Market current situation and development trend of the food packaging industry

With the development of China’s economy, the continuous renewal of the technology, the continuous improvement of enterprises of the food packaging industry, the continuous scale of industry, the rapid development of enterprises, the food packaging industry continues to maintain the rapid growth of scale efficiency. With the increasing population of the city and the rapid development of retail infrastructure, the growing demand for packaged food has promoted the expansion of the packaging market. According to a report from a market research agency, the global food packaging market will reach $606.3 billion by 2026, with a compound annual growth rate of 5.6%. China’s packaging equipment market demand will reach 16.85 billion yuan in2021, with a compound annual growth rate of 10.15%. At the same time, new development is also emerging in the packaging industry.

First.The definition and classification of the food packaging industry

Food packaging is an important part of food, which has the characteristics of protecting food from external biological, chemical and physical factors, and maintaining the stability of food. According to the difference of packaging materials, food packaging can be divided into traditional food packaging and new food packaging.

Main types of food packaging

Second. Analysis of the development status of the food packaging industry

In recent years, under the background of the continuous improvement of the national economy and the steady growth of per capita disposable income, China’s food and beverage consumption demand has continued to expand. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2019, the operating income of food industry enterprises reached 9227.92 billion yuan, up 45% year on year: the total profit reached 669.71 billion yuan, up 6.8% year on year. The rapid development of the food industry has driven the development of the food and beverage packaging industry, and the market demand presents a growth trend.

Total operating income and profits of Chinese food enterprises from 2013 to 2019

Third.Analysis of the future trend of the packaging industry

1、The "appearance level" packaging is preferred

With more young consumers entering, the pattern of the consumer market has quietly changed. On the one hand, there are significant differences between young consumer’s demands for product function and appearance and their parents; a large number of web celebrity products grasp the dividend of appearance level economy with their eye-catching packaging, and the customized and co-branded packaging has also become the first choice for many food innovations.

On the other hand, the young consumers of the network consumption acceptance are significantly higher and compared with the traditional retail formats, the electricity of packaging standardization and durability requirements are higher, compared with offline business super more dependent on plastic packaging, mode of various specifications after prior planning of carton by Jingdong electricity platform widely used, in order to meet the needs of logistics assembly

2. Intelligent form of packaging

Active packaging and intelligent packaging are two new forms of packaging, they give food packaging functional characteristics that are not available to traditional packaging, and meet the requirements of food quality and safety, which is the new concept of future food packaging design, but also the development trend of food packaging.

Analysis of the characteristics of active packaging and intelligent packaging

3.Diversified packaging materials

In recent years, in order to improve food safety and reduce environmental pollution, environment-friendly preparation using natural polymer materials as raw materials, biodegradable new packaging materials has attracted more and more attention. Special equipment used for food packaging is also developed towards good dynamic precision and a high degree of automation to meet the increasing production demand, It is expected that recycled environmentally friendly packaging materials will become the main trend of the development of the packaging industry, and green packaging materials and nano-packaging materials will be vigorously developed and developed in the future.

As a manufacturer committed to providing automatic food packaging machine ry, Guangdong Kenwei intellectualized Machinery Co., Ltd is a global professional manufacturer of intelligent weighing and packaging equipment. Its products include food weighing equipment(combination weigher, linear weigher ), food quality testing products ( Check Weigher , Metal Detector, Combined Check Weigher )、 automatic food production line packaging equipment, etc., it suitable for a variety of shapes, different sizes of solid-state food production and packaging, not only for the general food manufacturers to improve the production efficiency, but also greatly improve the economic benefits of food manufacturers.

For example, the "standard vertical weighing and packaging system " of Guangdong Kenwei Intellectualized Machinery Co., Ltd, consists of a vibration feeder, working platform, z-type conveyor, weighing combination scale, falling gold detector, vertical packaging machine , finished product conveyor, etc., to complete the whole process from automatic feeding to automatic weighing and automatic packaging.

The system is suitable for a very wide range of materials, It is suitable for weighing leisure food such as candy、seeds、jelly、frozen food、pistachio、nut、peanuts, etc. and pet foods, puffy foods. Hardware and plastic glue materials shall also apply.

The system is suitable for a flexible variety of bag types, including the following various types of bag types:

Therefore, the system due to the high-cost performance, a wide range of applicable materials, high measurement accuracy, fast packaging speed, and other advantages, has become the good assistant of many foods manufactures to improve production efficiency, improve economic efficiency!