The development of flexible Packaging Industry in Europe,USA,Japan

With the rapid development of food,cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry and the improvement of packaging materials and processing technology ,fexible packaging is playing an increasingly more and more important role in many fields.Flexible packaging,which enjoys the following advantages:barrier properties, easy printing, low cost, light weight, impact resistance, transparent, microwave heating, convenience,etc.Therefore,flexible packaging is warmly welcomed by cunsumers.On the other hand,with the growing demand of flexible packaging as well as people's awareness of energy-conservation and environment-protection raising,flexible packaging industry is developing steadily,providing great opportunitirs.

The development status of Euro and USA Industry

"2007 the European flexible packaging market report" ,published by PCI Films Consulting Company of United Kingdom ,points out that in 2007 the sales of European flexible packaging market has exceeded more than 11.3 billion euros, taking up 29% of sales in the global flexible packaging market. The sales of processing forming flexible packaging products has reached 9.89 billion euros and sales of flexible packaging materials went beyond 1.41 billion euros. For the processing of forming the European flexible packaging market, 2008 is a year with stable development. PCI forecasts that in next four years, the average annual growth rate of processing of forming the European flexible packaging market will remain at 1.5% and it would reach 10.6 billion euros by the year of 2012.Meanwhiles,Europen is the biggest place of origin of packaging machinery equipment.The sales of Germany takes up 22% of the world,which ranks in the first place.And the second one comes to Italy,taking up 16%.
The gap between China soft-package transfer printing equipment industry and similar industries abroad
Design of Products
Most of packaging machinery manufacturing enterprises in China are small and medium enterprises.Generally,they do not have their own R & D capability.Due to inadequate investment in scientific research, research institutes lacks excellent experimental conditions, resulting that our products on the market being imitated.

Standardization of equipment

Nowadays, international flexible packaging printing equipment manufacturing enterprises in the production of parts basically realize the standardization, serialization, fine and professional goals.