The future prospects of food packaging machinery industry are huge

With the improvement of Chinese people's living standards and the booming tourism industry, snack foods represented by puffed cereals, fried nuts, fried potatoes, sugar, dried meat and fish, dried fruits and vegetables, and candies are increasing at a rate 20% higher than the food market sales every year.

According to statistics, the industrial output value of China's snack foods reached more than 200 billion yuan in 2010. In the future, China's demand for snack food packaging will continue to be strong, and the food packaging machinery industry has huge room for development in the future.

Urbanization construction provides new opportunities for the packaging industry

With the rapid and healthy development of China's national economy, China's packaging industry has become an industry with great development potential and will surely have a broad market space. The national urbanization rate will increase from the current 39.1% to 60% in 2020. The national urban population will increase by 1% annually on average, from the current 502 million to about 900 million in 2020; the national urban agglomerations will increase from the current three major ones to more than a dozen, and the distribution will also tend to be reasonable. Stiglitz, one of the winners of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, ranked China's urbanization and the United States' high technology as two key factors in the process of human development in the 21st century, and believed that urbanization is the top challenge and opportunity for China in the new century. The grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way - a more developed economy, a more sound democracy, more advanced science and education, a more prosperous culture, a more harmonious society, and a more prosperous people's life, and the 21st century of people-oriented and coordinated development of people and economic society have put forward higher requirements for the development of the packaging industry and brought new development opportunities.

With the continuous advancement of China's urbanization construction, the dairy and beverage industry has become one of the most growing industries in China in recent years. With people's increasing attention to health, the variety of dairy beverage products and their supporting packaging products has emerged in an endless stream. At the same time, aseptic filling technology, beer, milk PET plastic bottle packaging and other technologies are being favored and adopted by more and more manufacturers.

Rapid increase in foreign demand

In addition to the attractive domestic market, the export market of Chinese products is also optimistic. After entering the WTO, the export value of China's major export products is expected to increase by about US$8 billion to US$10 billion each year. The increase in product exports will inevitably drive the growth of corresponding product packaging.

According to analysts from China Food Machinery Network, the demand for food packaging machinery in foreign markets has also greatly increased: India, the world's second largest food producer, has a relatively small scale of food industry. As people's living standards improve, the demand for processed food and fast and convenient food increases. Therefore, there is a strong demand for food packaging machinery and convenient food processing machinery. China's food packaging machinery is very popular due to its good quality and low price.

In addition to India, the UAE also needs Chinese packaging machinery and food machinery very much. The market potential here is huge and the prospects are promising. Chinese products, especially medium and small packaging machinery and food processing machinery, are more suitable for the market demand of the UAE and even the entire Middle East. The reason is that the UAE's packaging machinery manufacturing industry has not really started, while the market demand for packaging machinery is increasing day by day. Second, the UAE has a weak industrial foundation and the people have a concept of emphasizing commerce over industry. This provides a rare opportunity and a huge potential market for Chinese packaging and food processing machinery to enter the UAE market for product sales and production.

Increase independent research and development to get closer to the international market

A food machinery expert in Beijing believes that although the food packaging machinery industry has made great progress, the overall equipment level of China's food industry still has a certain gap compared with developed countries. For example, the technological content of some food packaging machinery is still relatively low, there are few products with independent intellectual property rights, the performance, reliability, quality and service of domestic equipment cannot keep up with the needs of users, and some high-end packaging machinery still relies on imports, etc., which need to be solved by the food packaging machinery industry through technology and product innovation.

Compared with developed countries, my country's food packaging machinery research started late. my country's food packaging machinery industry has only been formed for 20 to 30 years. In terms of food packaging machinery research and development, the scientific research strength is insufficient and the foundation is not solid enough. To some extent, it has also slowed down the pace of the food and packaging industry. How to improve the scientific research strength of food packaging machinery as soon as possible and catch up with the technical level of developed countries so as to seize this huge market is an urgent problem that my country needs to solve.

The director of a large food production enterprise in Beijing believes that in terms of food sales packaging, there are two most commonly used and basic packaging process methods, namely filling and wrapping. The filling method is applicable to almost all materials and various packaging containers. Specifically, for liquids, powders, and granules with good fluidity, the packaging process can be completed mainly by relying on their own gravity, and with the assistance of certain machinery when necessary. For semi-fluids with strong viscosity or single or assembled parts with larger shapes, corresponding compulsory measures such as extrusion, pushing, picking and placing are required. As for the wrapping method, it is different from this. It is mainly suitable for single or assembled parts with regular appearance, sufficient rigidity, and tight packaging. Flexible plastics and their composite materials are mostly used for wrapping with the help of mechanical action.

In the past decade, the international packaging industry has attached great importance to improving the general capabilities and multi-functional integration capabilities of packaging machinery and the entire packaging system, and providing timely and flexible production means for the market to develop diversified commodities that are changing with each passing day. At the same time, based on the actual needs of reasonable simplification of packaging and advantageous packaging process methods, continuous exploration has significantly accelerated the pace of its own technological innovation. In particular, it echoes the synchronous development of modern automatic machine tools and gradually clarifies.

Enhance the development of complete sets of equipment to meet market demand

Analysts at China Food Machinery Network believe that if Chinese food packaging machinery companies want to truly go abroad, occupy the international market, and truly unleash the huge potential of Made in China, they must establish a new system of diversified, universal, multifunctional and integrated packaging machinery, and must focus on solving the major problems of combination and mechatronics. This is undoubtedly an important development direction in the future.

However, compared with the world's powerful countries, my country's product varieties and complete sets are small, and most of them are mainly single-machine production, while most of the foreign countries are supporting production, and the profit of single-machine production and sales is meager, and it is impossible to obtain the high efficiency of complete sets of equipment sales. In addition, the product reliability is poor, the technology update speed is slow, and new technologies, new processes, and new materials are rarely used.

my country's food and packaging machinery has more single machines and fewer complete sets, more general models, and fewer equipment that meets special requirements and special materials. There are many products with low technical content, and few products with high technical added value and high productivity; intelligent equipment is still in the development stage.

With the acceleration of people's daily work pace, the abundance of nutritional and health foods, and the enhancement of environmental protection awareness, many new requirements will inevitably be put forward for food and its packaging in the future. However, we should also see the advantages of my country's food and packaging machinery. my country's food and packaging machinery has moderate technology, low price and good quality, which is very suitable for the economic conditions of developing countries and regions. In the future, there will be broad prospects for export to these countries and regions, and some equipment can also be exported to developed countries.

The future development of my country's food machinery is still in the hands of many enterprises. With the support of favorable government policies, enterprises can only adhere to the above direction and take a long-term development path. I believe that in the near future, we will be able to see new highlights of China's food machinery!