There is a huge development space for the paper packaging industry in the future

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Overview of paper packaging industry

Understanding the meaning of commodity packaging includes two aspects: on the one hand, it refers to the container containing commodities, which is usually called packaging, such as boxes, bags, baskets, barrels, bottles, etc; On the other hand, it refers to the process of wrapping goods, such as packing, packing, etc. Commodity packaging has two characteristics: subordination and commodity. Packaging is an accessory of its contents. Commodity packaging is a special commodity attached to the contents, which has value and use value. At the same time, it is an important means to realize the value and use value of the contents.

In the typical mid stream industry, the application scenarios of paper packaging are diversified. Paper packaging is a typical midstream industry: its upstream is the paper-making enterprises that provide white board, white cardboard, cardboard, corrugated paper and other base paper; its downstream application fields are very wide, including electronic and electrical appliances, food and beverage, tobacco, medicine, daily cosmetics and other industries.

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Current situation of paper packaging

The scale of China's paper packaging market increased from US $50.5 billion in 2012 to US $63 billion in 2017, with an average annual compound growth rate of 4.4%. The scale of China's paper packaging market will maintain growth, and it is expected that the scale of China's paper packaging market will further exceed 65 billion US dollars by 2018.

Paper packaging is the largest category in the packaging industry. According to packaging materials, packaging products include paper packaging, plastic packaging, metal packaging, glass packaging and cork packaging. Due to the advantages of easy processing, low cost, suitable for printing, light weight, foldable, non-toxic, tasteless and pollution-free, paper packaging is currently the most widely used packaging material in the market. In 2017, the main business income of "paper and paperboard container manufacturing" industry was 331.087 billion yuan, accounting for 28.25% of the total main business income of the national packaging industry, with a year-on-year growth of 12.6%, ranking the highest among all packaging material sub industries.

The market concentration of paper packaging industry still has room for improvement. Due to the low threshold of industry access, the paper packaging market is still dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises. In recent years, due to the tightening of national supply reform and environmental protection policies, and the sharp rise of upstream paper price in 2017, some small and medium-sized paper packaging enterprises with weak bargaining power were closed down due to the impact of this round of cost rise. The number of paper packaging enterprises above the quota decreased from 4150 in 2005 to 2312 in 2017, and the paper packaging market as a whole showed a trend of increasing concentration. However, at present, the market share of the top four domestic paper packaging enterprises (Yutong technology, Hexing packaging, Jinjia and meiyingsen, respectively) is still less than 6%, which is significantly lower than that of developed economies such as the United States (Cr5 over 70%) and Australia (CR2 about 90%).

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"Plastic restriction order" promotes the development of paper packaging industry

In the 10th anniversary of the implementation of China's "plastic restriction order", the use of plastic packaging will be more strictly controlled. This year, as the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the "plastic restriction order", with the rise of express delivery, takeout and other industries that use a lot of plastic packaging, the effect of the "plastic restriction order" is gradually declining. According to the Research Report on the implementation of the plastic restriction order on the 10th anniversary of the first business issued by the social organization zero waste alliance, 78% of the shops surveyed stopped using non-conforming plastic bags. Therefore, in July this year, the law of the people's Republic of China on the prevention and control of environmental pollution by solid waste (Revised Draft) (Exposure Draft) solicited opinions from the public, and the pollution control of waste plastics is expected to be in accordance with the law. In the future, the control of plastic packaging represented by plastic bags will be more strict, which also provides alternative space for other packaging materials.

"Plastic restriction order" promotes the partial substitution of paper packaging for plastic packaging. Although plastic packaging has the advantages of waterproof, transparent, light and so on, "plastic restriction order" can not reduce its use in a large proportion, but paper packaging products have gradually penetrated into the field of plastic packaging products in daily life by virtue of its more environmentally friendly advantages. Many businesses have begun to provide paper bags to replace the original plastic bags, and Japan also reported in July this year that Japanese paper companies have developed a paper packaging material to replace plastic products. In addition, on April 27, 2018, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of quality and Technical Supervision issued the general technical requirements for paper bowls for catering service (Network) takeout (takeout), requiring some businesses to use coated paper bowls instead of other plastic products when delivering takeout. The requirements will be gradually extended to the whole city of Shanghai after the pilot projects in Changning, Pudong and Putuo districts. At present, paper packaging has entered the take away market, where plastic packaging is widely used. Although it will take time to achieve a certain scale of substitution, we can see the country's firm attitude towards "plastic restriction". In the future, the substitution of paper packaging for plastic packaging will be more in-depth, and the market space is worth looking forward to.

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Development trend of paper packaging industry

Low gram high strength is the future direction of food paper packaging. Cluster packaging is widely used in food packaging. Cluster packaging, also known as collective packaging, refers to the combination of a certain number of products to form a suitable packaging unit for loading, unloading, storage, transportation and sales. Cluster packaging has been widely used in developed countries in Europe and America, and has been widely used in beverage, beer, dairy products and other food fields. As China's sales patterns and shopping habits are increasingly in line with international standards, cluster packaging is more and more widely used to meet different packaging needs.

There are many kinds of fast food packaging paper, which need coating technology. Due to the variety of foods and the different packaging needs of different foods, there are many categories of food packaging paper products, which can be roughly divided into four categories: coated base paper / coated paper, hanging paper, plate pad paper and food paper base paper. As the paper containers are mostly filled with liquid drinks or oil permeable food, most of them need to go through the coating process before using the food packaging base paper.

Coated paper is an important material in fast food paper packaging. Coated paper is a composite material coated with plastic particles on the surface of paper. According to the production process, the coating materials used include PE (polyethylene), PP (polypropylene) and pet (poly (para benzene). Coated paper is widely used in fast food paper packaging to make paper cup and paper because of its relatively good waterproof and oil proof properties. Box, paper bowl, wrapping paper and other products.

The use of low ration fast food paper packaging is the future trend“ "Green, environmental protection" is the main theme of the paper packaging industry advocated by the state in recent years, which involves various subdivision fields of paper packaging. This year, the country revised the series of standards of "express packaging products", in which there are provisions on reduction, such as reducing the raw material quantity of express envelope paper from 250G / M and 300g / m to 200g / m. at the same time, as long as the selection of single and double corrugated materials meets the strength index, it is recommended to use low quantity and high strength raw materials. Although there is no clear regulation or guidance in the field of fast food paper packaging, it should be in line with the general trend of the whole packaging industry, and McDonald's and other enterprises have begun to reduce the amount of packaging. On the one hand, it reduces the use of wrapping paper, which is conducive to resource conservation and environmental protection; On the other hand, it can also reduce the cost of packaging enterprises and improve the profit level of the whole industry.