If some products in the world can always maintain a strong vitality, product packaging is listed. For a long time, people have never stopped pursuing packaging innovation.
When many people focus their attention on the flexible packaging industry, they may not have discovered it. In fact, rigid packaging has also achieved rapid development in recent years. Compared with flexible packaging, rigid packaging has the characteristics of strong impact resistance and long shelf life. Common hard packaging is aluminum cans, cardboard boxes and more.
According to analysis of relevant foreign markets, in the next few years, the compliance growth rate of rigid packaging will remain at 4.5%. The market will grow from $549.7 billion in 2014 to $750.5 billion in 2021. The industries that drive the rapid development of rigid packaging are mainly food, pharmaceutical and beverage packaging.
The analysis divides the raw materials of rigid packaging into plastic, metal, glass and others. Among them, plastics accounted for the largest proportion of the market, up to 41.2%, and the compound annual growth rate was 4.3%. The fastest growing is cardboard, with a compound annual growth rate of 4.7%.
In terms of industry, beverage packaging accounts for the largest share of the market, while the pharmaceutical packaging industry is the fastest growing.
In addition, some new hard packaging has emerged in various industries. Here, based on relevant foreign information, several new materials or processes are introduced.
1. Produce aerosol packaging using recycled aluminum. This new process can reduce the weight of the package by 10% without reducing the strength of the aerosol package.
2. A new can is the gospel of beer lovers. The tank contains a small nitrogen unit that protects the liquid inside it. You know, the biggest enemy of beer is not your wife, but oxygen. With nitrogen protection, your beer will be fresher and pouring into the cup will produce a more fascinating foam.
3. A new type of egg box, commonly used in foreign supermarkets, a box of 12 or 24 eggs. Made of carbon-free, degradable, recyclable materials.