Packaging has many functions such as protection of goods, convenience of circulation, convenience of consumption, promotion of sales, and promotion of added value. It has been increasingly used in modern society. Its downstream involves food, electronics, medicine, daily chemical, tobacco, household appliances, and electromechanical Such as national economy, all walks of life, is an integral part of commodity circulation. As a packaging manufacturing and consumer power, after more than 30 years of development, China's packaging industry has formed a paper, plastic, metal, glass, printing, machinery as the main component, Has a certain modern technology and equipment, more complete modern industrial system.
According to the different types of packaging materials, plastic packaging materials can be further divided into: flexible packaging films, plastic woven products, packaging boxes and containers, foam packaging materials, packaging sheets and other types.
Plastic packaging product classification
China's plastic packaging industry market size
China's plastic packaging industry has a large scale and has maintained sustained and steady growth in recent years. According to the “Analysis Report on Production and Sales Demand and Investment Prediction of Plastic Packaging Industry” published by the Industry Research Institute of Qianwang, the China plastic packaging industry realized sales revenue of 286.832 billion yuan in 2016. 8.02% year-on-year growth, compound growth rate of 7.94% in the past 5 years.
The main business income of plastic packaging industry during 2012-2016
China's plastic packaging industry segment main income
After more than 30 years of development, China's plastic packaging has initially formed a complete range of industries with considerable technological level and a certain scale. It has occupied an important position in the packaging market and has become one of the largest in China's plastics industry and packaging industry. In 2015, the enterprises above designated size in the packaging industry in China completed a total of RMB 1,136.548 billion in main business income, of which the main business revenue of plastic packaging (plastic film, plastic packaging and containers) accounted for 39.65% of the total.
Distribution of Main Business Income of Various Packaging Industry in China in 2015
During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, driven by steady advancement of new urbanization and consumption upgrades, the demand for petrochemical products will continue to grow at a relatively fast pace. In 2015, the urbanization rate in China was approximately 56%, and it is expected that by 2020, More than 60%, more than 50 million people will move from rural areas to cities. New urbanization and consumption upgrading will greatly promote energy, building materials, household appliances, food, clothing, vehicles, and daily necessities, which will drive demand for petrochemical products to continue to grow.
From 2016 to 2020, the added value of China's petrochemical and chemical industries will increase at an average annual rate of 8%. Plastic packaging has advantages such as low consumption of materials, light weight, ease of transportation, and chemical resistance. It is widely used in all kinds of pellets, powdered petrochemicals. Packaging of products and chemical raw materials; The continuous and steady growth of the petrochemical and chemical industries will create a broad market space for the upstream plastic packaging industry.
The lightweighting trend of plastic packaging is becoming more and more obvious
Lightweighting is a common industrial term in the current packaging field, that is, packaging is produced with fewer materials and weight is reduced for the packaging. Reducing the weight of the packaging helps to protect the environment and reduce costs. When a plastic package is successfully reduced in weight Afterwards, the use of resin materials in the process of plastic molding is reduced, not only effectively saving resources, reducing costs, but also effectively protecting the environment due to the reduction of waste after packaging.
National Industrial Policy Support
In recent years, the Chinese government has formulated a series of industrial policies to support and promote the development of the plastic packaging industry in the direction of high performance, high quality, and environmental protection.
Industry consolidation trend begins to appear
The number of plastic packaging enterprises in China is large, the output value of the enterprises above designated size accounts for a relatively small proportion of the total output value of the industry, the industry concentration is low, and most of the small and medium-sized enterprises lack core competitiveness. With advanced industries at the level of technological innovation, process manufacturing level, management With the continuous improvement of the level and financial strength, China's plastic packaging industry has emerged a trend of industry consolidation. As a traditional manufacturing industry with a more obvious scale effect, the dominant enterprises in the plastic packaging industry in China have begun to use modern capital to gradually achieve rapid expansion. , It will help China's plastic packaging industry become bigger and stronger, eliminate outdated enterprises that do not have the competitiveness of the industry, which will help improve the overall strength of China's plastic packaging industry, and promote the healthy development of the industry.