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2010, China will adhere to the expansion of domestic demand, especially consumer demand, continue to encourage home appliances, automobiles, agricultural machinery, preferential policies for energy-saving products, plastic raw materials, demand will continue to grow. The main varieties of plastic raw material of polyethylene, for example, consumption in 2010 will reach 16.37 million tons.

While the cost impact of the Middle East will continue, China – ASEAN Free Trade Area of the implementation of zero tariff and the domestic release of this new capacity concentrated three “mountains” will be increases in the prices of plastic raw materials resistance, but by the long-term crude oil prices and the economy continues along the healthy, stable development of the support rail, plastic raw material market will maintain an upward trend.

Impact is still low-cost Middle East

As the domestic demand of plastic raw materials higher, while the domestic product variety and quality of plastic raw materials can not participate in international competition, export volume is small, so our country is a net importer of plastic raw materials. Middle East 2010 will be an influx of plastic raw materials in China is expected that this will impact the domestic industry of plastic raw materials.

China Engineering Plastics Association statistics show that the second half of 2008 to 2009 in the first half, despite the financial crisis, China’s plastics processing industry on the actual demand for raw materials continues to increase by 20%. In sharp contrast, China’s actual production of plastic raw materials manufacturers have reduced by 20% year on year. Chinese plastics market has been incremental imports of basic digestion. 2009 surge in imports of plastic raw materials, only the first three quarters of the imported 21.977 million tons, an increase of 20.8%. As long as the situation of China’s large imports of the same, the international market of plastic raw material weakness appears to be difficult.

Increase in imports of plastic raw materials for various reasons, one of the major foreign dumping. With the use of low-cost Middle East have in-place crude oil production of petrochemical products, the second half of 2009, the global petrochemical industry, including our products are subject to the impact from the Middle East. With raw material of the great advantages of low-cost competition, the rapid expansion of the Middle East polyethylene capacity by 2010 will reach 26 million tons, while its domestic consumption accounted for only 30% to 40%, most of the export, the main export target country is China. Middle East polyethylene price USD 150 per tonne lower than the country around, is the company that can resist it. Compared with polyethylene, polypropylene and PVC in the Middle East the cost advantage is not very obvious, but capacity will also have a certain growth.

China – ASEAN to implement zero tariff

Since January 1 this year, China and ASEAN products will be the implementation of a series of 10 state-owned trade “zero tariff”, including polyethylene, polypropylene. China’s plastic products export tariffs will be reduced simultaneously, which is bound to downstream enterprises to increase in export orders. It is learned that there are already many companies started early beachhead market, trading significantly active, which also made a number of weak market demand of plastic raw materials situation improved.

But with lower import costs, the domestic polyethylene, polypropylene market will also face competition from imported materials and the impact of the ASEAN countries, the domestic raw material market pressure, imported materials and the escalation of conflict between domestic materials. China – ASEAN Free Trade Area into operation on the domestic industry of plastic raw materials in the long run, will speed up industrial restructuring and optimization, to improve domestic competitiveness of their products; from short-term, will be produced on the domestic market price rise resistance, or even cause the market price down significantly.

Concentration of the release of the domestic expansion of production capacity

At the same time, domestic large-scale production of plastic raw material intensive projects are also put into operation. Last year, Fujian Petrochemical Company with 40 million tons annually of polyethylene, polypropylene, Tianjin ethylene annual output of 30 tons of linear low density polyethylene unit, annual output of 300,000 tons Dushanzi high-density polyethylene, 600,000 tons of linear low density polyethylene and other devices have been put into operation, will be put into operation in 2010 with the Zhenhai Refinery and other projects, two years of China’s petrochemical industry will add production capacity of 5.6 million tons of plastic raw materials, an increase of up to 38%.

Coal chemical industry of plastic raw materials is also gradually. According to the current under construction and approved the construction of coal chemical project progress before the end of 2010 after another 3-4 sets of coal chemical project in operation, additional annual production capacity of 300,000 tons of polyethylene, polypropylene, 1.3 million tons. With rising oil prices, coal-olefins and polymers have certain cost advantages, a certain pressure on the market.

With the expected economic recovery and rising demand, the domestic is now in the cut-off or semi-shutdown state of plastic raw material production facilities will resume production, or increase capacity utilization. With the rapid expansion of production capacity, production is growing, the influx of imported materials, plastic raw material market will inevitably shift from the seller’s buyer’s market, the intensity of competition can imagine.

In summary, despite the growth in domestic demand, but the influx of imports and domestic production release will form a concentrated surge of resources, the plastic raw material industry in 2010 gross margin for optimism. On the other hand, crude oil, ethylene market price of plastic raw materials play an important role. U.S. and world economy based on the expected continued improvement, the U.S. Energy Information Administration that global oil consumption will make economic recovery began to rebound, and the monthly average price of crude oil this year, raised to 81 U.S. dollars a barrel. Ethylene is bound to bring oil prices lift, plastic raw materials prices will rise out of the market. Although short term prices up space is limited, but the long term, with crude oil, the gradual uplift of the cost of ethylene, polyethylene and other plastic materials will not be renewed strength in the distant days of 2010, the overall upward trend seems to remain. To this end, plastic raw material industry to higher value-added, high-quality products that meet the market demand advantage.

Those oversized, rigid ‘clamshell’ packages may help to secure items for shipping and cut down on shoplifting, but they can be a nightmare for consumers. There’s even a term for the frustration they inspire: wrap rage. In 2004, over 6,000 Americans went to the emergency room with injuries resulting from opening difficult packaging! Here’s a rundown on how to preserve your hands and sanity when confronting a blister pack that has no apparent means of entry.

Perforation Method

Check the back of the package for an opening before you proceed. It’s still pretty rare, but some manufacturers – in response to consumer complaints – are including slits, perforations, and other starting points for opening their clamshell packages on the back. Also look around the sides to see if there are any pop-together tabs that could simply pull apart.

Imperial College London, the food marketing expert David Hughes recently by the Australian Packaging Council (Packaging Council of Australia) will be the packaging of the seminar organized by the packaging industry is facing the biggest challenge is too concerned about the cost savings, without attention to our clients value.

It DavidHughes introduction, this phenomenon is mainly due to packaging and packaging manufacturers customers most commercial relations rather than a partnership, so product development is often will give up simply as a lower packaging costs opportunities.

Point for Hughes, Gavin Williams, CEO of the Australian packaging members also expressed their own customers for the packaging and packaging business relationship issues.

Williams said: “Hughes said business professor is a commercial relationship with customers rather than the issue of partnership is right in this situation depends on packaging manufacturers to change, they not only have to actively track sales leads, but also passionate way to make friends with customers. ”

“Packaging companies should make efforts to change the packaging as the ordinary people to the idea of consumer goods, it is actually a value for our clients products and services.”

Hughes said in his speech, sustainable packaging is now a trend to reduce the carbon footprint means for enterprises to save money. He said: “This is a fact that an increasing number of shareholders would be interested in environmental issues, so packaging companies must go in front.”

Looking ahead, Hughes that the packaging companies will face a food label, the more stringent recovery requirements and carbon footprint and water footprint and other issues challenges. Private labeling and packaging standards will continue to improve, the market for simple and easy to read the label packaging demand will increase.

People on the food industry products, particularly in the health food become increasingly demanding, manufacturers Chuliao research and development in the food industry, not less fill people in need and in many Gongneng Shang, manufacturers of clamshell packaging by modern be realized, Mibu product Zi Shen’s defects, reduce costs and enhance the core competitiveness of the products. Here are some “advanced” packaging, is gradually changing products, changing our lives.

Paper-based composite packaging

This is a composite of a flexible, mainly foil type liner bag, embedded type, liquid type, etc.. Paper-based composite package to solve the main problem is the seepage problem, because the oil molecules small reason. Packed like cooking oil in Japan developed a composite box, very successful. Composite paper structure PE / paper / PE / AL / PET / PE, paper-layer composite substrate made by aluminum 6. As the composite layer with aluminum foil, its performance is better than glass bottles and plastic bottles, is safe and portable, and beautifully printed, increase the added value and competitiveness of goods.

New Compound “paper”

Super-strength composite paper has been developed abroad. The paper white as snow, thin as cicada’s wings, soft like satin, is still intact after repeated folding, also known as soft glass, and low prices. This kind of “paper” is basalt and Latin America in 2000 ℃ high temperature into the fiber, impregnated with phenolic resin and the infiltration of powder made of clay films. Mainly due to rock material, so long-term storage will not become brittle, moldy, moth-eaten, and can dyer & printer color, use wider. In addition, air-laid paper, sterilization paper, deodorant, paper, anti-charged paper, paper, anti-electromagnetic interference, high-absorbing paper (ie stealth packaging materials) and so on.

Deodorant packaging

Since the development of supermarkets and fast food, the rise in recent years abroad and a popular new concept of HMR, HMR market soon. Packaging materials in order to prevent the smell (that smell and odor) effects developed deodorizing packaging. Deodorant now has more than 40 kinds of packaging materials, mainly consists of three types:

A generic type of chemical odor that can remove nitrogen and sulfur compounds and the Department of compounds plus ammonia, dimethylamine, trimethylamine, hydrogen sulfide and other odor or smell.

Class B is a physical type, mainly used to remove hydrogen sulfide, carboxylic acid, and the like odor or smell, which is characterized by high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide odor effect is good.

C-like material is mixed odor type. Mainly made of activated carbon deodorant, deodorant ability of low concentrations of these materials good characteristics.

Deodorant packaging films for food packaging can also play a deodorizing effect of preservation. General deodorant packaging used that each have a special smell or odor of food, and agricultural products, aquatic products packaging.

Antimicrobial packaging

Microorganisms food corruption, so antimicrobial packaging has become a hot topic. To this end, Japan has added a new type of packaging materials inorganic antibacterial agent, successfully developed a series of antimicrobial packaging material, it has antibacterial effects various pathogens. The main features of the packaging materials are as follows: anti-bacterial effects of long duration; as antibacterial agents are gas-based, so the contents of the package without any adverse effects; stability.

In the packaging process, the thermal stability of high concentration and stability, no adverse effects on the working environment. Antimicrobial packaging materials mainly sheet, absorbent sheets, packaging film, anti-bacterial and other types of packaging. Sheet is to mixing to polyolefins and other antimicrobial agents.

Resin from repression, absorbing sheet is used as base material made of super absorbent polymers, often with film type and coating type. Such as non-woven / paper / mixed with antibacterial agents absorbent resin / paper / cloth.

Is now the widely used antimicrobial packaging film, add in the polyolefin film made of antibacterial agents on the most common microorganisms such as E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, bean Phytophthora, wearing hold bacillus, Aspergillus niger, etc. have antibacterial effects.

High barrier packaging

As we all know, aluminum packaging materials superior performance, but opaque, for the successful development of a class of barrier experts new material. It is a good barrier, and other performance equal to or better than the plastic composite material. This is called GT composite packaging material, is deposited on the surface of a plastic film thickness 10 ~ 100um inorganic (eg nano-silica or titanium oxide) films made. Such nano-coatings, stable performance, even after high-temperature sterilization, its gas barrier, moisture, transparency is still as ever.

In recent years, the United States developed thermal efficiency liquid crystal polymer film (TLCP), from a special dense fibrous polymer composed of long chains, good strength and toughness. 2um thick liquid crystal polymer gas barrier properties of EVOH is very thick and 25um, but the price is much lower than the latter.

Cold seal packaging

Packaging machinery to be simple and convenient, energy saving, increased speed and efficiency to meet the needs of modern high-volume packaging, the use of low-temperature sealing packaging material is a necessary condition for low temperature sealed packaging. The so-called low-temperature packaging materials, that is, the film coated with a layer of natural rubber as the main component of cold seal coating and does not require heat-sealing the packaging material can be. It has a series of characteristics: First, the contents on the packaging does not produce heat-affected, and therefore particularly suitable for the packaging of tired of hot items; second is difficult to seal the substrate can be used; Third, simplify packaging machinery, reduce costs, save energy ; Fourth, to achieve high-speed packaging; 5 is a good cold seal, even under the seal strength at -20 ℃ will not decrease.

Of the 20th century the development of synthetic resin material and industrialization, made of plastic packaging material is given an unprecedented development, the same time, plastic food packaging materials has become the most important packaging material.
Plastic food packaging has the following characteristics:
1. Applied very widely, from fresh food to which means that the cooked food, from cereals to meat, from a single package to transport packaging, from solid food to liquid food, covering the entire food production, processing and sales chain, has become a food part of industry itself.
2. Packaged in various forms, with tray type, container type, tube type, bag type, single-layer plastic film, multilayer film class and so on.
3. Use of plastic packaging when conditions vary, there is cold, but also microwave heating, high temperature cooking, etc..
4. Direct contact with food within the packaging as the main packaging, and packing the contents has a very diverse species composition.
5. Packaging plastic varieties, products of chemical composition is extremely complex.
The face of such deep integration with the food industry plastic packaging, its potential health and safety risks can not be ignored, is the current food safety control system we are an important part.
The following plastic packaging materials to major potential security risk to do a brief analysis:
The first type of plastic container packaging. Common plastic containers for food packaging mainly polyethylene, polypropylene, polyester, etc., packing container security risk is mainly of plastic processing additives, such as plasticizers, antioxidants, functional additives, such as anti-static agent and coloring agents. These processing aids in the migration to the food, plastic production in the residual monomer and catalyst to move food, plastics processing, thermal decomposition, the product of the aging of the migration to food. These migratory movements of food safety hazards.
The second type is single-layer plastic film-like material. Common single plastic food packaging film is polyethylene, polypropylene, cellophane, the security risk is similar to packaging containers.
The third type of plastic composite packaging materials. As the colorful composite packaging materials and various forms of functional and has become the main form of packaging food packaging. The composite materials are widely used in packaging materials, process complexity, the potential safety problems are most difficult to control the most.
Four problems:
First, the plastic material itself residual monomers, additives and processing a variety of low molecular weight substances produced migration.
Second, bring the solvent printing plastic residues, especially ketones, benzene solvent, ink and various additives in heavy metal.
Third, the composite adhesive, AC agent into the solvent residue, especially polyurethane adhesives Tour divorce NCO content and aromatic isocyanate polyurethane adhesives in the aromatic esters of isocyanate reacting with water, the aromatic primary amine (PAA) problem . Water or alcohol-soluble polyurethane production of dispersing agent, blocking agent, protective agent problem.
Fourth, the bag, squeezing complex processes smoothness powder.
These packaging materials in contact with food during the great migration to food in food safety.
In addition to the packaging material itself and the processing of security risks arising from products in the transportation, storage, use also may be secondary pollution, some food manufacturers and non-food packaging materials generated by the management of mixed-production also brings the corresponding holes risk.
At present our country’s plastic packaging for food did not achieve effective control, resulting in a significant security risk.
Therefore, we must be in plastic food packaging materials monitoring system to ensure product safety. I recommend: First, to establish material security database, whereby legislation, the provisions of which can be used in food packaging materials, chemical additives which can be used for food packaging materials, which materials can be used for direct contact food packaging, migration to the maximum food is. Furthermore, we should develop the appropriate test method standards. Third, monitoring the whole process of food packaging materials, raw materials, production processes, finished products, storage and use. Should at least implement retrospective control system to achieve effective control of the safety of plastic food packaging.

1, the importance of packaging
First, the product is the carrier of enterprises of various interests, but the specific form of packaging which is the value to the customer. Second, the packaging is the most contact with representatives of businesses and consumers the lowest cost of a medium that conveys the brand and product value. When customers purchase products will first determine the value of products through packaging, and judgments of value not only from the aesthetic point of view, but passing through the packaging or lead him to meet the potential demand for information to achieve. Packaging can play a role in both of these need our attention packaging design, to create new value for us. We also need new packaging design and methods to achieve this end, here is my theory and reality from the perspective of “how the product packaging design to create value.

2, the value of packaging design and value creation approach
The value of products mainly consists of two parts: one is the product value that the product quality, use this value only after the consumer can perceive; the other part is conveyed through the package design and product selling points out the value of the brand, it is used Graphics implied by consumer psychology to guide the implementation. Therefore, a good package design can not only the most effective dissemination of product information, to better promote the product of the psychological value of the customer to purchase a product, not only make him understand the real value, but also through packaging design, the message implied by the He can get the interests of many non-product

1, terrible fire

For many years, people think that PVC is the harmony of nature, a man-made note that it is destroying the environment is not conducive to eco-development. Dusseldorf airport in 1996, a sensation, so that 17 people were killed in the fire, a number of errors of public opinion has helped people to PVC as the main culprit of this fire, it will increase the people’s misunderstanding of PVC .

2, the beautiful appearance

The surface and shape of the goods will leave a first impression. Advertising psychologists believe that this first impression of the sale of the product plays a decisive role. In this sense, layer, PVC film is very promising market prospects. In fact, with the development of the times, PVC is also its good performance, simple process, as well as many other advantages of gradually won the hearts and minds of the people has been more and more people accepted and recognized in the United States and Europe is a PVC the darling of the construction industry, PVC in people’s daily life everywhere. PVC can be expressed in not only the color of nature, but also can show the color of people’s fantasy. In Germany, 40% of the furniture is to use PVC to make the surface of the material, see the natural color and luster, the color gorgeous, rich and varied, design beautiful, elegant style and high-end desk, shelves, sofas, kitchen cabinet, and no one will take them and the streets are devastated “white trash” to associate together, would not think it is PVC blister film give them such a beautiful coat.

3, the structure of perfect

So what is it PVC in the end? PVC, full name Polyvinylchlorid, the main ingredients of PVC, while adding other ingredients to enhance its heat resistance, toughness, ductility and so on. This surface film of the top are painted in the middle of the main component is PVC, the bottom is coated adhesive back. It is loved the world today, is quite popular and also widely used as a synthetic material. Its global use of synthetic materials in a variety of the second highest. According to statistics, only one year in 1995, non-PVC production capacity in Europe, there are about 5 million tons, while its consumption was 5.3 million tons. In Germany, PVC production and consumption of an average of 1.4 million tons. PVC is the growth rate of 4% in the world within the scope and application. In recent years, the growth of PVC in Southeast Asia is particularly significant on several occasions, thanks to the Southeast Asian countries have carried out the urgent needs of infrastructure construction. Before you can produce three-dimensional surface film of the material, PVC is the most suitable material.

PVC can be divided into soft PVC and rigid PVC. Hard PVC market in which about 2 / 3, soft PVC and 1 / 3. Soft PVC are generally used for flooring, ceilings, and the surface of leather, but because of soft PVC containing softener (which is soft PVC and rigid PVC distinction), easy to become brittle and difficult to preserve, so its use has been limited. Hard PVC free softener, so flexibility is good, easy molding, easy crisp, non-toxic pollution, save a long time, so the development has great application value. The following are referred to as PVC. PVC is essentially a vacuum blister film for packaging various types of panel surface, it is also known as decorative films, with a film applied to building materials, packaging, pharmaceutical and many other industries. Building materials industry, which accounts for the largest proportion, 60%, followed by the packaging industry, there are a number of other small-scale applications industry.

4, rigorous process

The reason can be widely used in PVC building material industry, there are two very important reasons:

First, the unique properties of PVC (rain, fire-resistant, anti-static, easy to shape), the second is a PVC low-input high-yield characteristics. So, PVC is able to do with these two major distinctions? Let us find the answers from their manufacturing process up bar.

PVC production process is not complicated, general production line generally rolling machines, printing presses, coating machines and cutting machines back composed mainly through direct-acting rolling machine mixing, roller-rotation and high-temperature rolling to produce thick of 0.3 mm to 0.7mm film, the production at the same time and through the printing press in the membrane color printed on the front, through the back coating machine in the membrane attached to the back back coating layer. Must not underestimate this layer back coating, which is the performance of PVC membrane is an important guarantee of quality. Back painted by special material composition, is a high-energy pro-and liquid, it is precisely because this layer back coating, PVC film can be tightly and medium density board or other boards together, decades, or even fifteen years not open plastic. Ordinary paste mask can not be solved at the biggest problem is the issue of membrane shedding. As the entire production process is at a high temperature (rolling machines, the temperature reaches 220 degrees) carried out, which makes PVC film with high resistance to light and fire resistance to ensure high-quality PVC film. Of course, this very demanding on the production machine, usually a set of production line equipment cost about three thousand nine one million marks, equivalent to approximately RMB 160 million yuan. On the other hand, PVC film production process is quite simple, machine production is also big, so a comprehensive look, PVC is actually a low-input, high-volume products.

5, exceptional performance

PVC film with ordinary paste film, what different? Ordinary paste film is at room temperature, the direct use of glue attached to the plate surface, so after one or two years after the foil is easy to fall off. The PVC membrane is the application-specific vacuum lamination machine in 110-degree high temperature pressure plate attached to the surface, so easy to fall off.

Although the PVC film has excellent quality assurance, but some people may say, PVC, after all, chemical products, it is not as natural materials, can not be ruled out toxicity and odor, they will inevitably harm the environment. This is not true, it is because Germany is the raw materials for production of PVC membrane through a special extraction, toxic substances have been completely extracted, so PVC is completely non-toxic and tasteless, to human skin or respiratory system without any stimulation, for those who wood and paint people who are allergic to the use of PVC film packaging of furniture or kitchen is very appropriate. Through the use of PVC film for decorative film, people can use in a large number of secret board, particleboard, plywood and fiberboard to reduce the use of timber volume, thereby reducing the forest as well as environmental damage. From this perspective, PVC film for protecting the ecological environment has made a significant contribution.

The use of PVC in Western countries once caused a great controversy, many people tried all kinds of other materials to replace PVC. But the fact is, PVC mass ratio compared favorably with other alternatives, while the cost is cheaper than these materials. Experts through research found that in many industries, abandon the use of PVC will have a significant number of additional costs. Specific data indicate that abandon the use of PVC will be increased by several billion marks extra cost. With regard to specific consumers, this will mean a significant additional expenditure. With the surface material with PVC windows, for example, if these windows do not use PVC, but use ordinary wood as the surface, it is only necessary to increase the cleaning and maintenance of a number of extraordinary expenses. A small town in the UK, people in the past two decades, used wood windows, some of these windows, cleaning maintenance costs of the investigation and with the costs of cleaning PVC window to compare the results show that wood system of ordinary window clean-up costs of the clean-up costs than the PVC window twice.

6, a bright future

PVC industry is currently the world’s rapid development and broad prospects, all countries are optimistic about the potential of PVC, as well as its ecological benefits, PVC is its superior and unique performance to the world to prove their role and status of the current can not be replaced by any other product , social development needs of its environmental protection need it, and it is our human society, civilization and progress of the inevitable trend.

Note:

Germany is a PVC product showcase country, its production process has a long history, experienced, a world leader in terms of alone cabinets, PVC materials, accounts for 75% of the market share. Germany RENOLIT (Renolit) Corporation is the world’s largest PVC manufacturers. RENOLIT (Renolit) group belongs to RENOLIT – Wilk Limited have 16 production bases throughout the world, more than 2,000 employees. Its production of PVC film, with its excellent quality and international reputation. Shanghai Trading Company is a RENOLIT Germany silicon (Renolit)’s Greater China general agent, solely responsible for RENOLIT (Renolit) company in the Greater China region for all sales operations. Unite the entire company from top to bottom, work together to pursue client interests above everything else the strict purpose, warm and thoughtful and dedicated service for every customer.

As the world when the PVC industry flourishing, but unfortunately, in our domestic PVC furniture materials (including cabinet) market share of less than 10%, many consumers have not even heard of PVC as a furniture material, but I do not know PVC are. Why did Germany, as a higher-grade PVC film, non-toxic non-polluting (not including heavy metals, materials), environmental materials, the domestic market share is still so limited? Here, of course, there is a consumer-level problems, but mostly with our consumers pairs of PVC lack of proper understanding of this material relevant. It allows the production of PVC membrane of furniture has been limited, and thus can not scale. I believe that through the joint efforts of our peers, the market matures, PVC industry in the field of furniture, some at a new level.

This year’s two sessions have been concluded, however, impressive in a word “carbon” in particular keep people’s minds. “Low-carbon economy” for the first time among the two sessions, one of the hottest in the Internet survey, the “low carbon” word into two sessions this year is an important keywords. The deputies and members are generally concerned about the low-carbon issues; Jiu San Society “submitted on promoting low carbon economic development of China’s proposal” by the attention of all sectors … …

At present, the food industry rejects the excessive packaging, refuse to squander phenomenon. The use of recycled materials or sustainable production of forest products that do the voice is also growing, in addition to industry sources, the community called for environmental protection, low-carbon packaging voice getting higher and higher. Main reasons for this phenomenon, I think that apart from raising the level beyond which people understand, but also with the “excessive packaging” the impact of a certain relationship.

Excessive packaging has become a public nuisance

Over-packaging of goods has become a major hazard in today’s society, which not only caused economic loss to society, but also brought some social problems.

Excessive packaging not only created a huge amount of domestic waste, but also contributed to commercial fraud wind, damage the interests of consumers.

Statistics show that a number of luxury goods packaging costs have accounted for 70% of total product is already overwhelming and even black-hearted businesses the opportunity to bundle other products, consumers money and cost of an ordinary or even inferior goods purchased.

In addition, excessive packaging is also induced by the social atmosphere of a luxury, hidden corruption, exacerbated social disharmony. Astronomical moon cake, sky-high price of wine, astronomical health care products and so on, the wind-induced social luxury; excessive packaging holiday gifts by some as a “fig leaf”, with a valuable securities, gifts and even money, open bribery of the Road.

The impact of over-packaging is not only our daily lives, while those who are still a waste of our human finite source of energy. Refuse excessive packaging, promoting environmental protection, low-carbon packaging will be the general trend. Food packaging before the food distribution market, an essential process, access to relevant information, the author found that low-carbon technology can affect the food packaging a number of factors, but mainly packaging materials and packaging design of the two major factors.

Packaging materials have been made towards the development of low-carbon direction

1. Repeated reuse and recycling of packaging materials

Repeated re-use packaging, such as beer, beverages, soy sauce, vinegar glass bottle packaging with repeated use. Sweden and other countries to implement PC PET PET beverage bottles and bottles of re-using up to 20 times or more. Netherlands Wellman Inc. Johnson Inc. and the United States carried out 100% of the PET container recycling.

Packaging materials reuse and recycling, just to extend the plastic packaging materials such as polymer materials as life, when reached its useful life, they still faced with the treatment of waste and environmental pollution problems.

2. Edible packaging materials

For decades, people familiar with the use of sticky candy packaging paper and packaging ice cream corn baking cups are typically packaged edible packaging.

Is now generally used in edible plastic wrap, has developed into a multi-functional in nature, by a variety of biological macromolecules (proteins and polysaccharide) and lipid membrane made of multi-component food. Such composite membranes mainly through the interaction between different molecules, the formation of a stable emulsion, and then dried so that solvent evaporation and the formation of porous, transparent or translucent three-dimensional network structure of the film, the porous network structure so that with a clear waterproof film and a certain degree of choice permeability, and thus in the food industry, particularly in fresh fruits and vegetables, the broad application prospects.

3. Biodegradable materials

Biodegradable materials refers to the performance loss caused by a specific time within a particular environment, its chemical structure changes as a plastic.

Biodegradable plastic packaging material has both the functions and features of traditional plastics, but also the completion of life, adopted the role of ultraviolet sunlight or soil and water microbial role in the degradation and restore the natural environment division, which will eventually non-toxic the form of re-entry into the ecological environment, the return to nature.

According to reports, a new type of environmentally-friendly food packaging materials is expected to come out recently in the United States. Successful development of this new new food packaging film can prevent the infiltration of oxygen to achieve the preservation effect. Because of this new material from the composition of the main stem not suitable for eating vegetables and fruits, so it can be an biodegradable, environmentally friendly material. Estimated that this new material in the future is likely to replace traditional plastic film of polyethylene food packaging industry to become the main material.

Packaging design should also be a low-carbon

In the packaging field, product packaging shape is equally important, therefore, designers are making packaging design when, in addition to the pursuit of innovation, should also strive to convey the product’s brand identity and personality.

Taking into account the environmental requirements of consumers, the product’s overall weight and packaging materials is also very important to two factors. The targeted design strategy can quality into products, thereby enhancing the enterprise price points and profit margins, reduce material waste. Such as the U.S. market, a common cube wine is a good example, it can make the product a unique appearance in many competitors.

Carton manufacturer Chesapeake (Chesapeake) the company’s marketing director Bob Houghton believes that good design and reasonable structure is not only can reduce packaging waste, but also in some cases, to reduce plastic use.

Environmentally friendly packaging materials, coupled with a targeted design, is bound to reduce the material waste, the corresponding also reduced the production costs and increase profits, but the significance of low-carbon far more than this, the better to reduce the carbon emissions, protecting our environment for survival, creating a good living environment.

Whether the Copenhagen meeting, or two sessions of “low carbon” hot discussion, there are indications that low-carbon way to explore is the trend of social development and people’s consensus. Any one country’s sustainable development is indispensable to the effective and rational utilization of resources, China’s rapid economic development in recent decades, remarkable achievements, but it is undeniable that our model of economic development was still based on high energy consumption and on the basis of high pollution. In the food industry, environmental protection, low-carbon voice rising, “excessive packaging”, “blind packaging” means packaging such as high-carbon have also been improved, but the face of the existing results we can not relax, we should sort out ideas, to explore better low-carbon packaging, to the development of China’s low-carbon packaging road.

The face of the market on a wide selection of drinks and a variety of alcoholic beverages, its packaging to attract people’s attention has become a bright spot, elegant design, chic bottle shape for their elegance. Maybe you never noticed that in fact cap – as packaging in a small link in ensuring product quality and shape the product personality is also essential.

Bottle cap as part of the package, its functions are mainly two things: First, seal, the protective effect of wine, which is the most basic function of cap, but also the manufacturer of the most easy to do; second, aesthetics, As an integral part of the package, small caps can play the role of finishing touch. At present, some manufacturers in the selection caps on the effects of too much emphasis on its security is closely related to their technical content, but not the decisive role of the product itself, but the country’s laws and regulations and consumer self-protection.

In recent years, anti-counterfeit alcohol manufacturers increasingly attention as a bottle cap packaging as part of its anti-counterfeiting features and toward the production of forms of diversity, gentrification development. Is broken, type, open type, be able to sing, speak, multi-security bottle cap has been widely used by manufacturers.

Although the anti-counterfeit bottle features the ever-changing, but its use of materials, there are two main types,, Bp two kinds of aluminum and plastic.

Looking abroad, wine bottle packaging, which is characterized by colorful and has stability. In most cases, aluminum bottle caps, a simple form, making fine group of advanced color printing technology to make it consistent, exquisite design, gives a sense of refined elegance. , Caps style to use more traditional model, less change. Such as the Scotch whiskey bottle, then accompanied by pure black gold writing, gives a quaint, elegant, long-lasting enjoyment of feeling, played its proper role in identification.

Environmental protection in the name: corrugated packaging will become a major trend in

Recently, the State Development and Reform Commission deputy director Xie Zhenhua, the “China energy-saving emissions and combat climate change” press conference that China will cope with climate change into economic and social development plan, there, the future energy-saving, environmental protection and recycling economy, and industries such as energy-saving service will introduce a series of new policies.

The current financial crisis are still the backdrop, China has the need to reach targets to curb global warming at the same time must be to gain more space for economic development, the future environmental protection and economic development, the pressure heavily. However, in environmental planning, some new industries are being actively explored to find environmentally friendly and economical access roads. In the field of packaging industry, environmental and practical corrugated packaging by experts and scholars trying possession of both hands. As the corrugated packaging offers outstanding environmental performance has increasingly become the development trend of the future of packaging, the domestic cost-effective corrugated packaging equipment so caught the popular. Corrugated 2009 China International Exhibition, from Southeast Asia, the CIS, the Middle East and Africa and other regions of the carton factories have come to visit, and procurement. According to tracking statistics after the Great Exhibition, 4-August exhibitors generated through the exhibition of equipment turnover of 11.2 billion RMB.

“As the world’s largest environmentally friendly packaging trade show, we have been actively promoting environmental protection, packaging process, to encourage more exhibitors showcase environmentally friendly products”, “China International Corrugated Exhibition” organizer – Reed Exhibitions East China Josephine Lee, vice president, said. In 2008, Reed Exhibitions acquisition of the “China International Corrugated Show,” the remaining shares to take full control show has been continuously enriched through its own resources and to shape the green industry, a strong appeal, professional global exhibition. In the event of a positive initiative, on behalf of environmental protection in recent years, the latest trends and level of products in the show a gradual increase in the frequency of appearance. In 2008, Dongguan Hengli display new environment-friendly water-based ink, which does not contain volatile organic solvents, non-flammable, will not damage the printing operator health and other characteristics of atmospheric pollution has been recognized and popular audience. April 7, 2010 -9 in GD Modern International Exhibition Center at the “2010 China International Corrugated Show”, from Dongguan Jian-hua Environmental Protection Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. took the lead in environmental protection concepts for the flag, registered for the exhibition ; Kunshan Jin League thermal mechanical plant will be at the show highlights of the steam recovery unit, is currently the company’s products can save 20% of the coal and 90% of the water; addition Han titanium, Guangdong Tianlong Ink Group, Dongguan City, Kowloon Hydraulic Machinery Co., Ltd. , Dongguan City, prime Hardware Machinery Factory and other enterprises will also focus on environmentally friendly products, participated in this exhibition.

Of course, promoting the respect of environmental protection, but also the Government’s policy guidance, enterprises themselves set a good example. As the packaging industry’s largest exhibition of the China International Corrugated is doing a positive lead and a leading role. Josephine said that the upcoming 2010 China International Corrugated corrugated site will open a museum, and to demonstrate their creativity corrugated furniture. Corrugated furniture, wood furniture, broke through the shackles of traditional, low cost and more environmental protection; the same time, corrugated furniture with moisture-proof, scratch, light as well as the personality characteristics of fashion by the audience’s affection. From the home made of corrugated products, toys and decorations in a contemporary creative design concept, the concept of “environmental protection, pollution, recycling” concept. Future environmental corrugated furniture, waterproof corrugated containers, preservation, insulation, refrigeration-type cartons, etc. will become a part of people’s lives, they will be the world’s energy-saving, environmental protection and make an outstanding contribution.