U.S. takes measures to prevent shrinkage in corrugated packaging

At the Packaging Conference held by the American Forestry and Paper Association, J. Moore, president and chief executive officer of the Smeemet Stone Corporation, pointed out at the meeting that the current annual growth rate of the packaging industry is only 1.5%-2%. The main reason for the slowdown in growth rate is the decrease in the use of paper packaging materials. In particular, the demand for cartons and folding cartons fell by 6.3% and 2.6%, respectively, due to competition from plastics. If the trend continues to develop, 4 million to 5 million tons of paper will be lost within five years. Although the American Corrugated Packaging Federation spent US$2.3 million annually for the promotion of cartons and cartons, standardization, and other efforts in the past four years, it still faces serious challenges.

Pilla International pointed out that the trend of retailers using "turnaround plastic grills" is increasing. The European market expects to increase its share of the corrugated packaging market by 2005 from the current 400,000 tons to 21 million tons, which will be replaced by plastic grill boxes, which will produce 109 million tons of plastics from 2002. It rose to 138 million tons in 2005. According to a survey of the food retail industry in the European market, there are about 30 million plastic flower boxes in the UK, 15 to 16 million in France, and 40 million in Germany. Although corrugated packaging can make full use of warehouse space, carton boxes can be recycled and recycled, meet ecological requirements, and paper packaging can be printed with high-quality patterns and colors, and can be tracked and controlled, but the above advantages are still ignored by retailers. Therefore, the American Forestry and Paper Association decided to “positive advice and persuasion” to retailers to prevent further loss of corrugated packaging.