Promising Prospects for Special-Purpose Packaging Equipment? First-Half Performance Shows Bright Spots

Is the outlook for the dedicated packaging equipment industry promising? First-half performance shows bright spots

News source: International Packaging Information Network

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China is on the broad path of accelerating its drive to become a manufacturing powerhouse, building a modern industrial system and achieving high-quality economic development. Packaging, as an unavoidable key topic in the industrial development of food and other manufacturing sectors, is seeing a growing trend in demand for dedicated packaging equipment within manufacturing under the overall development approach of greening and intelligentization. Coupled with the package of measures such as policy rollouts that China has introduced in recent years to promote the development of the high-end equipment industry, the outlook for the dedicated packaging equipment industry is promising.

Packaging equipment refers to equipment that can complete all or part of the packaging process of products and goods. Generally speaking, packaging often involves multiple operations such as filling, wrapping and sealing, as well as cleaning, measuring, stacking and unpacking. Affected by factors such as material properties and output, applying the corresponding packaging machinery in the packaging process can efficiently meet the needs of large-scale, quality-oriented production and reverse the situation of high labor intensity in traditional production.

With technological upgrading, packaging equipment has evolved into many types, and its performance is also continuously improving, which provides strong support for the development of manufacturing. Taking the food industry as an example, the available packaging equipment includes vacuum packaging machines, pillow packaging machines, modified atmosphere packaging machines, granule packaging machines, powder packaging machines, paste packaging machines, tablet packaging machines, liquid packaging machines, measuring packaging machines, vertical packaging machines, multi-function packaging machines, heat shrink packaging machines, as well as fillers, filling machines, sealing machines, labeling machines, coding machines and so on. In response to the innovative packaging formats that have emerged in the food industry in recent years, the packaging machinery industry, through technological breakthroughs, has developed and manufactured stand-up pouch packaging equipment, parallel robots, flexible automatic packaging machines and other equipment that meet food packaging needs, and has integrated advanced servo systems and the like into the equipment, continuously improving equipment flexibility to meet flexible production and processing needs.

Amid these favorable overall developments, let us take a simple look at a set of data to see how the packaging machinery industry performed in the first half of the year. According to relevant data from the National Bureau of Statistics, in May this year China's total output of dedicated packaging equipment was

units, and the output of dedicated packaging equipment in Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in May this year was respectively

units, ranking in the top four. Among them, the dedicated packaging equipment of Shanghai and Zhejiang respectively achieved, compared with the same period last year,

growth, while Jiangsu declined year-on-year by

Looking again at the overall data for the first five months of this year, Shanghai's performance was even more eye-catching. The data show that in

month, Shanghai's output of dedicated packaging equipment reached

units, an increase of more than over one year

. In the first five months of this year, Shanghai's dedicated packaging equipment output was also far higher than that of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, showing vigorous momentum of industrial development.

At present, many favorable factors are injecting new momentum into the development of the packaging machinery industry. But it cannot be denied that, affected by multiple factors in the broader environment, industry enterprises have faced certain difficulties in transactions, shipments and other aspects this year. The second half of the year has already begun. We look forward to more good news from the market and the industry, and we also hope that machinery enterprises will seize the opportunity, sharpen their internal strengths, make steady progress on their products and enhance their own market competitiveness.

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn). Original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-379056.html