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From the packaging design performance point of view, Food packaging design requirements can be divided into two parts, internal and external:

The inherent requirements of food packaging design: the inherent requirements of food packaging design is through the packaging to make food packaging design in its quality and quantity to achieve the technical requirements.

Food packaging design strength requirements: refers to the package design to protect the packaged food in storage, stacking, transport, handling the process of resistance to various destructive outside, such as pressure, force of impact and vibration. Food packaging design strength requirements related factors, the main mode of transport (such as cars, aircraft), stacking form (such as multi-layer stacking, cross-stacking) and environment (such as climate, sanitation) and other three factors.

Barrier food packaging design requirements: barrier food packaging design is one important performance. A lot of food in storage, due to errands barrier packaging design and quality of food flavor changes, and ultimately affect the quality of food. Barrier packaging design requirements determined by the characteristics of the food itself, its characteristic manifestations of external barriers, internal barriers or selective blocking and so on. Barrier material with air, water, oil, light, microorganisms and so on.

Respiratory requirements of food packaging design: some are exported to other foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, during storage in the package design remains respiratory function, therefore, such packaging material or container with a breathable, or able to control respiration, to achieve the preservation purposes.

Nutritional requirements of food packaging: food storage in the packaging process, the gradual loss of nutrients, so food packaging packaging design should be conducive to the preservation of food and nutrition, better packaging packaging design is locked through nutrition.

Other requirements: food packaging packaging design there are many inherent requirements, such as heat resistance, sunlight requirements, shatterproof requirements, moisture requirements.

External requirements of food packaging: food packaging packaging design is the use of the external requirements of food packaging reflects the characteristics, performance, image, outside of food and means of visualization and manifestation.

Safety requirements for food packaging design: the safety of food packaging design, including health and safety, safe handling and use of security and so on. Health and safety is the food packaging materials should not contain harmful substances; in the packaging design technology, so that after treatment in the nutritional content of food, color and taste as much as possible unchanged. Handling safety is the packaging design to ensure the safety of transport problems in the handling process should also include consumers shopping after extraction and purchase portable security. Use of safety is to ensure that consumers in the open, not to be consumed during the injury.

Packaging design is not only the art of creation, but also product marketing activities, Tang Yi-fang that the packaging design should be marketing point of view, we must re-recognize it; packaging design for the beneficiary groups? Packaging design in the end are we going?

Packaging design for product packaging and design. But the product is the object of packaging design, not subject. Of the main designers, customers and end consumers in three parts.

Development of the market today, all the marketing activities of enterprises should be the ultimate consumer as the core. Designers and customers on the unity of all differences should be the core up to the final consumer, Tang Yi-fang that packaging design is not simply the pursuit of beauty, but not the customers, said a unilateral advantages and disadvantages of packaging design, but for the final consumers consider this principle be upheld in order to avoid the failure of packaging design, or unlikely to succeed. With the increasing wealth of goods and the fierce market competition, we must re-package design is to understand what.

Packaging is the product “concept, modern packaging products to protect do not just packaging, packaging ideas for the final extension of consumer services. This concept of set, will cause great changes in the field of packaging design.

According to “industrial production permit regulations,” regulations, next month, all food paper packaging, containers, etc. must sell QS market access being available, unable to obtain access to the production enterprise will fade out.

Daiyue quality monitoring stations, said law enforcement officers, from September 1, the food paper packaging, paper containers for food with the QS Manager of the formal investigation into all the food paper packaging, containers and other market access must be listed QS sales, otherwise they would be investigated.

“As the costumes food and beverage containers, paper cups, quality of the product is safe, very important to consumers. Quality supervision departments will have cup of raw materials used in pulp production enterprises, waxed floor wax, etc. with repeated testing, then, only full compliance of the company to get access, can not get access to the company will exit the market after September 1. “law enforcement personnel, to be included in the first directory of food paper packaging, containers and other products, including packing and containers Class of 21 varieties of two major categories, including food packaging cellophane paper, food packaging, food packaging board, brown paper and, while the food is often used with paper containers, including paper bag, paper cans, paper cups, paper tableware, paper and so on, which usually covers almost all direct contact with food packaging.

“For example, instant noodle bowl, hamburgers, sandwiches and other cooked food like wrapping paper, cookie baking paper, candy, preserved fruits, etc. wrapping paper, tea cake, wrapping paper, tea bag, wrapping paper, the Class of wax paper food packaging, ice-cream wrapping paper, etc., all within the scope of management in QS. “law enforcement officers explained that under the new regulations, not been included in the first directory of food paper packaging, container production permit card company, not the production of the product; any unit or individual may sell or use in business activities without the production license of the product. “Inspection process, we will be in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, investigate and punish those who violate the regulations.”

Here, quality supervision staff to remind consumers buy disposable cups, be sure to look for QS logo. After September 1, consumers purchasing a paper cup not found to QS mark, may be reported to the quality supervision departments. In addition, to carefully review whether the sign package labeled “product name, producer name and address, product performance standards, production date, shelf life” and other countries require labeling of the contents of the label if the contents of cups incomplete or not specification, it is best not to buy.

Food and raw materials into the food trays which can be used insurance, film wrapped, easy to use convenient. PS clamshell trays to its environmentally friendly non-perishable food. Application: All kinds of fresh food, medicine and oral solution, a wide range of specifications, process production, is a good choice of foods. Better application of the general supermarket. With the continued strengthening of ecological awareness and sustainable development become a consensus, the idea for the development and use of food trays provided strong support. In plastic trays processing industry, wood is still occupied by low-cost first. Manufacturers concerned about sustainable development, but more concerned about the price of materials. Return to use of plastic is very attractive, but is still today wooden pallet transportation, distribution, storage, the main force in the industry still occupies a significant position, while the plastic trays is its durability, weight light and to the pallet industry into.
Food trays processing technology takes many forms: injection molding, structural framework, thermoplastic molding, rotational molding and compression molding. These products are increasingly broad market acceptance and recognition applications in food, beverage, medicine, groceries, cars, and the U.S. postal industry.
Easy handling and the cost of wooden pallets has been the focus of attention, the current environmental concerns, renewed use of plastic pallets. Reusable plastic trays is a major attraction. Several manufacturers focus on financial investment in the food tray to produce a low-cost plastic pallets, wooden pallets and have a strong cost competitiveness. Using both the raw materials recovery and waste particles can better control costs. Another advantage of the plastic trays conditions, international trade and transport requirements of the wooden pallet fumigation, to prevent the export turnover in the process of insect transmission. Meanwhile, the world’s first industrial plastic trays system “circle” of the establishment, use of electronic radio frequency identification technology, reusable plastic trays, in use by one-way cost more economical. “Sustainable development issues are front and center issue, it makes plastic tray shows a lot of advantages.” Los Angeles office Regal Plastics materials management, general manager of Bill Mishell stressed. “Said big-day break, the final conclusion, plastic tray cheap, affordable, and I have not seen that company at the expense of economic interests, try to talk about sustainable development.”
Many observers believe that with the increase in warehouse automation, the role of plastic pallets will be more evident. The higher degree of automation, the more demands tray with the reusability and reliability. Compared to plastic and wood, it’s easy to design, stability and light weight are obvious advantages

Number of monomer units connected chain structure of polymers formed, called the linear polymer or a polymer chain. Such polymers can be swollen in the solvent and can dissolve. Thermal softening, and can flow. Most can melt without decomposition, can be repeatedly melted several times. Has good flexibility and plasticity. Most can be extended by cold or roll to increase their degree of molecular orientation. Most of the general linear thermoplastic polymer.

In the “Food Safety Law”, “used in food packaging materials and containers that package food or food additives used in full bloom of paper, bamboo, wood, metal, enamel, ceramic, plastic, rubber, natural fiber, chemical fiber and glass products, and direct contact with food or food additive paint. ”

As food of the “personal clothing”, the safety of food packaging materials will directly affect food quality, substandard food packaging in the course of adverse effects to human health, particularly the health of children and young people will have a significant safety development hidden.

Understand consumer

Plastic preferred “PE” logo

1, to the regular supermarkets to buy the regular product, obtain a copy of notes of evidence in future when the only evidence of complaints or reports.

2, carefully read the product packaging information, including name of manufacturer, production license (QS), production numbers, corporate logos and trademarks.

3, buy fresh film and plastic products, look for product packaging are not specified by the polyethylene (PE) is made of plastic wrap or plastic products, packaging is marked with “PE”, “do not contain PVC” or “can be used for microwave heating,” such a symbol, written material of PVC or do not do not buy as much as possible.

4, pay attention to product use and application and, if inappropriate equipment plastic oil, acidic food.

5, when the food is any plastic film packaging, must not use the microwave cooking or in the steamer, rice cooker heating.

Plugging the new law

Article 27: Food production and operation shall comply with food safety standards and meet the following requirements:

(E) tableware, drinking, and in full bloom with the direct import of food containers should be washed before use, disinfection, cooking utensils, appliances should be cleaned after use to keep clean;

(F) the storage, transport and handling of food containers, tools and equipment should be safe, sound, clean to prevent food contamination and meet the required temperature to ensure food safety and other special requirements, may not be food and toxic, hazardous materials with transport;

(G) directly imported food should be small packets or in nontoxic, clean packaging materials, utensils.

Mention of the packaging, people immediately think of its function to protect goods. In fact, the real charm of the source package is its marketing function. Today, packaging protection in the increasingly weakened, while the marketing functions have gradually strengthened. Packaging has become an important tool for business promotion.
    First, packaging is really attractive
U.S. food company introduced a new chocolate, as with the other company’s chocolate is no different, even if nobody cares about affordable too. Later, the company changed the marketing strategy for the design of portable gorgeous chocolate packaging, candy prominent feature of their gifts will be price increases several times, business has been remarkably good results. The beginning of reform and opening, Hong Kong businessmen to the altar of Sichuan pickled mustard installed a large number of purchase, and then break the large altar, for plastic bag, changed hands sold to other countries, not only doubled in price, but also more popular。

     Shopping bags, paper, or plastic? When every time we go to the supermarket shopping, perhaps we would ask ourselves this question. Paper bags and plastic bags because of the environmental impact of their advantages and disadvantages, and even some environmentalists are also puzzled by this simple choice. Experts say the raw material paper timber, plastic bags, raw materials are crude oil. Americans spend each year for the production of shopping bags, manufacturers need to run out 14 million trees, or 12 million barrels of oil. Air pollution caused by production of paper bags, 70 percent higher than the production of plastic bags.

        However, plastic bags, once produced it is difficult natural degradation, they can exist for centuries, even millennia. Because of cheaper production costs of plastic bags, the U.S. Food and grocery stores usually select them. But San Francisco is limiting consumers to use plastic bags. Starting in April of this year, the city will only allow the use of renewable bio-degradable plastic bags or paper bags. Biodegradable plastic bags in a few months rather than several hundred years ago decomposition. Whether paper or plastic bags, environmentalists advocate is the same: to be recycling to use them. They further pointed out that the best option, of course, the use of a bag, and always bring their own bags.

Plastics are synthetic or natural polymer resin as the main material. After adding various additives, to a certain temperature and pressure with a scalable, can be fixed after cooling the shape of a class of materials. Natural or synthetic polymer resin molecules in the molten state, and around the uniform distribution of additive molecules in a process called plastination, having already achieved this process has been called plastination, and has not yet reached, is considered not plasticized.
Plastics according to their own performance to hours can be divided into: You can repeatedly melt forming can maintain their identity and the underlying thermoplastic and can only carry out a fusion of the thermosetting plastic two broad categories. According to their purpose for the use of a wide range of points can be divided into low prices, better overall performance of General Plastics, such as PE, PP, PVC, PS, and amino plastics have good physical and mechanical strength, it may replace the metal used in construction machinery engineering plastics, such as: ABS, nylon, polyester, POM, TPX-1 and so on. As well as in a fine performance, particularly a class of engineering plastics, such as: sex with a particularly good resistance to radiation, temperature, etc. The specialty plastics, such as: poly aryl sulfone, liquid crystal polymers. Thermoplastic resin according to the size of molecular crystal points, can be divided into amorphous thermoplastic polymers and two types of crystalline polymers.
The main characteristics of plastics are: first, the density of small, high specific strength, get a higher yield of the packaging that “the quality of the packaging unit of volume or package size. Second, most of the plastics chemical resistance is good, there are Good acid and alkali resistance, various types of organic-Rong agents, long-term placement, oxidation does not occur. Third, forming easy to consume less power than required for forming steel and other metal materials. Fourth, with good transparency, easy coloring nature. Fifth, has good strength, unit weight of the intensity of high-performance, impact resistance, easy modification. Sixth, the low processing costs. Seventh, excellent insulation.

Definition bags

Bag is a bag used for packaging of various products, widely used in daily life and industrial production.

Classification bags
Press material is often divided into plastic clamshell bags, cloth bags, paper bags and so on.
By use of terms can be divided into food trays packaging bags, industrial bags and specialty bags.
According to environmental standards, can be divided into green bags and non-environmentally friendly bags.

The development of bag
The development of bags has gone through four distinct phases: the primitive stage of packing bags, big bags stage, the small packets of bagging stage and gradually into the current environmental (green) bags of the new stage. With the development of commodity economy, packaging of the commodity itself, more and more significant, it has become a kind of commodity production is no longer dependent on the particular product, a kind of all commodities can not be separated, and widely used products.