The development prospects of pulp molding
The use of pulp moulding technology to produce tableware products and industrial packaging products is truly environmentally friendly products, it is natural plant fibres or waste paper as raw materials, the production process and the use of the process without any pollution. In addition to their positive role in replacing disposable plastic tableware, pulp moulded products are also widely used in the packaging of industrial products, especially electronic products. Pulp moulded plastic products are gradually entering the mainstream of commodity packaging, it is the best alternative to foam products, pulp moulded plastic industry is stepping into a period of prosperous development.
(1) At present, China’s economy and the world economy are highly interrelated, and efforts are being made to build a new pattern of all-round opening up, deeply integrate into the world economic system, promote the construction of “one belt – road” and strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries in the world. With the deep integration of China’s economy with the international market, the volume of commodity import and export transactions is increasing, and the demand for commodity shockproof packaging products is also increasing. And environmentally friendly pulp moulded plastic packaging products to replace foam products used as shockproof packaging is an inevitable trend, the future market potential of pulp moulded plastic industrial packaging products is quite huge.
(2) According to information, Europe, America, Japan and other countries and regions have strictly prohibited the use of EPS foam as the liner packaging of goods.
In recent years, the domestic market also has a very urgent need for environmentally friendly alternatives to foam packaging products. With the continuous maturity of pulp moulding products technology and its performance, price and other aspects have the advantage of replacing foam products, pulp moulding products with its excellent cushioning and shock performance, low price, especially the environmental advantages of degradation, in China’s Pearl River Delta region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the Bohai Sea region has been more widely used, many domestic brand-name home appliances, electronic products companies and Many domestic brand-name household appliances, electronic products companies and foreign-invested enterprises have begun to use pulp moulded plastic products as their shockproof packaging materials. Pulp moulded plastic packaging products have been widely used in home appliances, electronics, communication materials, computer accessories, ceramics, glass, instruments, toys and lighting crafts and other products lined with anti-vibration packaging.
(3) At present, China’s pulp moulding industrial packaging products annual output is not high,
basically are supporting the export of mechanical and electrical, home appliances, far from being able to meet the growing demand for plastic packaging market, so urgent requirements of the domestic packaging industry as soon as possible to expand the production of pulp moulding packaging products to meet the needs of domestic and foreign markets.
(4) in the international and domestic situation,
it is expected that in 5 ~ 10 years, pulp moulded plastic products on the foam products replacement rate will reach 50% or more, the formation of hundreds of billions of yuan of market share. China’s pulp moulding industry began at the end of the 20th century and has gradually developed and matured in the early 21st century, and is now in a period of sunrise in the midst of vigorous development.
(5) According to statistics, the turnover of China’s paper printing and packaging industry amounts to trillions of yuan per year. At present, the total production capacity of the national pulp moulding industry is less than 5% of this market capacity. This shows that the pulp moulding market space is large, the development prospects
(6) China’s early introduction of pulp moulding production line is mainly used for the production of egg tray and fruit tray, only suitable for mass production of fewer varieties of products, and the amount of investment in equipment is large; for the packaging of industrial products of pulp moulding products, its characteristics are multi-variety, small and medium batch, for this reason must be suitable for multi-variety, small and medium batch production of small and medium-sized production lines to meet the needs of the market. With the gradual implementation of China’s plastic ban and plastic restriction, the market demand for pulp moulded food and beverage utensils has surged, but also on the wet press tableware equipment capacity, efficiency, energy consumption and other higher requirements.
(7) pulp moulding industry in China has only a few decades of history, but the development is very rapid, for two reasons: one, the pulp moulding products itself in environmental protection, use performance and other aspects than alternatives have significant advantages; second, the government’s strong support and the influence of the world environment. At present, China’s pulp moulding industry in the production process, product performance, machinery and equipment and production scale are at the forefront of the world. Domestic pulp moulding equipment manufacturing technology has become increasingly mature, equipment performance, production process, etc. can be comparable with imported equipment. And domestic equipment investment costs are small, flexible, low cost of production, especially for the production of industrial packaging products with diversified product specifications.
(8) At present, blister and foam plastic lining packaging materials, environmentally friendly alternatives are mainly pulp moulding, corrugated cardboard, honeycomb cardboard and other materials. From all types of materials for the protection of the packaging, price, ease of use and other comprehensive performance comparison, pulp moulding products have obvious advantages. The combination of pulp moulding and other paper products can be a perfect alternative to plastic packaging products, forming an all-paper packaging solution that is very much in line with the concept of environmental protection and sustainable development.”