Liquid packaging machines face serious technical constraints

】At present, the excessive dependence of China's packaging machinery on advanced foreign technology has seriously restricted the sustained and stable development of China's packaging industry. As far as liquid packaging machines are concerned, due to the impact of the Sanlu incident, liquid packaging machines have long remained in a sluggish state, and there are fatal restrictive factors in the technology of liquid packaging machines. According to Packaging e-Line, liquid packaging machinery manufacturers with independent innovation and R&D capabilities are very few in number.

Technical Constraints Facing Liquid Packaging Machines

Only by improving the consistency and continuity of equipment hygiene and safety can such changes in the original processability of raw materials be addressed. The contradiction between the special requirements of the industry and the shortage of interdisciplinary technical talent. In dairy processing and packaging equipment, UHT and aseptic technology are at a relatively high technical level; they are the comprehensive result of related technical disciplines and are also key technologies and equipment that China needs to break through. The dairy processing and packaging equipment industry is an industry with special requirements; at the technical level, manufacturers should possess comprehensive qualities such as biopharmaceutical equipment manufacturing technology, the experience of dairy processing technologists, the capability for automated integration technology, and the means for total quality control.

To break through key technologies, in addition to sufficient R&D funding support, what is more important is the ability to digest and absorb relevant advanced foreign technologies and, through innovative means that integrate breakthrough and integration, to comprehensively enhance the high reliability and high safety of the overall equipment performance. This requires high-quality interdisciplinary talent with the ability to integrate technology and innovate. Owing to the industry's development history and capital structure, the extreme shortage of high-quality talent has become an indisputable fact and a bottleneck restricting the development of the industry's technical level.

The Particularity of the Dairy Packaging Machine Industry

The contradiction between the industry's development pattern and the lack of macro guidance. The particularity of the dairy packaging machine industry is manifested in a wide technical span, strong comprehensiveness and large market development space. However, the industry's capital composition is relatively simple, its pattern is rather scattered, enterprises block each other, technology is monopolized, and the phenomenon of building cars behind closed doors is fairly serious. At the technical level, most production is low-level, common and conventional equipment; high-quality talent is extremely scarce, and manufacturers with independent innovation and R&D capabilities are very few. Macro guidance for the industry falls under multiple industry associations, and this multiplicity of policies has formed a "three-no industry" with no clear macro guidance, no development support policies and no technical standard supervision, which has seriously restricted the improvement of the overall technical level and lagged far behind the development of the dairy industry.

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