Guangdong Province Packaging Industry Structure Adjustment (6)

5. Glass Container The industrial glass container production industry mainly provides products for the beer, liquor, beverage, food, medicine, chemical, and pesticide industries. Since the reform and opening up, the production of glass containers in our province has introduced and digested and absorbed foreign advanced technology and equipment, which has greatly improved the level of technical equipment in the entire industry, and greatly increased the variety and variety of products. Taking beer bottles as an example, the single varieties that have remained unchanged in the past few decades have now developed green, brown, and white 640 ml, 500 ml, 355 ml, 296 ml beer bottles that have been developed and put into the market. Our glass container industry now has a number of large-scale backbone enterprises such as Guangdong Aolian Glass Company. Glass containers have significant advantages such as good barrier properties, corrosion resistance, and transparency and intuition. However, they also have disadvantages such as heavy weight, difficulty in carrying, and being easily damaged. In particular, the occurrence of personal injury due to blasting of beer bottles occurs from time to time. Plastic hollow containers have captured an increasing share of the glass container market. In the face of competition, the adjustment ideas of the glass container industry are:
A. Deepening technological transformation and enhancing competitiveness Even though the weight of beer bottles has been reduced by 5%-15%, the weight ratio is still larger than that of hollow plastic containers. To this end, advanced production techniques and processes should be further introduced to produce glass containers that are lighter and have higher strength.
B. Upgrade the grade of glass containers In the developed countries, glass containers belong to high-grade packaging containers. However, the existing glass containers in our province are still in short supply, especially high-grade special-shaped bottles and frosted bottles for cosmetics and high-grade wines. And deep processing products such as printing technology are still lacking and need to be developed to meet market needs.
Third, catch up with the development trend of the world packaging industry With the rapid development of China's economy, the level of consumption is increasing, and consumption patterns are gradually in line with international standards. In terms of packaging, we should pay close attention to the following trends and catch up with our actual situation. 
1. The packaging industry quickly responds to changes in consumer demand, and production tends to diversify. The development of new products is fast and short.
2. The packaging industry is committed to providing consumers with more convenient packaging. For example, in response to the increasing trend of elderly consumers, products such as zippered lids, metal lids that are easy to open, and two-finger pull rings have been developed.
3. Put safety in an important position. The pharmaceutical industry first used anti-theft packaging. Anti-theft packaging is now used for food and beverage packaging.
4. Retail packaging has become an important part of product sales.
5. The packaging uses a multi-functional information labeling system.
6. The development of packaging equipment tends to be versatile and efficient.
7. Packaging machinery presents the trend of automation.
8. Packaging materials and packaging systems show a trend of decreasing total costs.
9. Packaging design increasingly meets international standards.
10. From the angle of environmental protection and resource conservation, edible packaging technology has become popular. At present, research on edible packaging in foreign countries mainly focuses on materials, processes, and equipment. The following types are mainly developed: Soy protein edible packaging film; Protein, fatty acid, starch compound edible packaging film; Water-resistant protein packaging film; Okara edible packaging paper; Corn protein packaging film; Protein-coated wrapping paper; Corn starch , sodium alginate or chitosan composite packaging film.
11. More emphasis on the development of packaging machinery.
12. Pay more attention to the recycling of packaging waste and formulate relevant laws. In some developed countries, packaging waste accounts for about 60% of the volume of domestic waste. In order to eliminate the harm caused by packaging waste to people and protect the environment, the recycling and recycling industry of packaging waste has emerged and developed rapidly. For packaging waste, the attitude of foreign governments is to formulate corresponding laws and regulations. Second, increase investment to synchronize the recycling of waste with the sustainable development of the economy.