Corrugated box processing future development trend

As China's accession to the WTO, the world's processing and manufacturing center of gravity shifted to China. China's packaging industry, especially the corrugated paper box industry, has experienced rapid development. China's corrugated paper production ranks second in the world, but we still have many areas that need improvement and development.

Combined with the development situation at home and abroad, the future development trend of corrugated box processing is as follows:

1. The development of products to fully play the role of packaging
With the development of economy and the improvement of packaging requirements for commodities, corrugated boxes need not only play a functional role of protecting commodities, saving costs, facilitating storage and transportation, and facilitating measurement, but also have the effect of beautifying commodities, guiding consumption, and increasing the added value of added value. It is required to demonstrate the charm and effect of packaging and promote the sale of goods.

2. Production equipment to high-grade, international development
The development of the corrugated box industry needs to rely not only on the development of the national economy, but also on the improvement of the level of technical equipment. The corrugated paper box industry in developed countries has already eliminated stand-alone machines and single-sided machines. Instead, it is a linkage production line. This is also the development direction and inevitable trend of China's corrugated paper processing industry. Nowadays, the corrugated paper production line is also accelerating its replacement and development towards high speed, high efficiency, wide width, low consumption, no pollution, computer control, and multi-functionality. Nowadays, the printing slot machine that belongs to the downstream process has also become a key device. It plays a crucial role in the promotional value-added function of the carton, and must have excellent technical performance towards high-grade, fast, multi-color, wide-width, self-control. The direction of development. The main task of China's carton machinery manufacturers:

2.1 To learn from the experience of international advanced equipment technologies, processes, processing and manufacturing, and material applications, to improve their own manufacturing standards, and gradually catch up with international standards;

2.2 Produce high-end, high-speed, high-efficiency, high-precision, wide-format high-tech advanced carton equipment, and appropriately limit low-grade, low-speed, high-efficiency and low-efficiency equipment;

2.3 In the face of the rapid development of foreign micro-cartons, folding or special-shaped cartons, and the actual needs of China, we must increase development efforts to develop micro-corrugated roller and folding special-shaped box equipment, as well as supporting computer design and proofing equipment.

3. The production model gradually implements centralized system decentralized manufacturing

The centralized and decentralized manufacturing system reflects the specialized division of labor and cooperation in socialized production, which is conducive to industrial restructuring and upgrading, can increase the utilization rate of corrugated production equipment, and is in line with the complementary advantages of market economy, common development, and the law of survival of the fittest. The division of labor in the industry has overcome the “small and complete” production model, which not only can exert the good quality of the large-scale production line, increase the operating rate of the advanced equipment, but also give play to the advantages of fast turnaround, small-batch, multi-species, etc. Reduced paper loss. This will help improve the economic benefits of both parties and achieve a win-win situation. Strong corrugated paper processing companies should be able to provide medium and small enterprises with semi-finished corrugated board products.

4. Corrugated paper to low weight, high strength, lightweight development
With the increasing demand for carton packaging quality by users, the use of low-weight, high-strength, lightweight corrugated cardboard boxes has become more and more widespread. At present, the development of a variety of fine corrugated (G, N) and production of low basis weight corrugated paper makes the quantitative decrease of corrugated board obvious, and the lowest in foreign countries is 500 g/m2. In the past, corrugated cardboard could only be printed on a flexographic printing press. To obtain the offset printing effect, only the preprinting process was used. The micro-tanned corrugated board can be directly printed on the offset press, and the situation that the corrugation is not deformed to reduce or destroy the strength of the cardboard does not occur, and the packaging design can be more flexible and diverse, and the printing quality is more exquisite. Miniature corrugated cardboard will gradually replace solid folded cardboard. The consumption potential of domestic high-strength corrugated paper is still very large. We should vigorously and actively develop domestic production of high-strength corrugated paper and reduce the number of imports.

5. Accelerate the development of flexible multi-color dot printing to realize the beauty of carton packaging

Domestic corrugated carton transport packaging has been developed for the sales of goods packaging. Now, packaging printing on the surface of the box is not just printing simple logos, but it is increasingly taking on the functions of advertising, packaging, and promotion of the products. Therefore, the printing of corrugated boxes must be gradually advanced, high-quality, and multi-colored. The direction of visual effects is strong. Color dot printing is the direction of corrugated carton printing, and because of its bright colors, good gloss, and beautiful appearance, the whiteboard cow card will be increasingly used to replace the most commonly used liner cow cards. Flexo printing technology uses watermark ink printing, with fast drying, environmental protection; equipment is simple, easy to operate, easy to form a production line; printing quality is gradually close to offset printing quality, wide range of substrates and other advantages. The foreign experience has already proved that flexo printing can print high-grade prints completely, but it must have corresponding equipment and corresponding plates, raw and auxiliary materials as well as mature processes and high-level operators. (to be continued)