China's packaging machinery industry needs to work hard to get out

In today's market, there are a wide variety of consumer products and the competition is becoming more and more intense. The producers of consumer goods are not only striving to improve their internal strength and quality, but are also more concerned with the improvement and diversification of packaging. According to statistics from related departments, in 2010, China's packaging machinery production will probably increase to 930,000 units (sets), but it is difficult to meet the needs of the development of the industry because of the extensive operation of increasing capital investment and expanding production scale. For the packaging machinery and equipment industry with large market demand and high technical difficulty, it is the key to enhancing the technological level and self-sufficiency of Chinese packaging by concentrating the strengths of the industry and taking the road of combining production, learning and research.

After more than 20 years of development, the Chinese packaging machinery industry and packaging production have entered a new era of adjusting product structure and improving development capabilities. Faced with the huge demand of the world market, China's packaging machinery companies actively learn advanced foreign experience, diligently practice "internal strength," and increase their ability to independently innovate in order to remain invincible in the fiercely competitive international market.

World market demand

At present, the global demand for packaging machinery is growing at a rate of 5.3% annually. The United States has the largest producer of packaging equipment, followed by Japan, and other major producers are from Germany, Italy and China. Currently, the fastest growing production of packaging equipment is in developing countries and regions.

It is understood that the total output value of the US packaging industry accounts for 3% of the national economy's total output value. Its largest use of packaging machinery industry is the food industry, followed by the beverage industry, household cleaning products and cosmetics industry, medical supplies and the tobacco industry. In the US food industry, vegetables and fruits account for the largest share of food machinery each year, while food processing machinery imported from the United States comes mainly from Germany, Mexico, Canada, and China.

In Russia, the machinery manufacturing industry is far from meeting the needs of industries such as agricultural products processing and food production. It is understood that the Russian packaging machinery has a market capacity of 5 billion to 7 billion U.S. dollars per year, but Russian manufacturers only have a 20% share, and these manufacturers mainly produce semi-automated equipment and are currently unable to meet Russian packaging. The overall needs of the industry.

In Asia, the Vietnamese market is increasingly demanding for complete sets of processing equipment for food machinery such as food slicers, mixers, and filling machines, especially in fruit processing equipment. Vietnam produces a wealth of tropical fruits, with an annual output of more than 3.8 million tons, but the fruit processing technology is backward, resulting in exports still dominated by fresh fruit. It is understood that Vietnamese consumers have always had a strong awareness of Chinese food processing and packaging machinery. Therefore, Chinese companies can consider seizing opportunities to develop the Vietnamese market, exporting food processing machinery and packaging equipment to the country or setting up factories there.

Chinese companies must also study diligently

China's packaging machinery industry started relatively late. After more than 20 years of development, it has become one of the top ten industries in the machinery industry, providing an effective guarantee for the rapid development of the packaging industry. Facing the ever-increasing demand of the world packaging machinery market, Chinese enterprises can only “see the fire across the shore”; in the face of strong foreign packaging machinery manufacturing companies, the Chinese packaging machinery industry must also work hard to learn.

Compared with foreign countries, the gap in China's machinery manufacturing level is mainly reflected in the technology. The technological power of the enterprise itself is dependent on production. Therefore, the development research is faced with the limitations of scientific research technology and laboratory equipment. However, a new technology cannot be directly applied to production without the prior development of the scientific research institute. The development of cutting-edge technologies requires both intellectual input and equipment investment. Enterprises are reluctant to invest, and scientific research institutions lack strength. If things go by in the long run, the gap between China and the international advanced level will increase. In order to adapt to the fierce competition in the market, the cycle of replacement of packaging products is getting shorter and shorter. The technological innovation capability is weak, the progress of process technology is slow, and the new product development has not fundamentally escaped the imitation situation, making it impossible for companies to cope with the changes in the situation and the competitiveness is not strong.

In this regard, industry experts believe that the excessive dependence of Chinese packaging machinery on foreign high-end technology has become a serious constraint to the development of China's packaging equipment industry. The country is still at the stage of learning as a whole and lacks the experience of flexible application. Therefore, it is an inevitable trend for the domestic packaging equipment industry to take the road of independent innovation. The development trend of the packaging machinery industry in the future is that the equipment is smaller, more flexible, more versatile, and more efficient. Chinese companies must take a new starting point to examine and solve problems, change their development concepts, increase market awareness, further improve processing technology and precision, and rapidly catch up with advanced world standards with a more perfect appearance and a stable manufacturing level.