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Recently, the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission issued a notice on publicly soliciting opinions on the Work Plan for the Governance of Excessive and Arbitrary Packaging of Mail and Express Parcels in Zhejiang Province (2021-2022). The draft was jointly drawn up by eight departments including the Provincial Development and Reform Commission and the Provincial Postal Administration. The Plan upholds the concept of green, low-carbon and circular development, follows the overall approach of "ban, restrict, reduce, recycle and lower", highlights targeted measures and closed-loop management, and strengthens standards leadership and enforcement

For a long time, corrugated cartons and display-stand packaging have been the pioneers in adopting digital printing technology, and the adoption rate of digital printing in this market is far ahead of the folding carton industry, which is larger in market size but subject to all kinds of constraints. Industry experts often give several different explanations for this, but generally speaking they come down to different run lengths, delivery times, supply chains, quality expectations, and management attitudes and flexibility. Digital printing can replace offset or flexo in printing or post-printing production, although each

Recently, the Shanghai Postal Administration, together with five municipal departments — the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Regulation and the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Greenery and City Appearance — jointly issued the Implementation Plan of Shanghai Municipality for Accelerating the Green Transformation of Express Packaging (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), to further strengthen express packaging governance in the city and advance the green transformation of express packaging. The Plan makes clear that it is necessary to comprehensively standardize industry management, strengthen upstream and downstream coordination, increase the supply of green products, cultivate innovative models, and improve laws

Recently, many parents in Guangzhou have reported that the newly issued English textbooks for the third and fourth grades of primary school have an unpleasant smell. Because of the odor, some parents hung the textbooks in a ventilated spot at home to air them out. On September 4, the Guangzhou Municipal Education Bureau contacted the publisher (Educational Science Publishing House) and the distributor (Guangzhou Xinhua Bookstore) to deal with the matter promptly. According to a preliminary assessment, the odor in the textbooks was caused by their printing and packaging. An operational error during printing, applying too much sealing oil, caused the textbooks

On August 28, the packaging industrial park in Jiajiazhuang Village, Fenyang City, Shanxi Province, broke ground. Once the park is completed, the enterprises moving in will leverage the Xinghuacun light-aroma liquor production region to create a four-in-one comprehensive creative packaging service covering "brand planning, creative design, technology R&D and product delivery." It is learned that the Jiajiazhuang Village packaging industrial park in Fenyang City is invested in and built by Fenyang Jiajiazhuang Tengfei Culture Communication Co., Ltd., covering a land area of 26 mu and a building area of 17,000 square meters, with a total investment of

At the seventh meeting of the seventh council of the Wenzhou Packaging Federation held on August 26, reporters learned that in 2020 the packaging industry generated a total industrial output value of about 65 billion yuan. According to incomplete statistics from the Wenzhou Packaging Federation, Wenzhou is currently home to 4,620 packaging enterprises with 157,000 employees. Among them are 1,288 packaging machinery manufacturers (including food and beverage machinery, pharmaceutical machinery, cosmetics machinery, etc.), 1,157 papermaking and paper products enterprises, plastics

Recently, International Pacific Millennium Packaging Group announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2021. During the period, the Group recorded revenue of RMB 1.117 billion, an increase of about 26.5% over the same period of the previous year; profit attributable to owners of the company was about RMB 23.3 million, a decrease of about 20.9% over the same period. Foshan plant expected to start production in the fourth quarter. It is reported that International Pacific Millennium Packaging Group established a new plant in Shandong Province in 2020, with an annual output of approximately

In the first half of this year, all of Hexing Packaging's businesses flourished and revenue grew rapidly. According to its 2021 Semi-Annual Report, the company recorded revenue of RMB 8.214 billion in the reporting period, up 72.39% year on year, and net profit attributable to the parent company's shareholders of RMB 151 million, up 9.17% year on year. (Hexing Packaging's financial data for the first half, unit: yuan) Which companies ranked highest in revenue and profit? In its semi-annual report, Hexing Packaging disclosed its major subsidi

In the trillion-yuan packaging industry, the folding carton sector can be called the last remaining industry where one can "eat big chunks of meat, drink from big bowls, and divide up gold and silver by the scale." A 28% gross margin on premium boxes, in a market that is still climbing, has also attracted more and more packaging giants. Unexpectedly, since 2020 a global wave of plastic bans and restrictions has swept in suddenly, plunging this industry into turbulence. Because folding cartons use fossil-based materials in mounting, gluing, film lamination or varnishing processes, some folding carton manufacturers

Recently, international packaging group DSSmith launched a research project on sustainable papermaking raw materials, aiming to explore the possibility of using algae fiber as a raw material for paper and packaging products, so as to meet the growing demand from customers and consumers for sustainable products. The research is expected to make the company an industry pioneer in using algae as an alternative wood fiber raw material for packaging. After preliminary trials, the company is also studying the potential of algae in replacing plastics, such as using