The packaging industry expert pointed out that paper package now is the recognized green package and it has many advantages in the aspects of energy conservation, saving resources and protecting environment. From the point of the international market, the time of food paper packaging has come.

Japan put forward new glass packaging paper.

A Japanese company has launched a new glass packaging paper used for packaging fruits, vegetables and other fresh food, and the packaging paper can inhibit their maturing process and extend the intention period for 2 times. A layer of sabinol that is a special chemical is printed on the surface of the glass paper, and the substance can inhibit the activities of ethylene enzymes which can promote the maturation of fruits and vegetables so as to extend the length for preservation. Using this kind of packaging paper not only can make the long distance transportation of the food easier and reduce losses, but also can reduce the usage amount of preservatives and lower the cost.

The analysis of the development trend of foreign glass packaging industry

As glass packaging industry tries to compete with such new packaging materials and containers as paper containers and plastic bottles, the glass container manufacturing enterprises in the developed countries have been committed to make the quality of their products more reliable, the appearance more beautiful, the cost lower and the price cheaper.

In order to achieve these goals, the development trend of foreign glass packaging industry is mainly embodied in the four aspects of adopting advanced energy-saving technology, lightweight of containers, improving labor productivity and production concentration.

Green package is one of the development trend of packaging, and paper package and paper containers are the members of green package, which form will green package develop in?

The development of the printing technology of paper package will have the following new features: monolayer material developing toward multilayer material; the coexistence of many printing methods including offset printing, gravure, flexographic printing and screen printing, etc. and flexographic printing will have the fastest growing; sheet-fed developing toward roll paper and one machine production developing toward on-line production; the comprehensive application of all kinds of relevant new technologies (such as computer design, digital technology, laser processing technology and new materials) will optimize the whole production system constantly.

The development trend of pape packaging container is: the one-time-shaped molded paper containers will gradually take the place of the present die-cutting paper containers; the deep plastic-coated technology will gradually take the place of the past wax coating; the compound technology becomes the important skill of the development of paper containers; CAD and CAM system will greatly shorten the design and manufacturing cycle of paper packaging containers. In addition, the package of paper products mainly develops the high-end paper package with low gram weight, high strength, light weight so as to achieve the goals of standardization, seriation, many varieties, more base material and many purposes.

It is known that from 2011 to 2015, the total output value of China’s packaging industry is expected to exceed 600 billion yuan, and the annual average growth rate keeps about the level of 16%. Classified by products, the output of China’s paper packaging products will reach 36 million tons by 2015, the output of plastic packaging products will be 9.46 million tons, the output of metal output of packaging products will be 4.91 million tons, the output of glass packaging products will be 15.5 million tons, and the output of packaging machinery will be 1.2 million sets. It is predicted that in the future, the circular economy will become the main mode of the packaging industry development, the recycling of packaging wast resources will realize industrialization, green packaging materials will be greatly developed, and packaging basic industry will also speed up the development.