Global flexible packaging market value will reach $2020 in 248 billion

According to authoritative market research organization smithers's research institute predicted that over the next five years, the global flexible packaging market value will be 3.4% average annual growth rate, flexible packaging market will reach $2020 in 248 billion.

Compared with other forms of packaging, flexible packaging of superior performance, less use of resources and energy, and significantly reduce the packaging cost, the use of material and transportation costs.Using a flexible packaging, can minimize processing enterprises, packaging, transportation cost between retail enterprises and consumers.The space occupied goods after use, waste of flexible packaging than rigid package also is much less.According to the investigation and study, the global flexible packaging products mainly have the following three development trends.

The barrier property of film popular

Many parts of the world, paper and aluminum production of flexible packaging is no longer popular, flexible packaging plastic film become the most commonly used packaging materials.High polymer product prices, prompting flexible packaging plastic film to the direction of more and more thin to save cost.

Although plastic film thinning constantly, in order to ensure the quality of goods, flexible packaging companies are still tend to choose high performance plastic.High performance film used in food packaging, have the function of anti osmosis, can prolong the shelf life, enhance the food flavor.In addition to food and other industrial and agricultural products, packaging will in high quality flexible packaging.

Survey found that plastic film, especially the transparent film on the blocking performance greatly improved, making soft packing an effective alternative to glass and metal packaging,.Flexible packaging meet the requirement of hot filling beverage products such as warranty, a huge attraction on sellers., such as milk, milk under the cold storage temperature oxidation is slow, there is no need to use glass or metal packaging, flexible packaging can meet the needs of the prolong the shelf life of milk.Such as wine packing again, although the wine at refrigeration temperatures also can react with oxygen rapidly, but through the multi-layer co-extrusion technology in the production of plastic flexible packaging, can also meet the needs of the wine products to cut off water and oxygen.

Ready-to-use food packaged into the mainstream

Modern nervous busy lifestyle makes more and more consumers are no longer to cook their own meal, and choose convenient ready-to-eat foods.Thanks to the social and economic trends, flexible way of flexible packaging occupied the ready-to-eat products packaging market.Results show that, using the flexible packaging of fresh meat, fish and poultry products consumption is much higher than without packaging products.In the large supermarket, packaged food often occupying the most obvious shelf area.

In the past 10 years, frozen frozen food consumption in steady growth.And integrated in the supermarket stores, consumers tend to buy food ready and have been cooking, pre - baked or slice of frozen food.Consumer demand for convenience not only in the choice of food types, this trend also promotes the development of flexible packaging in the direction of convenience and environmental protection.

The new biological material to help the environment

In recent years, the degradable plastics and biological materials research and development has greatly promoted the development of the global packaging industry.However, degradable plastics with slower degradation in soil, the unable to timely and the disadvantages of recycling, have limited its application prospect.So natural biological plastic packaging with fully the advantages of environmental protection, be the first choice of the future flexible packaging materials.

It is predicted that in 2020 the global biological packaging material consumption will reach 2 million tons, in 2014, the price of the conversion, the market value would reach $5 billion, an average annual compound growth rate of 21%.Benefit from the government's support policies of sustainable packaging, Europe is the biological packaging materials in the world's largest consumer market.But over the next five years, north American and Asian consumption growth will be much higher than that of Europe.

The growth of awareness of environmental protection and the progress of science and technology, increased the development potential of the natural biological packing materials.After the improvement and innovation, the application of natural biological material will gradually improve, or will be in the packaging industry occupies a considerable market share.