How should the packaging industry break new ground? New Situation in "Packaging" to Improve Quality and Efficiency

The "Three Products" strategy guides industrial upgrading

In the packaging industry, "three products" refer to the variety, quality, and brand of packaging products. In 2018, the variety of packaging products will increase significantly, and the quality of packaging products will be significantly improved. Packaging product brands should increase their cultivation efforts.

In terms of packaging product varieties, we should focus on the supply side structural reform of the packaging industry, optimize the traditional product structure, expand the advantages of leading products, actively adapt to intelligent manufacturing models and diversified consumer needs, and enhance the ability to provide supporting services for consumer upgrading. By innovating design methods, production processes, and technological means, we will vigorously research and develop new packaging materials, products, and equipment, promote the increase of product varieties, and enhance our supply and service capabilities. At the same time, we will focus on developing green, reusable, and high-performance packaging materials, accelerate the development of networked, intelligent, and flexible packaging equipment, vigorously develop functional, personalized, and customized mid to high end products, and drive demand and consumption by enriching product varieties and optimizing product structures.

In terms of packaging product quality, enterprises should be guided to comprehensively improve the quality of packaging products from various aspects such as design, material selection, production, testing, and management. On the one hand, actively adopting low-cost and green production technologies, developing low weight, high strength, and functional paper packaging products, expanding the application scope of paper packaging, encouraging the use of environmentally friendly raw materials and additives to develop customizable environmentally friendly plastic packaging products, and enhancing the protection, quality assurance, and intelligent properties of plastic packaging products, On the other hand, advocating the production of metal packaging products using thin-walled metal and new materials such as coated iron and coated aluminum, to improve the utilization rate and corrosion resistance of metal packaging materials.

Packaging product brands should focus on the research and development of green packaging materials, intelligent packaging equipment, and high-end packaging products, and create a group of packaging materials, packaging equipment, and packaging product brands with high domestic market share and strong international market competitiveness.

Technological innovation enhances competitiveness

Solving the problems of improving the quality and efficiency of economic development is an important aspect of enhancing the competitiveness of the packaging industry. Its fundamental focus is on innovation, comprehensively enhancing the independent innovation, integrated innovation, introduction, digestion, absorption, and re innovation capabilities of the packaging industry, and focusing on breaking through common key technological bottlenecks.

Build an innovation system. Key implementation of the packaging industry innovation capability enhancement plan, guiding enterprises to establish a research and development funding investment mechanism, and effectively improving their original and integrated innovation capabilities, Optimize the allocation of scientific and technological resources, actively cultivate national level technology innovation centers in the packaging industry, and focus on building a number of technology innovation alliances, collaborative innovation centers, science and technology incubation bases for cutting-edge common technologies in the industry, as well as platforms for promoting and applying achievements, public technology services, technology and intellectual property transactions. At the same time, by establishing upstream and downstream technology cooperation bodies, industry collaborative innovation centers, and industry university research cooperation demonstration bases in the industrial chain, a mechanism for co cultivating and sharing innovative talents is formed.

Breakthrough key technologies. Develop systematic technical solutions around key technologies in the fields of green packaging, safety packaging, and intelligent packaging, and promote the incubation, application, and promotion of major scientific and technological achievements. Accelerate the establishment of a packaging cloud design database, focus on promoting reduction and ecological design, focus on strengthening the research and application of comprehensive recycling technology for packaging waste, and comprehensively improve the level of green packaging application and innovation, Key breakthroughs will be made in identifying and detecting harmful substances in food and drug packaging, significantly enhancing the safety assurance capabilities of food, drug, and military packaging, Pay attention to the combination of packaging design and information technology, and promote the intelligence of the production process.

Strengthen demonstration applications. Implement the high-end packaging product project, organize a batch of major special projects for packaging product design innovation, process optimization, and industrialization, actively develop materials such as lightweight high-strength paper, bio based high barrier plastics, corrosion-resistant ultra-thin metals, and lightweight energy-saving glass, and focus on developing personalized, customized, refined, and intelligent high-end packaging products, Implement the packaging industry informatization project, launch major special projects such as packaging big data and industrial cloud, promote key packaging informatization technologies such as smart labels and intelligent terminals, and carry out integrated innovation and engineering application demonstration of the deep integration of new generation packaging informatization and industrialization, Implement intelligent packaging equipment engineering, with a focus on developing major intelligent manufacturing complete sets of equipment such as food and drug automatic packaging production lines, packaging printing integrated manufacturing equipment, and modern logistics fully automatic packaging systems, and strive to promote the application demonstration of intelligent packaging factories/digital workshops.

Building a circular system for green production

For the packaging industry, practicing the green concept means implementing the overall requirement of "resolutely opposing excessive packaging" in the 13th Five Year Plan and the specific goal of "transforming traditional production into green production" in the guidance for the transformation and development of the packaging industry.

Develop green packaging materials, accelerate the independent research and development process of green and high-performance packaging materials, research and develop a batch of key materials to fill the domestic gap, and break through the application and industrialization bottleneck of green and high-performance packaging materials, Research and develop relevant standards for green packaging materials, establish an environmental evaluation system for the selection of packaging materials, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in green packaging materials, and gradually promote the non-toxic and harmless use of packaging throughout its entire life cycle, Advocate for packaging products to use the same material and reduce the use of composite materials that are difficult to classify and recycle.

At the same time, a series of environmentally friendly packaging materials for food and drugs with good compatibility with the interior are developed using biodegradable and recyclable materials as substrates to improve the safety of food and drug packaging. Breaking through the low-carbon preparation technology of industrial packaging materials, promoting new packaging materials with excellent comprehensive protective performance and renewable reuse, and enhancing the reliability of industrial packaging. In addition, it is necessary to promote the deep integration of military and civilian in the packaging material industry, and to promote the greening of packaging materials in special fields.

In addition, the packaging industry should promote simplification, reduction, reuse, and refinement of packaging design technologies, actively apply green packaging materials with high quality, low resource and energy consumption, minimal impact on human health and the environment, and easy recycling, Increase research and development efforts in key materials, technologies, equipment, processes, and products for green packaging, Vigorously promote the application of environmentally friendly composite technologies such as solvent-free and water-based adhesives, and advocate the use of advanced printing processes with low (no) VOC emissions such as flexible printing, Key development and promotion of waste plastic modification and recycling, waste (broken) glass recycling and reuse, separation of composite materials such as paper, aluminum, and plastic, as well as automatic identification, sorting, and deinking of waste paper (metal, plastic, etc.) for packaging waste recycling technology, promoting the greening of enterprise production methods. Therefore, we will strengthen the construction of packaging green manufacturing enterprises and park demonstration projects, build a number of green transformation demonstration bases, and form a group of key enterprises, large enterprise groups, and industrial clusters with strong leadership, significant radiation effects, and obvious competitive advantages.