In recent years, with the rapid growth of the economy, the paper packaging industry has developed rapidly. According to the prediction of relevant planning department, paper packaging products are expected to reach 19 million tons from 2001 to 2005, 27 million tons from 2006 to 2010 and 36 million tons from 2011 to 2015.

 

        Since 2003, some large foreign companies have been optimistic about China's packaging market, some domestic paper packaging enterprises aim at the market to seize opportunities, investment and development, promoting the production of enterprises on the scale, the product level. 2004

 

        In January 2016, American smythe stone east company announced that its partner American international jifeng group company had preliminarilyconfirmed to put the investment project of paper packaging products in the food industry park in xike town, tongan town, xiamen city, fujian province. The company decided to make comprehensive use of recycled paper resources and adopt patented technology to develop, produce and sell paper products for packaging, such as paper backing board, and to design and print packaging decoration. The project, with a total investment of us $12.5 million, is expected to be operational by the end of the year. Can achieve annual output value of 140 million yuan.

 

From January to August 2003, 20 projects were introduced into Inner Mongolia and shengdong economic park in linxian county. Among them, paper packaging projects include Inner Mongolia gaoshi paper industry co., ltd. established by hebei xianghe gaoshi paper products co., ltd. in shengle economic park with a total investment of 40 million yuan and an annual output of 100 million square meters of packaging cartons. Inner Mongolia shengdu paper packaging and printing co., LTD., established by sichuan chengdu chaoyue color printing co., LTD., has a total investment of 50 million yuan and an annual output of 50 million square meters of packaging cartons. These two projects attract investment, greatly promote the rapid development of the carton industry in Inner Mongolia.

 

        In December 2003, a production line with an annual output of 100,000 tons of liquid beverage packaging paper was laid in henan new century yuanxing paper co., LTD. This is the first phase of the ecological paper industrial park project in ju county, henan province, which was completed and put into operation in August 2004. Its products are mainly used in the packaging of dairy products, beverages, food and cigarettes, which can replace imported products to a certain extent. The second phase of the eco-industrial park project is planned to cover an area of 1,500 mu, with a total investment of 2.2 billion yuan. The new projects include an annual production line of 200,000 tons of poplar pulp, a 200,000 tons of high-strength corrugated paper production line and a daily sewage treatment project of 30,000 tons. The planning and development goal of the park is to form a national large-scale papermaking enterprise with an annual production capacity of 800,000 tons, sales revenue of 3.4 billion yuan and profit and tax of 580 million yuan by 2008. Although China has regulations on raw materials and hygienic indexes of food packaging paper, there are no varieties of paper and cardboard specially used for food packaging. In order to quickly change this situation, a number of high-tech food special paper packaging products and technology is being developed, some have been introduced, the promotion and application. For example, for packaging different foods, the development and production of packaging for solid food and liquid food packaging functional cardboard. The former includes cartons and paperboards for ready-to-eat food such as pastry packaging, cartons and paperboards for salt packaging, and cartons and paperboards for semi-finished food such as steamed, baked and processed food. The latter such as packaging milk, juice, such as paper can cardboard, etc.

 

        Food thermal insulation wrapping paper is one of the urgently needed products in the market. The function of this kind of paper is to keep the aroma, freshness and heat of cooked food after wrapping, so that people can eat it conveniently and adapt to the fast pace of modern life. The insulation paper works like a solar collector, converting light into heat. Usually, people only need to put the food packaged with the paper in a place where the sun can shine, and then there will be heat added constantly, so that the food inside the paper can protect a certain degree of heat.

 

        The birth of paper cans, overcome the aluminum cans expensive price, environmental pollution and other shortcomings, will be widely used in chemical, food, medicine and other packaging. The raw materials can also be used to produce cardboard boxes, paper cups, cartons and other products. Concerned expert predicts, the annual demand of our country paper can will reach 15 billion gradually, its market prospect is very broad.

 

        In recent years, China's carton packaging industry has been rapid development. In particular, domestic and foreign brand products and export products on the carton, carton quality and printing requirements are increasingly high, so that the paper packaging quality level is constantly improved. First, the carton transport packaging gradually developed to commodity packaging, carton printing text pattern requirements clear, two-color gradually developed to three colors, six colors, accurate color register, network with 60 lines to 80 lines, at the same time packaging printing machine precision, and the development of flexible packaging printing. Secondly, the white paper board will gradually replace the grey board, and the water-based ink will replace the oily oil, so as to make the packing box beautiful, clear and bright. The printing technology content is high, which improves the added value of the product and meets the requirements of environmental protection.

 

        Relevant experts believe that in the next decade, the paper packaging industry will still be in the development of the adjustment period. With the development of global economy, the acceleration of urbanization, the improvement of people's living standards and the upgrading of consumption structure, the supply and demand of the paper market will still grow rapidly, and the paper packaging industry has a huge space for development.