Packaging is an important component of many products such as food. To carry out a complete packaging, packaging materials, packaging containers, packaging equipment and other main and auxiliary tools are indispensable. The sustained demand for packaging in various industries has laid a solid foundation for the packaging industry to establish a long-term foothold in the market. Entering a new round of industrial revolution brought about by technological changes, the evolution of the entire packaging industry chain towards green, intelligent, and sustainable development will become an important direction.
In daily life, packaging can be seen almost everywhere, from food, beverages, catering takeout, to various commodities such as daily necessities and home appliances. There are many types of packaging, including paper packaging, metal packaging, plastic packaging, glass packaging, and so on. Packaging helps to facilitate the circulation and increase the value of goods. Beautiful and special packaging also attracts consumers' attention. For items such as food that may undergo qualitative changes due to external influences, packaging can achieve multiple effects such as oil resistance, moisture resistance, freshness preservation, and high barrier, allowing the items inside the packaging to maintain their original quality for a relatively long time.
When the functionality and additional attributes of packaging have developed to a certain stage, the emergence of new information technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, 5G, and AI provides support for the industry's transformation towards the new era and new demands. Nowadays, low-carbon and environmentally friendly packaging materials and packaging processes, the transformation and upgrading of packaging equipment towards intelligence and efficiency, and the cultivation of professional high-tech talents have become new propositions for the development of the packaging industry.
Firstly, since 2020, China has successively issued a series of policy documents such as the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Control of Plastic Pollution" and the "Notice on Solidly Promoting the Control of Plastic Pollution", strengthening the management of plastic packaging products with increasingly strict "plastic ban orders". On the other hand, for upstream packaging product companies, they have successively started to develop alternative packaging materials such as biodegradable plastics, biodegradable plastics, and water degradable plastics. Degradable plastics such as PLA, PHA, and PPC have been applied in various fields such as packaging materials, food, cosmetics, and agricultural production.
Secondly, packaging equipment can almost be regarded as the "weapon" of the packaging industry. These mechanical equipment serve the midstream manufacturing industry and demonstrate their own strengths. In the current era where the manufacturing industry is committed to enhancing its core competitiveness, mechanical equipment with higher technological content and stronger performance undoubtedly occupies the "C position". In the field of food only, in recent years, packaging machinery enterprises represented by Jiangsu Ziyi, Hangzhou Yongchuang Intelligent, and Tianjin Sanqiao Packaging have accelerated the research and development of multi-channel small bag packaging machines, Baijiu intelligent packaging equipment, as well as multiple types of packaging machinery such as milk powder high-precision multi station filling, vacuum nitrogen filling and can sealing production lines, and developed projects such as intelligent packaging equipment expansion to benefit the manufacturing industry with high-quality packaging machinery from saving packaging materials, reducing energy consumption, improving performance and other aspects.