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Packaging industry of a country’s level of development and packaging design, research and development philosophy, which was the country’s economic life, an important symbol in the degree of civilization. Packaging industry to cover not only the packaging product design, production, packaging and printing, packaging and supply of raw and auxiliary materials, packaging machinery and packaging equipment manufacturing and other areas of production, packaging products is also involved in the first to the third industry, the flow of goods each link. Right after use of packaging materials disposal, recovery and recycling of the packaging industry is a permanent social responsibility. Therefore, the packaging industry’s development and the global economy – body-oriented and sustainable development of human society is closely related to. Packaging industry as a “sunrise industry” is bound to the global manufacturing industry and its products, the international flow of produce can not be underestimated role. To quickly reduce the domestic confectionery, chocolate products and the gap between the developed countries, and only take the road of technological innovation. In the future, the domestic candy, chocolate packaging trends will inevitably toward the high-speed automated packaging machine, a machine more versatile and packaging design features of direction.

First of all, candy, chocolate manufacturers of standardized products for packaging, generally require high-speed, automated packaging machine in pursuit of economies of scale packaging cost optimization. Thus, in recent years, manufacturers of packaging machines has developed different types of products suitable for high-speed, automatic candy, chocolate packaging machine, such as that for the traditional pillow packaging and products which are suitable for double-kink kink used in packaging machines. In such packaging machine manufacturers today use the latest technologies, such as full-servo motors, electro-optical tracking, high-speed camera, so as to achieve the packaging machine performance, there are already 1500 ~ 2000 per minute, high-speed hard candy pillow type packing machine . High-speed pillow packing machine chocolate is more cold air from the equipment and packaging films, etc. to match the development, in order to achieve high speed without affecting the quality of chocolate products. In addition, and chocolate packaging machine conveyor belt connected to the automatic steering, organize, emergency stop, speed has also been widely used. Second, for non-standard or seasonal products, packaging machine should be flexible, and is characterized by light and compact. The type of packaging machine is not the pursuit of speed, but rather to seek personalized packaging and flexible adaptability. In addition, the originality of the packaging design in order to meet the commodity competition, unceasingly, requesting different, giving a strong visual impact, such as bottled xylitol chewing gum on the market today, due to improvements in packaging suitable for the younger generation of consumer psychology, the products are very popular .

The current outer form of candy packaging mainly Pillow Bag (traditional), and vertical bags (chocolate are more), with which the use of vertical bag apart from the Spanish Barbosa CADBURY automatic packaging equipment, other companies (including: NESTLE, MARS, HERSHEYS, LECONTE, etc.) are based on pre-packed bags and then manually. Candy, chocolate packaging according to the market, depending on packaging techniques determined by product characteristics. Chocolate and candy packaging products, primarily its market positioning, the product’s own requirements, and the value of packaging and other factors. For example, if the product is positioned as a high-end consumer gift, then the packaging will adopt the look and feel more attractive, more high-end packaging forms, such as  paper packing box, wooden packing box, plastic boxes or metal boxes are on the election.

As for the mass consumer products, packaging will be relatively simple, such as the Pillow bag is a popular favor packaging businesses in the form of simple and mature technology, packaging, high efficiency, and the price is cheap. In addition, some products used in packaging technology also depends on the characteristics of the product itself. For example: chocolate products at higher temperatures will produce fat deposition, affecting the quality and appearance of packaged chocolate Pillow bag so commonly used cold-seal technology. Overall, the future form of candy packaging will be to diversify the direction of development, and packaging equipment will also be toward multi-functional, high performance, automated direction.