Packaging is a necessary condition for commodities to enter the circulation field, and packaging equipment is the main means to achieve commodity packaging. Packaging equipment manufacturers provide customers with diversified packaging equipment according to their personalized packaging process needs to meet their needs for automated production.
1. Background of the development of the packaging machinery industry
Packaging equipment integrates multi-field technologies such as mechanical processing, electrical control, information system control, industrial robots, image sensing technology, and microelectronics. Combined with the production process of downstream industries, it realizes the automation of a series of packaging processes such as molding, filling, sealing, labeling, coding, bundling, stacking, and winding. It has become one of the key factors for enterprises to improve production efficiency, reduce labor intensity, improve the working environment, save labor costs, optimize production processes, and achieve large-scale production.
Related report: Beijing Puhua Youce Information Consulting Co., Ltd. "2018-2025 China Packaging Machinery Industry Market Operation Situation Analysis and Investment Development Strategy Analysis Report" Since the 1960s, with the continuous emergence of new packaging materials, new processes, and new technologies, as well as the update of packaging needs in downstream industries, the global packaging machinery industry has continued to develop. From a domestic perspective, in the 1970s, through the introduction and absorption of foreign technology, China manufactured the first packaging machine. After more than 30 years of technological innovation, the packaging machinery industry has now become one of the top ten industries in the machinery industry.
In the early stages of the development of the packaging machinery industry, manual and semi-automatic traditional packaging equipment were the main focus, with low product automation, poor industry adaptability, and great restrictions on market promotion. With the rapid development of the national economy and the improvement of production automation requirements in various industries, the packaging machinery industry has developed rapidly, and packaging equipment has been widely used in food, beverage, medicine, chemical industry, machinery manufacturing, warehousing and logistics and other industries. Especially in recent years, affected by factors such as increasingly fierce market competition in downstream industries, large-scale and intensive production trends, and rising human resource costs, packaging equipment has played an increasingly important role in production and logistics. Highly automated, efficient, intelligent, and energy-saving packaging equipment has gradually been favored by downstream industries. Traditional packaging equipment has gradually been combined with fieldbus technology, transmission control technology, motion control technology, automatic identification technology, and safety detection technology, resulting in the emergence of modern intelligent packaging equipment.
2. Current status of the development of the packaging machinery industry
Modernized packaging equipment is a single-machine device and intelligent packaging production line that uses modern information technology for operation and control, reflecting the development requirements of high automation, mechatronics, and intelligence of packaging equipment. Compared with traditional packaging equipment, modern packaging equipment has the characteristics of fast beat and continuous production, strong production adaptability, and unmanned operation. It can also realize functions such as automatic identification, dynamic monitoring, automatic alarm, fault self-diagnosis, safety interlocking control, and automatic data storage, which is more in line with the needs of modern large-scale production.
Developed countries have carried out automation transformation. Packaging equipment is a necessary equipment for production. With the increase in labor costs and the strengthening of labor protection in developing countries (such as China), every factory is troubled by the employment problem of downstream packaging. Fully automatic and unmanned packaging is the development trend. With the use of various industrial control systems, it has also promoted the improvement of technology in the packaging field. The reduction of packaging costs is a research topic for each factory. The demand for packaging equipment is becoming more and more intense. Among them, the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, paper products, and chemical industries are the most important downstream markets for packaging equipment.
In recent years, driven by the continuous improvement of per capita consumption level and upgrading of consumer demand in my country, manufacturers in many industries such as food, beverage, medicine, chemical, paper products, etc. have seized development opportunities, continuously expanded production scale, and improved market competitiveness, providing effective guarantees for the rapid development of my country's packaging machinery industry.
3. Development trend of packaging machinery industry
In the next few years, the growth of packaging equipment sales in developing countries and regions will become the driving force for the development of global packaging equipment. As the largest developing country, China's demand for packaging equipment will constitute one of the world's largest markets; other underdeveloped countries and regions in Asia, such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, will also see a significant increase in market demand for packaging equipment; and in developed countries and regions such as the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, although the growth rate of market demand for packaging equipment is lower than that of developing countries, due to the large market base and strong demand for replacement, it is expected to continue to grow steadily in the future.
The packaging machinery industry directly serves the production process of enterprises and the storage and logistics links of product transfer to the consumer field, which is of great significance to the healthy development of the national economy. The independent research and development and industrialization of packaging equipment, especially high-end packaging equipment, has always been the development object encouraged by the national industrial policy, focusing on the direction of high efficiency, flexibility, large-scale, personalized and intelligent development.