After New Year's Day, 2017 will come to an end.What is the plastic packaging industry going through since 2017? According to the IK survey by the German Plastic Packaging Association, plastic packaging manufacturers in Germany consider 2017 to be one of the most optimistic economic developments Year, these companies also had a more positive assessment of turnover and exports for the first three months of 2017. However, 70% of the companies questioned the results for this survey, and another 30% were satisfied with the results Regardless of the true or false of the survey, let's look at the key words of the plastic packaging industry in 2017. What are the key words?
Expand production capacity
According to the German plastic packaging association IK survey, plastic packaging industry in 2017 is a more optimistic year, if more optimistic, then the natural market demand, companies naturally have to expand.
Amcor Rigid Plastics, a Michigan-based global plastics conglomerate, Amcor, expanded its plastic packaging manufacturing facility in Ohio for about $ 40 million to produce prefabricated plastic containers.
And Ann O 'Hara, Amcor vice president of multi-product business, said she was fortunate enough to invest in the plant, which would greatly boost her business.
Merger and acquisition
Blaige & Co., a Chicago-based financial firm that deals primarily in plastics, packaging and chemicals, said the president said package M & A was a record year for trading volume and trading dollar value in 2016. Plastics propelled mergers and acquisitions, accounting for M & A activities 70% -75%.
This year, the plastic packaging industry did a lot of mergers and acquisitions.For example: the British plastics packaging group RPC for 6.4 billion US dollars to buy the US packaging company Letica, and no debt; Mondi group (3800 Million Euros Acquired Excelsior, British consumer packaging company ...
Industry Alliance
'Chopsticks principle', presumably we are no stranger to a chopsticks easily be broken, and a chopsticks how you break it is difficult to break, and this is the 'chopsticks principle' for businesses, especially small businesses Even so, Baotuan development is a good choice for them.
On September 27, 2017, the Liaoning Export Industry Alliance for Plastic Packaging Products was set up in Yingkou City and 33 plastic packaging export enterprises became members.In recent years, the plastic packaging industry in Yingkou has been developing rapidly with more small, medium and micro enterprises, initially forming the design, Tung Shing Group is the backbone of the industry, with the ability to provide small and medium-sized enterprises with full service and market channels of financing, technology, modern management, scientific research, law and so on, while small and medium-sized and micro-enterprises Tung Shing Group has provided huge capacity, the industry alliance will build R & D team to share research and development achievements, reduce costs, complement each other and jointly develop the market.
VOCs governance
Relevant data show that the packaging and printing industry emits about 1 million tons of VOCs per year, especially in the plastic flexible packaging industry. The use of solvent-based inks and adhesives in the printing and compounding processes is particularly prominent, accounting for about 100% of the total emissions of packaging and printing industries The total amount of about 70% Therefore, the comprehensive management of VOCs in the packaging industry is imperative.
Green packaging
Relevant reports in early November showed that "the implementation plan of promoting the green packaging of the courier industry" has been promulgated. Next, the NDRC will also adjust the relevant policies and prepare for the study and adjustment of the 'plastic limit orders' , Take-out and other industries take the lead to limit a series of non-degradable plastic packaging related to the implementation of the program, and urged local governments, especially cities to intensify its implementation.
Smart packaging
Smart packaging is a hot topic in the current industry. The smart label developed by a company in Beijing provides a powerful driving force for smart packaging. This technology is based on big data that products deteriorate under abnormal storage and transportation conditions and can monitor products in logistics and The quality of the product in the sales process and the temperature and time inside and outside the package.Customers can visually recognize whether the quality of the product is fresh or deteriorated by changing the color from green to red to avoid the potential safety hazard of the current printed date label. The smart labels will be applied to the upstream and downstream of the cold chain to track and monitor the quality of various common perishable products such as food and beverages, pharmaceutical vaccines and cosmetics, etc., from the production to transportation to the use of the whole monitoring.
Bioplastic packaging
As the global economy transitions to a low-carbon and recycling economy, as well as increasing support for bioeconomic policies and consumer awareness of sustainable products and packaging, a series of factors will drive the market demand for bioplastics. The association said the global bioplastic production capacity is expected to increase from about 2.05 million tons / year in 2017 to about 2.44 million tons / year in 2022. The packaging industry is still the largest application area for bioplastics, accounting for nearly 60% of the market demand in 2017 This shows the strong market potential of bioplastic packaging.