Development trends of packaging machinery
At present, the international packaging machinery market is highly competitive, and the overall trend of packaging machinery development is toward the “three highs” – high speed, high efficiency, and transformation.
The development focus tends to be reduced from this, with light weight, compact structure, small footprint, high efficiency, and the appearance of the model adapts to the environment and the psychological needs of the operators, and environmental protection needs. The following series of packaging machinery development status analysis and discussion of its future development trend.
Development status of foreign packaging machinery
The development trend of foreign packaging machinery reflects the progress of advanced packaging machinery, especially packaging machinery and equipment produced in countries such as Europe, America, Japan and other countries with developed technology and economy.
With the development of technology and commodity economy, its technology has been in a leading position in the world. In recent years, in order to meet the needs of modern commodity packaging, we have gradually developed multi-variety, small-batch general packaging technology and equipment, while keeping up with the pace of high-tech development, continuously applying advanced technology, developing and developing new modern special-purpose packaging mechanical.
American packaging machinery
The main users of the packaging machinery industry in the United States can be roughly divided into the food industry and the non-food industry. The food industry includes vegetables and fruits, meat, dairy products, bread, pastries, etc.; the non-food industry includes beverages, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and cigarettes.
By the first half of the 1980s, food and non-food accounted for roughly half the proportions. In recent years, the proportion of non-food industries has increased, especially in the beverage, electrical products, chemicals, and computer markets. Significantly. In food packaging, new technologies such as microwave and aseptic packaging can also be seen.
The American packaging industry has gradually established and formed a complete and independent industrial system including packaging materials, packaging technology and packaging machinery. Its automated operating procedures have been applied to more advanced packaging systems, representing the trend of advanced packaging systems.
Packaging machinery in the United States applies new technologies and automated packaging operations extensively. Companies in the United States are committed to seeking favorable packaging that is unique to the global market in terms of packaging materials, equipment, sales, etc., and are entering a new packaging world of mechatronics, laser scanning, radio frequency emission, nanotechnology and system simplification.
German packaging machinery
German packaging machinery occupies a very important position in the world, accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s total output value, and German packaging machinery exports account for about 30% of the world’s total. German packaging machinery ranks first in the world in terms of volume, manufacturing and technical performance of the productivity promotion center of the machine.
Its development trends are: first, to greatly improve the degree of process automation; second, to adapt to changes in the design of flexible and flexible equipment; third, to generally use computer simulation design technology. The complete set of beer and beverage packaging equipment produced in Germany has a fast production speed, a high degree of automation and good reliability.
Mainly reflected in: the automation of the process flow, high production efficiency, meeting the requirements of short delivery time and reducing process flow costs, and the equipment has higher flexibility and flexibility. It is mainly reflected in the flexibility of production, the flexibility of structure and the flexibility of supply to meet the needs of product upgrading.
The use of computer and simulation technology to provide a complete set of equipment, low failure rate, remote diagnosis services can be carried out, less environmental pollution, mainly including noise, dust and waste pollution.
Based on market research and market analysis, German packaging machinery is designed to serve customers, especially large enterprises, to provide complete sets of equipment based on user needs, to provide production companies with a structural and economical complete system plan, and to use computer simulation technology to demonstrate operations. Users, after obtaining user opinions, modify the model, and modify the model according to the customer’s opinions until the customer or the designer is satisfied.
Packaging Machinery in Italy
Italy is characterized by excellent performance, exquisite appearance and low price. Italy is the world’s fourth largest producer of packaging machinery and the second largest exporter of packaging machinery. Its packaging equipment is mostly used in the food industry, such as candy packaging machines, tea packaging machines, filling machines, etc.
Among them, packaging machinery in the Italian beverage and food industry accounts for about 40% of packaging machinery. This is because the Italian beverage industry has become the most interesting industry for equipment manufacturers. Since the 1990s, Italy’s packaging machinery exports to China have grown rapidly. In 2010, China has risen to the second place in Italy’s export rankings.
Today, Italy’s packaging machinery stands out globally. In Europe, Italy accounts for 25% of the entire European packaging machinery sales market, and is the second largest packaging machinery sales country after Germany. In the United States, Italy accounts for 19% of the market share. In Oceania and Africa, Italy is the largest supplier. It is also the largest supplier in Hong Kong, China Taiwan, India and Turkey.
Packaging Machinery in Japan
Since the 1960s, Japan’s demand for packaging machinery has soared and its production has developed rapidly. It has now occupied the leading position in the world’s packaging machinery industry, with packaging machinery sales ranking second in the world, second only to the United States. Japan divides packaging machinery into three categories, namely small packaging and inner packaging, outer packaging and packaging machinery, and supporting machinery (such as feeders, etc.).
Although Japan’s food packaging machinery is mainly small and medium-sized single machines, the equipment is small in size, high in precision, easy to install, easy to operate, and has a high degree of automation. Japanese packaging machinery mainly grasps two core technologies. One is the entry of computer technology into the field of packaging machinery, and the other is the development of packaging machinery driven by servo motors.
Successfully developed the world’s first microcomputer program-controlled horizontal forming, filling and sealing machine, and realized its practicality. Taking this as an opportunity, various packaging machines began to load microcomputers in a short time. After that, the world’s first heat-sealing machine equipped with heat pipes was successfully developed and put into practical use.
The equipment was provided to many packaging machinery manufacturers, which realized the low energy consumption of heat-sealing equipment and the improvement of quality and performance.The servo motor-driven packaging machinery developed in Japan has enabled the packaging machinery industry to realize a technological upgrade from mechanical devices to computer program control. The flexibility and systematization of mechanical properties have rapidly improved, making Japanese packaging machinery unique Sex has won a vast sales space in the world market.
Packaging machinery in China
my country’s packaging machinery has gradually developed since the industrial revolution, and has been gradually improved and developed. The scope of commodity circulation has been further expanded, and the scope of application of packaging machinery has become more extensive and its role has become more and more important.
The China Machinery Industry Federation predicts that from 2011 to 2015, the total output value of China’s food processing and packaging machinery industry is expected to exceed 600 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of about 16%. The food industry is a major application of packaging machinery products. With the development and growth of the food industry, food packaging machinery products have also entered a new stage of development. They have a pivotal position in the food industry. With the market demand, they are also pursuing deeper development of.
However, it cannot be ignored that the late start and rapid development of my country’s packaging machinery industry have resulted in a weak foundation for the development of packaging machinery in my country, low-grade products, and insufficient quality, safety, technology, and efficiency.
Packaging machinery in Taiwan
The packaging machinery industry in Taiwan has a history of more than 30 years. Under an export-oriented economic structure, the packaging machinery industry has accelerated growth and the demand for automation equipment has surged.
In recent years, the industry has undergone industrial transformation, and the industry has continuously changed its business patterns and made substantial improvements in food packaging machinery technology. The demand for various packaging machinery will grow rapidly in the next few years. There are 200 packaging machinery manufacturers in Taiwan.
Many Most of them are located in the central and northern regions, and most of them have a capital of less than S$50 million, and most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises with less than 30 employees. Because the production scale of the industry is generally too small, it is difficult to raise funds, technological transformation and attract talents.
The lack of technical personnel has led to long-term key components relying on foreign manufacturers; it is difficult to determine the quality of products. The eight-handed Nijia fruit can improve the mechanical performance of various types of machinery in the Gulf region. Imports of various types of machinery are still very promising in the next few years. If they can improve the mechanical performance
The company strives for improvement, has planned market development, and is committed to collecting market intelligence and strengthening after-sales service. There is still a lot of room for development in the future.
Problems and development trends
At present, there are about 7,000 enterprises engaged in the production of food and packaging machinery in my country, but more than 95%
Shangdu is a small and medium-sized enterprise, and there are only a few in the folk acacia industry with independent research and development capabilities. In economically developed areas such as high-end wrappers, many small companies in Beiwei are imitating the production and packaging machinery products of large packaging machinery companies.
Most small companies imitate the production of large packaging machinery companies Product, almost no innovation ability. However, my country’s packaging machinery has become increasingly fierce against foreign 0Ae machinery, and the future food packaging industry will continue to develop steadily.
The level of daily food tanks and trucks will be improved. The development of multi-functional and packaging machinery will cooperate with industrial automation to promote the improvement of the overall level of packaging equipment and the development of multi-functional, High-efficiency, low-consumption food packaging equipment.
According to forecasts by authoritative experts, the current global market demand for machinery and equipment is growing rapidly at an annual growth rate of 5.2%, and is expected to reach 39.8 billion US dollars by 2012. In the next few years, the market sales of packaging equipment in developing countries will exceed that of developed countries such as Japan and the United States.
Year 2010, the country’s demand for packaging machinery and equipment is approximately US$3.3 billion. According to the China Machinery Industry Federation, during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the scale of my country’s packaging machinery industry is expected to exceed 600 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 16%.
The packaging machinery with promising prospects in the United States is: horizontal pillow-type microcomputer-controlled packaging machinery equipped with a servo motor and a power control device with good film tension. In the future, microelectronics, computers, industrial robots, intelligent, image sensor technology and new Materials, etc., will be more and more widely used in packaging machinery, and packaging machinery is becoming more automated, efficient, and energy-saving.
Developed countries have incorporated nuclear energy technology, microelectronics technology, laser technology, biotechnology and systems engineering into traditional mechanical manufacturing technology. New alloy materials, polymer materials, complex new materials such as synthetic materials and inorganic non-metallic materials have also been promoted and applied.
Analysts pointed out that my country’s packaging machinery industry has a promising future, which is mainly reflected in two aspects.
Packaging machinery and equipment are widely used in food and beverage, medicine, electronics, tobacco and other fields. With the rapid development of food and beverage industries, the demand for related packaging equipment is also increasing.
In recent years, the market has placed higher and higher requirements on packaging machinery and equipment. At the same time, the country has also increased the supervision of the packaging industry and proposed new packaging technology. Requirements, some packaging equipment manufacturers have also increased investment in packaging machinery and technological innovation, which has injected new vitality into the development of packaging machinery industry.
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