packaging from the original function of commodity protection and convenient use, to increase the value of commodities, build brand, promote the development of sales. Packaging design has become an important part of commodity marketing plan. Paper packaging, as the first of the four major packaging, with the continuous development of paper materials and processing technology, forms are becoming more diverse and creative.
Appropriate and practical structure and novel appearance have become important factors for businesses to enhance product and brand market competition. Excellent paper packaging will break through the limitations of paper packaging in the past, give full play to the advantages of good physical properties and printing applicability of paper materials, fully display the characteristics of paper packaging, such as capacity, protection, convenience, display, aesthetics, economic applicability, increase the added value of products and improve sales. Ability.
According to reports, the global green packaging market is worth nearly 120 billion US dollars this year, and it is expected to reach 178 billion US dollars by 2018. There is no doubt that China has become the largest packaging market in Asia. It is expected that China's packaging market will grow at an annual rate of 9.8% from 2011 to 2016, which will be much faster than that of other Asian countries. Obviously, China's packaging industry began to enter the stage of industrial upgrading.
