In the next decade, corrugated packaging has great potential for development

China's packaging industry has basically reached the international advanced level and ranks among the big countries, and its annual GDP has increased at a rate of 20% every year for the past five years.

By the end of 2011 , the total output value of the packaging industry in China exceeded the threshold of 1,260 billion yuan, and the output of paper packaging products in China ranks first in the world. It has basically satisfied the total retail sales of domestic consumer goods of more than 6 trillion yuan and the package matching demand for export goods of 600 billion US dollars.

In 2010 , China has surpassed Europe and the United States as the world's largest producer of corrugated board. In 2011 , the average annual growth rate of corrugated box production in China remained at around 4% . In the next 10 years, corrugated packaging still has much room for development.

The output value of China's packaging industry increased by 18% year-on- year , while the output value of China's paper packaging reached 150 billion yuan, accounting for 37.13% of the total packaging industry. The annual increase rate of corrugated paperboard production in China reached 11.9% , which is much higher than the world average growth rate. The rapid growth of China's corrugated industry contrasts sharply with the negative growth in Singapore and elsewhere.

Corrugated packaging represents the advanced level of packaging in China, the challenges faced by packaging: low packaging costs; low transportation costs; low breakage rates and sustainable packaging and low pollution. In the innovation of the transformation of the corrugated packaging industry, the first is to find the blank spots of the industry, such as the recycling and reuse of packaging waste, such as the tray sharing system; the second is to occupy the commanding height of the industry, that is, the development and manufacture of low-carbon green packaging materials. Such as foam stone paper; 30 to find the industry's leading point, that is, packaging services, such as integrated system design, research and development, testing, certification, training and other service functions, to create a high service platform for packaging. The fourth is to promote innovation in packaging technology and technological progress in the industry. Key areas for packaging R&D during the " 12th Five-Year Plan" period: low-carbon packaging; new environmentally-friendly packaging materials; packaging reduction, greenization; recycling and sharing of package-sharing systems; technology-driven, improved efficiency, low energy consumption, and filling domestic blank packaging New technology, new materials development and application; with national competitiveness, can improve China's home appliance packaging technology independent innovation projects.

The problems faced by the corrugated box manufacturing industry at home and abroad have always been how to effectively control production costs and provide customers with comprehensive services. Among them, the transformation path of packaging is: from high-emission, high-energy consumption to low-emission, low-carbon transition; The transformation of functions into internationalization; transformation of packaging services into packaging integration solutions.

In the next 10 years, packaging materials and packaging systems will reduce the overall cost; based on the basic requirements of environmental protection - prohibit or limit the use of packaging materials containing harmful substances; molded paper containers will gradually replace the current die-cutting combination of paper Containers; deep plastic coating technology gradually replaced the past wax; composite technology has become an important technology for the development of paper containers; CAD and CAM system will greatly shorten the design and manufacturing cycle of paper packaging containers. Moreover, the future development trend is that the equipment is smaller, more flexible, more versatile, and more efficient. Instead, it is an on-line, linkage production line, which is also the development direction and inevitable trend of China's corrugated processing industry.