Simple packaging becomes international fashion

Simple packaging into international fashion, yesterday, China International Processing, Packaging and Printing Technology Exhibition opened in Shanghai, Chinese and foreign packaging equipment manufacturers focused on display, are dedicated to saving materials, recycling of flexible and simple new technology.

Today, over-packaging is generally provocative, and packaging equipment manufacturers are also starting to develop new technologies. In this science and technology exhibition, the products displayed in the packaging line, such as beverage cups, milk bags, snack boxes, medicine bottles, etc., are designed to be very simple, and basically new materials such as compressed paper and degradable thin plastic materials are used. Packing, strapping, sealing nails or kraft paper sealing tapes are used for packing. The reporter saw that a newly-developed cheap hot melt adhesive can be sealed with just one coat and the amount and cost of materials are both significantly reduce. Some new equipment simply replaces cardboard boxes with high-strength plastic seals. Transparent plastic seals are also equipped with pickpockets, which look lightweight and beautiful.

There is also a new approach to the packaging of bulky goods. Corrugated cardboard has historically been used for the manufacture of outer packaging cartons. The folded corrugated paper exhibited by an American company can be used exclusively in boxes. Instead of bulk foam fillers, the weight does not increase and the volume becomes smaller. . A representative of the American Packaging Machinery Manufacturing Association said that some countries in the United States and the European Union have already legislated to “lose weight” commodities and stipulated that the volume of packaged goods should not be greater than one-tenth of that of the goods themselves, otherwise it would be banned and punished.

An expert in the domestic packaging industry said that packaging waste has accounted for nearly 30% of municipal waste, and its volume accounts for half of household waste. In the past, many companies launched "boutiques" to reflect their worth, all adopting small commodity packaging, multi-level packaging, packaging costs may account for more than 30% of the total cost, and some even "six packs of goods", to consumers and The environment is unfavorable. In recent years, due to the great changes in consumer attitudes, flexible and simple garments that meet the requirements of a conservation-oriented society have become popular.

Reprinted from: China Packaging Business Network