The prospect of folding carton packaging

Folding carton, is a very popular green packaging container, it's not only widely used for packaging of medicines, food, cigarettes and crafts, but also for soft drinks, cleaning supplies, stationery, hardware products. Packaging folding carton has lots of characteristics such as low cost, convenient storage for a variety of printing and folding carton suitable for automatic packaging to facilitate the sale and display, recycling and environmentally-friendly. With further enhance the awareness of environmental protection. The folding cartons are widely used in the packaging of fruit juice, milk, cooked food, snacks, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and other products. Coupled with its tablet-like folding before stacking transportation and storage greatly reduces the spaces for storage and transportation costs. In recent years, it has made rapid progress. Folding carton has a low cost, convenient storage for a variety of printing methods to facilitate the sale and display, for automated packaging, it is conducive to environmental protection, as the people's living standards continue to improve, the folding carton demand will increase, and the production quality of the tray also put forward higher requirements.

According to research, the folding carton paperboard consumption is expected to annual growth of 5.7%, will reach 10 million tons by 2011. The growth of recycled paperboard will maintain the lead, which can be attributed to the growth of consumer demand for environmental friendly packaging materials. The report points out that in the end of 2010 at nearly 85% of the reputation packaging companies recognize it is very important to emphasis on environmental protection. The vast majority of these companies, 70 percent of companies recognize the consumer demand and the value of recycled paperboard carton packaging market is very important. In addition to the consumer appeal of green quality, recycled paperboard also overcomes the cardboard strength and printability issues, and then attracted the attention of the consumer goods company. Given the preference of consumers and the sales impact of the paper packaging, 1/3 of the users of many pure recycled paperboard think the cardboard is better than other types of packaging materials.

Folding carton manufacturers do not have to directly face the competitive pressures of the plastic manufacturers, but they can promote their carton packaging to promote their products. Plastic packaging market in 2004 spent millions of dollars for self-promotion and marketing, and the carton packaging market only have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. Carton packaging companies must make greater efforts to promote themselves, especially for young people, they need to do is still a lot of need for more coordinated efforts to let students in art colleges concerned about the carton packaging. Moreover, the carton processing enterprises can not simply only consider the sale of its packaging, should sell the entire packaging solution, good after-sales service and guarantee the quality of the packaging alone is insufficient to meet the needs of the market.

To keep the carton packaging company more competitive, it should widely use CAD, CAE, finite analysis, design optimization, reliability design, parallel design, the modular design of modern design methods with CAM, CNC, CAPP modern manufacturing technology,to improve equipment design and manufacturing standards. It is also need to promote the control and application of computer technology, online monitoring and display technology to adapt to multi-functional, highly reliable, easy operation, low-cost requirements, increasing equipment flexibility, adaptability.

With the awareness of environmental protection and the pursuit of "green packaging", folding carton as a paper packaging, the paper and paperboard production materials from natural and can be repeatedly recycled, even if the waste is not polluting materials to the environment; the shape of folding carton packaging is beautiful and diverse. Thus folding carton is a favorable packaging, there has a positive prospect of folding carton packaging.