RIGAO to Shanghai to attend "The seventeenth PROPACK China"

17 th PROPACK China in Shanghai new internationalexpo center was held on July 13, 2011 to July 15.

It is supported by China packaging federation, and it is also the only one which supported by Overseas big association. The content includes the Package processing equipment for food¡¢drink¡¢wine¡¢dairy products¡¢cosmetics and Pharmaceutical industry.

  Trend Analysis on Vacuum Packaging Machinery Development

Different varieties of plastic vacuum packaging are widely used everywhere. Vacuum packaging is light, provides good sealing, and preserves items against corrosion. Packaging can be used for many things, from rust-proofing to food and pharmaceutical preservation. Knitwear, precision manufacturing, metal processing, laboratories and a multitude of other industries all utilize vacuum packaging. This promotion has helped the development of plastic vacuum packing machines and has increased demand for better technology.

At present, current world vacuum packaging technology trends are mainly concentrated in the following areas:

High efficiency: High efficiency vacuum packaging machine production is experiencing quick development; hot forming sealing machines can reach a production rate of 500 pieces/min.

Single and multi-functional: Single machines can easily achieve multi-functional scope. Multiple functions must be used in order to achieve modular design. Functional modules are transformed and combined as suitable for different packaging materials, packaging goods, and packaging requirements of different types of vacuum packaging machines.

Adoption of new technology: In packaging methods, extensive use of gas packaging is being used to aid vacuum packing. In control technology, there is more use of computer technology and microelectronics. In the sealing area, the application of heat pipes and cold sealing technology is also being adopted. All of these new technologies make vacuum packaging machines more efficient and intelligent.

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   China's packaging machinery industry gradually get rid of the import

   Packaging machinery in China started late, after 20 years of development, China's packaging machinery has become one of Machinery Industry in ten industries, the rapid development of China's packaging industry to provide effective protection, and some packaging machinery to fill the gap, has been able to basically to meet domestic demand, some products are exported. But for now, China packaging machinery exports less than 5% of GDP, imports and output but probably very, very different from developed countries.

    China's packaging machinery manufacturing problems are: a lack of overall planning and macro; Second, the lack of capital investment, business investment for research and development accounts for less than 1% of the average level of sales; third is the lack of professional and technical personnel. Technology gap lies in the following areas:

    Compared with developed countries, China's packaging machinery industry products from the product structure, China's packaging machinery is only more than 1300 kinds of species, supporting a small number, the lack of products with high precision and large scale production can not meet the market demand: the performance gap between the product quality low performance, stability and reliability of the poor, unsightly appearance, surface roughness, and many parts of poor quality, short life, low reliability, affecting the overall quality of the product; from state enterprises see a lack of domestic packaging machinery industry leading enterprises production scale, small companies with high grade of products; from product development, China has basically stayed the test of imitation stage, develop their own weak, the lack of scientific research and production in the test base, research funding accounts for only 1% of sales, while abroad up to 8% ~ 10%.

    The technological level of China's packaging machinery from the overall look at the level of advanced countries in the overall look at branch surgery 20 years behind in product development, performance, quality, reliability, service and other aspects of a competitive disadvantage.

    According to relevant experts predict that China's packaging machinery production in 2005 will increase to 670 000 units (sets), 2010 to 93 million units (sets). However, only by increasing capital investment, expand production scale operations have been extensive development of the situation can not meet the needs of our packaging production has entered the adjustment of product structure and improve the ability of a new period of development, technology upgrades, industry and updating of management is the industry the development of an important issue.

    It is proposed that the product structure, should be market-oriented, change the current low-tech-based, low-competition situation, out of a group of high consumption and low efficiency, low-level low value-added, labor-intensive products, to development and production of high efficiency low consumption, production and marketing of large complete sets of equipment and the LO of high-tech products. in the packaging functions, industrial and agricultural products to be geared more refined and diversified, packaging machinery to move products with a single high-speed multi-polarization direction development; for candy packaging requires pillow, and shaped, the joint body, such products are required to complete a packaging machine products packaging.

    Technical performance, to other areas of advanced technology in packaging machinery, such as mechanical and electrical integration technologies, heat pipe technology, long-distance remote control technology, automatic flexible compensation, so that technical performance improved greatly.

    In manufacturing, the specialized production has become a trend. The international packaging machinery manufacturers have attached great importance to the whole packaging machinery and packaging systems for general ability, some common standard parts is no longer packaging machinery company, some of the special parts from Gaoduo Specification of production factories, packaging machinery companies are really in a sense, assembly plant.

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Analysis: UK paper packaging moves back into the fold

When the recent recession hit the UK, the paper-based packaging sector was already in a deep down-turn. Now, with significant investment in new capacity, things are looking up, says Simeon Goldstein

January was a month of highs and lows for paper-based packaging in the UK. The news that SAICA had given the final go-ahead for its £290m recycled paper mill near Manchester came days after Western Corrugated closed its doors after going into administration. The two events highlight very well the current situation of the sector as a whole; namely that while things are undoubtedly tough at the moment there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

If the recession was the story of 2009 it did not come as a surprise to many and in the case of paper-based packaging deepened what was already a downward pattern. UK mills produced around 4.3m tonnes of paper and board last year. While this 14% drop on 2008 represents a significant contribution to the total 31% reduction in the five years since 2004, Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) corrugated sector manager Andrew Barnetson is keen to point out that because the recession was not the start of the sector's problems it was, to some extent, better prepared for it.

"The paper and board packaging industry had been facing difficulties for some time before the recession hit and developed new strategies accordingly, such as point-of-sale displays and niche, high-value products such as cinema foyer stands," he says.

Nonetheless, UK capacity has been in decline for several years now and Barnetson says UK mills have closed because of rising energy costs, the regulatory burden and increasingly global markets that make it easier to import material. PricewaterhouseCoopers global forest, paper and packaging industry leader Clive Suckling also suggests the major reductions in board production in the UK are, in part, a reflection of bigger trends such as firms moving to lower-cost locations. "The big story for the past few years has been no plans for new capacity and existing capacity struggling to get to grips with lighter-weight materials," he says.

New capacity
This situation is now beginning to change, with the SAICA investment and DS Smith's Kemsley mill in Kent leading the way by bringing some much-needed new UK capacity and using state-of-the-art machinery to produce the lighter-weight materials that the market is demanding. New capacity also has a knock-on effect on the environment as it means more recovered material can be recycled in the UK.

"The vast majority - some 90% - of the raw material we use is recovered fibre and, as we've lost capacity, we've lost the ability to recycle domestically," says the CPI's Barnetson. As paper collections have increased, recovered paper exports have risen by 72% in the past five years because of the lack of capacity to deal with it here.

But, despite the positive mood in terms of production, use of paper is still falling, albeit broadly in line with what is produced. UK paper and board consumption has dropped by 19% in the past five years - by 10% in 2009 alone. Although the sector is generally confident about the stability of consumer packaging for food and drink and some recovery for industrial and general transit packaging, it is calling for more government support for manufacturing as a whole. "Everybody has an issue with a declining manufacturing sector; government support would mean more demand for UK packaging. Further support for recycling would mean a double whammy of increased requirements for paper and the capability to actually use it," says Barnetson.

World-class facilities
The CPI is keen to paint a positive picture and, as Barnetson says, the situation is far from bleak as mills return to the UK. "Yes, the numbers are down, but that is the society we are playing in," he says. Increased UK capacity could also benefit from the current weakness of the pound, particularly compared to the euro.

PwC's Suckling says that capacity has been lost across the continent and what is left can vary in terms of age of machines and product. Investment in world-class production facilities, such as SAICA's site in Manchester, could provide enough capacity for UK firms to export as well.

"I think that the situation is, in some ways, more positive for the UK than for the rest of Europe. There is definitely room for the new capacity and it could prove to be an attractive export location for the eurozone," he says. "There's also the fact that major structural change has already happened and those firms who might look to leave the UK to take advantage of lower-cost economies will have done so already."

The future for the UK's paper packaging industry seems solid, particularly if a new government gives manufacturing a much-needed boost. If that happens, it should help bring the light at the end of the tunnel that bit closer.

UK 2009 PAPER AND BOARD STATISTICS
In tonnes (% change on 2008)
Consumption (-10%)
2009 11.5m
2008 12.78m
Production (-14%)
2009 4.3m
2008 5m
Collected for recycling (-7%)*
2009 8.1m
2008 8.7m
UK reprocessing (-6%)
2009 3.8m
2008 4.04m
Export reprocessing (-8%)
2009 4.5m
2008 4.9m

*While the quantity collected fell, it rose as a percentage of the amount consumed to 78%

From:www.printweek.com

Glass recycling rates rise as Friends of Glass campaign gathers pace
Jill Park, packagingnews.co.uk, 05 January 2010

European glass recycling rates rose to 65% in 2008, according to new research by The European Container Glass Association (Feve).

An estimated 25.5 billion glass bottles and jars were recycled in Europe in 2008, Feve has revealed.

Feve president Dominique Tombeur said the data confirmed that a number of EU countries had "reached the ambitious 60% collective target fixed by the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive".

According to Feve, Belgium and Sweden are close to recycling 100% of glass bottles and jars put on the market.

In May 2009, Feve launched a campaign featuring a cartoon called Hank 'the singing bottle' to promote glass recycling using the 'I'll be back' line made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1980s movie, The Terminator.

Feve communications and operations manager Michael Delle Selve told Packaging News that the campaign had had a positive effect on consumers and that the organisation was launching a new online campaign.

Feve is contacting its online network of Friends of Glass, which includes Facebook members, to ask them to make a new year's resolution to buy a particular product in glass for the year.

Glass devotees can even sign a petition to mark their commitment.

Energy efficiency in packaging machinery design

Energy efficiency in packaging machinery begins with a mechatronic approach.

Streamlining mechanical drive systems reduces inertias that take extra energy to overcome.

Faster control system response can eliminate the practice of oversizing motors. Reducing or eliminating compressed air can yield major savings. Reducing heat and shock loadings saves energy. Tightly synchronizing machines increases efficiency. Smoother operation, reduced travel distance, centralized lubrication¡­the list goes on.

When pneumatics cannot be eliminated -- most often the case in product gripper applications -- consider venturi-type vacuum pumps that generate vacuum at each gripper rather than holding vacuum over long distances from a centralized mechanical pump.

Heat is another form of waste energy that can use up additional power to dissipate, such as control cabinet fans and air conditioning. An easy solution is to replace cabinet-mounted drives with the popular integrated motor/drive modules distributed out on the machine.

Smooth operation is a virtue of servo machines, and specifically continuous motion versus intermittent motion designs. By eliminating the shock of mechanical drivetrains on a main lineshaft engaging and disengaging from a large motor, multiple servos divide up the work and reduce the amount of brute force required.

It¡¯s all about doing more with less. And it probably always has been, but now it¡¯s better recognized that heavier doesn¡¯t mean better in terms of machine construction.

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Future Food and Drinks Packaging: Emerging ethical, food safe and convenient formats

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Future Food and Drinks Packaging
Emerging ethical, food safe and convenient formats

Food and drinks packaging is in a period of rapid change; growth economies such as China and India are generating considerable opportunities for packaging manufacturers. In more mature economies, greater expendable income levels coupled with demographic shifts and a demise in cooking skills, have led to increased demand for more conveniently packaged food and drinks formats. A major force in packaging innovation is green packaging. This has been driven by legislation, combined with consumer and retailer pressure.
Future Food and Drinks Packaging is a new management report published by Business Insights that offers a comprehensive overview of the major trends within the packaging industry today. It profiles major innovations within food and drinks packaging, including the latest technologies and materials. It also delivers an overview of competitor activity and an assessment of the strength of trends and market forces moving forward.
Discover the key trends impacting the food and drinks packaging market and understand how these are changing packaging design with this new report...

This new report will enable you to...
? Gain insight into the most up to date packaging technologies including nanotechnology, natural polymers and edible coatings, and evaluate the pros and cons of these new packaging technologies and decide whether these may be appropriate for your organization.
? Enhance your product development strategies with this report¡¯s analysis of green, convenient and supply chain efficient packaged food and drinks product launches by region, category and material.
? Understand how regulations are influencing NPD and discover how competitors are responding to new challenges set by these regulations with this new report.
? Identify the key trends in food and drinks packaging and the impact that they are expected to have on the food and drinks market in the future.

Your questions answered...
? What major trends are impacting food and drinks packaging development?
? How are companies using green packaging materials to lend credibility to their ethical policies?
? What innovative materials are being used within food and drinks packaging?
? What has prompted the rise in tamper evident packaging and what could future tamper evident packaging legislation look like?
? How is nanotechnology being used in food and drinks packaging?
? What are the new innovations in supply chain efficient packaging?
? How has extended shelf life packaging impacted the food and drinks industry and what has it enabled?

Some key findings from this report...
? Innovation in packaging materials continues apace with particular development in green technologies such as packaging made from natural polymers and oxydegradable additives. In addition nanotechnology is now a key part of new material development. Nanotechnology can improve barrier qualities and make packaging lighter, stronger and more resistant to heat.
? Non-malicious food contamination is an international health concern. The World Health Organization estimates 3.2m children under the age of five die from food poisoning related illnesses each year. Innovative solutions to reduce the risk of non-malicious contamination are being developed by packaging manufacturers in the form of ¡®Smart¡¯ and ¡®Active¡¯ packaging.
? An ageing population in China, Japan, the US and Europe is driving demand for products suited to the older consumer, including easy grip and easy open packaging as well as smaller portion sizes for consumers with smaller appetites.
? Major retailers in Europe and the US have developed their own Corporate Responsibility Strategies and have set targets for the reduction in packaging waste. Wal-Mart has committed to a 5% reduction in packaging worldwide by 2013. UK retailer Marks & Spencer¡¯s, has committed to a 25% reduction in waste by 2012.

Key issues examined by this report...
? Environmental packaging regulations are heavily influencing packaging development in Europe and Japan. In Europe, Packaging Directive 2004/12/EC sets out recycling and recovery targets to be met by 2008. In Japan, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has enacted legislation based on the 3R¡¯s ethos (Reduce, Re-use, Recycle). As a result there are high levels of innovation in green packaging including lightweight and bio-based packaging materials.
? Emerging markets are spurring demand for packaging. As economies such as Eastern Europe, India, South America and China experience growth and average incomes increase, the demand for Western style packaged goods is increasing.
? Socio-demographic shifts are creating demand for more convenient packaging solutions. Ageing populations in the US, Europe and Japan are placing new demands on packaging design. Easy open, easy grip and smaller portion sizes are all being developed with ageing populations in mind. More fragmented family lives, the growth in the number of women working, growth in single person households and a loss of cooking skills are all contributing to increased demand for more conveniently packaged food formats.

Plastic Packaging Products
Every day our lives are touched by plastic packaging products.  These are some of the more common packaging products organized according to their plastic type.

PET (polyethylene terphthalate) beverage containers, food containers, boil-in food pouches, processed meat packages.

HDPE (high density polyethylene) milk bottles, cereal box liners, detergent bottles, oil bottles, margarine tubs, toys, plastic bags.

PVC (polyvinyl chloride) food wrap, vegetable oil bottles, blister packaging.

LDPE (low density polyethylene) shrink-wrap, plastic bags, garment bags, dry cleaning bags, squeezable food bottles. 

PP (polypropylene) margarine and yogurt containers, caps for containers, wrapping to replace cellophane, medicine bottles. 

PS (polystyrene) egg cartons, fast food trays, disposable plastic silverware, cups, compact disc jackets.

  After the First World War, improvements in chemical technology led to an explosion in new forms of plastics.  Among the earliest examples in the wave of new plastics were "polystyrene" (PS) and "polyvinyl chloride" (PVC), developed by the I.G. Farben company of Germany.

Polystyrene is a rigid, brittle plastic that is now used to make plastic model kits, disposable eating utensils, and similar knickknacks.  It would also be the basis for one of the most popular "foamed" plastics, under the name "styrene foam" or "styrofoam."  Foam plastics can be synthesized in an "open cell" form, in which the foam bubbles are interconnected, as in an absorbent sponge, and "closed cell," in which all the bubbles are distinct, like tiny balloons, as in gas-filled foam insulation and floatation devices.

PVC has side chains incorporating chlorine atoms, which form strong bonds.  PVC in its normal form is stiff, strong, heat and weather resistant, and is now used for making plumbing, gutters, house siding, enclosures for computers and other electronics gear, and compact-disk media.  PVC can also be softened with chemical processing, and in this form it is now used for shrink-wrap, food packaging, and raingear.

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With the development of the national economy and people's rising living standards, China's condiments industry has developed rapidly, especially the spices. It has already developed into a diversified industry. The packaging machinery industry has also experienced diversified trends. The current market is led by a variety of low-priced seasoning pouches. In major supermarkets, a few grams of packaged seasoning, including chicken, hot pot seasoning, fine sugar, can be found displayed in conspicuous places, and sales have been showing an upward trend.

Cluster-type

Cluster package, also known as shrink-wrapping for powdered seasoning and liquid seasoning has become a quality, inexpensive and easy-to-carry item. The market bag packaging and bottling of the cluster package is also very common.

Transparent

In the condiment market, transparent plastic packaging has become a trend. And transparent PP resins, for their excellent price-performance ratio, are the most widely used packaging materials. The PP is more transparent and has a high degree of shine, by adding a clearing reagent. Many food manufacturers have switched to using such a transparent PP, which brings certain economic benefits.

Savvy consumers tastes have made seasoning with fresh, fragrant, and spicy products popular. And coupled with packaging design originality, giving a strong visual impact, the shapes are become more and more beautiful, making for a better, more innovative future.

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