Metal packaging refers to various thin-walled packaging containers made of thin metal plates for different purposes. It is an important part of China's packaging industry.
Since the reform and opening up, the metal packaging industry has continued to develop, including printed iron cans, aluminum cans, steel drums, bottle caps, bottle stoppers, aerosol cans and other comprehensive metal packaging systems, which have become an important category of China's packaging industry. The classification of metal packaging products is rich, covering multiple application areas. The reason why metal packaging has become an important part of the industry, and its output value accounts for about 10% of the total output value of my country's packaging industry, because it has packaging methods that cannot be replaced by other packaging, such as strong Variety of charms, such as performance, airtightness, and metal ornamentation. It can be used to provide packaging services for food, beverages, candy, medicine and different types of gift packaging.
Compared with other packaging powerhouses such as Europe and the United States, my country's metal packaging industry still has a certain amount of room for development. For example, in the United States in 2006, the sales of metal containers including metal cans and metal lids amounted to more than 16 billion U.S. dollars. The equivalent per capita consumption of metal packaging is about 420 yuan, while the per capita consumption of metal packaging in my country during the same period is only about 30 yuan. From the perspective of the specific product of beverage cans, my country's annual per capita consumption is only 17 cans. Compared with the 380 cans in the United States, the domestic consumption and use of metal cans still have great potential.
Metal packaging materials have excellent comprehensive properties, are rich in resources, convenient to recycle, and have very little pollution. Therefore, metal packaging still maintains its vitality. The most important thing is that it is different from other packaging materials, it can ensure the relative safety and long-term quality of the packaging. The fundamental reason why metal can guarantee the quality of the packaged materials is its high stability, and stability has a very important impact on the storage of goods and even the logistics field. At the same time, the use of metal materials as packaging has relatively high strength and certain rigidity, and can also be superimposed to enhance the display effect of items on the counter; at the same time, the metal packaging is not easy to be damaged in the logistics process, so generally no additional The outer packaging is used for secondary reinforcement. Another feature of metal materials is performance. The opening failure rate of metal packaging is only one in a million, which has obvious advantages compared with the opening success rate of other packaging materials in terms of reliability. Moreover, the use efficiency of metal packaging is also very high, and the filling speed of metal cans for beverages can reach several times that of other packaging materials, which greatly improves the efficiency of filling.
The water vapor transmission rate of metal is very low, completely opaque, and can effectively avoid the harmful effects of ultraviolet rays. Its gas barrier properties, moisture resistance, light-shielding properties and fragrance retention greatly exceed those of other types of packaging materials such as plastic and paper. Therefore, metal packaging can maintain the quality and shelf life of goods for a long time as long as 3 years, which is particularly important for food packaging. And in such a fast-paced era, metal packaging provides people with greater convenience. Metal packaging containers are widely welcomed in daily life because they are not easily damaged and are easy to carry. For example, the combination of beverage and food cans and easy-open lids is nowadays. In daily use, consumers pursue convenience and speed, but they pay more attention to product safety. The main reason why the metal packaging industry can occupy a place in the fierce packaging market competition is that it captures the psychology of consumers and consumer needs, and develops and innovates in response to this demand, thus winning the majority of consumers Welcome.
Packaging materials such as polymer materials, paper materials, and glassware are in people’s consciousness. It is very difficult to ensure the safety of packaged products because of their relatively light weight and the abuse of additives. There are many unsafe hidden dangers such as damage, leakage, and contamination by toxic agents. The metal packaging, to improve this shortcoming, it can completely protect the contents. Especially in food packaging, it can ensure the original flavor of the food.
At present, there are more than 1,000 metal packaging companies with a certain scale in my country. More than 500 have annual sales of more than 5 million yuan. The total output value of the metal packaging container industry is approximately RMB 25 billion. In recent years, the metal packaging industry has maintained a stable, healthy and sustainable development momentum, basically maintaining an average annual growth rate of about 7%.
After considerable development, metal packaging has formed a complete industrial system and categories. However, compared with the international developed countries, compared with the social development and national economic growth, and the requirements of continuous changes and upgrades in export packaging, the quality, new product technology There is still a big gap with foreign countries in terms of content, technology development level, metal packaging scale layout, and talents, and there are still many shortcomings, mainly:
1. The scale of enterprise development is not economical: metal packaging enterprises are mainly small and medium-sized, with low industrial concentration, and a world-class metal packaging enterprise group with outstanding main business, independent intellectual property rights and core competitiveness has not yet formed. The metal packaging industry compared with other packaging industries, it is still in a growth stage. At present, my country's 1,400 metal packaging companies consume 1.4 million tons of tinplate annually. There are less than 60 companies with more than 10,000 tons of tinplate, accounting for only 4%. The average annual consumption of tinplate per company is only 1,000 tons.
2. Homogeneous competition and insufficient innovation capabilities: In the field of metal packaging, we are accustomed to attaching importance to packaging manufacturing and investment. The gap is huge. From the perspective of industrial benefits, the current average annual unit tinplate consumables for metal packaging in Western Europe creates a benefit of 320 million yuan per 10,000 tons, while the indicator in my country is 190 million yuan per 10,000 tons. The unit income of the metal packaging industry in Western Europe is 70% more than that of China. In terms of the number of metal packaging patents, the number of patents held by the top 2 domestic metal packaging companies in China is less than 20, while the number of patents registered by Toyo Can in China is 58. Therefore, domestic metal packaging companies must Increase investment in research and development, and metal packaging companies with independent research and development capabilities will occupy an advantageous position in future competition.
1. The market environment is getting better, and there is huge potential and room for growth. China has a huge consumer group with a population of 1.3 billion and rich resources of industrial products, agricultural products and export commodities. In addition to the rapidly growing beverage industry, the development of new industries such as chemicals, cosmetics and medicine also provides huge room for growth in metal packaging. . Moreover, the 2008 Olympic Games, the 2010 World Expo and the investment of multinational companies in China have greatly promoted the growth of packaging demand. It is expected that the next 5 to 10 years will be a period of opportunity for the development of metal packaging strategies. Judging the development trend based on the sales revenue of China's metal packaging industry in 2007, it is expected that the production and sales volume in 2015 will far exceed the country's original planned target.
At present, the relationship between China’s per capita consumption of packaging products and per capita GDP is quite different from that of the international community. China’s metal packaging industry has huge potential. Especially with the development of China’s economy after joining WT0, corporate competition will inevitably shift from price competition to brand competition and service competition. The competition of scale and strength. This brings a new growth opportunity for the development of China's packaging industry.
2. Scale and specialization are the development direction of modern metal packaging. The metal packaging industry will face the overall transformation and improvement of scale, grouping, specialization, lean manufacturing and clean production in the next 3 to 5 years: from a single production enterprise to cross-regional group development; from extensive management to refined, Digitization and scientific transformation, thereby improving the management level and entry barriers of the industry, and narrowing the gap with foreign countries. Metal packaging companies with their own brands and intellectual property rights can choose to gradually develop into a large metal packaging group through mergers and acquisitions of small packaging companies.
3. Metal packaging emission reduction, energy saving and consumption reduction, and the promotion of metal packaging industry upgrading around the development of circular economy. The country has successively promulgated and implemented circular economy and cleaner production legislation, formulated relevant standards, and implemented special support for cleaner production, waste control and reduction of harmful emissions. It is expected that UV printing, computer networks and digital printing technologies will be widely used. Promote emission reduction and energy saving with efficiency and speed, reduce resource occupation, create conservation-oriented enterprises, develop circular economy, and achieve sustainable development.