With the consumption upgrade of China's fruit and vegetable market in recent years, and consumers paying more attention to the concepts of green issues and health after the pandemic, the market demand for fresh fruit and vegetable packaging has increased again. It has become an important development trend in the packaging industry at present if it can meet the market demand and adjust to reduce costs and improve efficiency, and further meet the international requirements for environmental protection and standardization.
Tianjin Ant Intelligent Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. is a leading provider of overall packaging solutions for high-end brands in the industry, providing automatic packaging solutions for customers in the food industry at home and abroad. Mr. Lu Wuqiang, CMO of the company, shared his insights on the packaging industry of agricultural and sideline products with Freshplaza.
Lu Wuqiang and his fruit and vegetable cartons
"In the fruit and vegetable market in recent years, the demand for packaging in terms of quantity and quality has been increasing. In order to meet the demand, we have made a series of matching adjustments in technology and production capacity to reduce packaging costs, improve efficiency and better meet the needs of the international market. For example, in order to help a watermelon production enterprise reduce the cost, we adopted the film printing process and changed the carton structure at the same time, which finally saved 30% of the packaging cost for this user. In addition, different from the traditional offset printing process using ink printing, we adopted a pre-printing process using water-based ink to become more environmentally friendly and connect with the international market. "
Printing process on film
New watermelon carton
"One of the problems in the domestic packaging industry is the low level of standardization. In Europe and America, the packaging is mostly mechanized, but in China, it is still folded by hand, which has low efficiency and high labor cost. The increase in labor costs this year will definitely prompt enterprises to speed up the automation upgrade, which is the future trend."
Automatic box folding operation
"In addition, starting from 2023, the state will allow the foreign imported paper to enter the China market duty-free. This new measure makes the price of domestic finished paper drop rapidly in China market, and it no longer has the almost monopoly state before. This is good news for packaging users, because the packaging cost can be reduced by at least 10%, but for large domestic carton factories, the pressure is greatly increased due to fierce competition."
Regarding the market after the pandemic, Lu believes that the market competition will be fierce in the short term, and a considerable number of carton factories may face elimination. In order to cope with the impact, the company will not only innovate the packaging structure and avoid blind competition but also actively explore overseas markets, such as Peru, Chile, Moldova and other places. "In terms of raw materials and labor costs, Chinese enterprises are more dominant."
Ant Intelligent Packaging, customers include Fortune 500 companies and many high-end brands, such as Goodfarmer, Qifeng Fruit Industry and Wangzhanggui Apple. The products and solutions provided include colored boxes, gift boxes, brochures, labels, cartons, pulp molding, intelligent packaging, environmentally friendly packaging, and functional packaging. At the same time, we provide professional services such as creative design, innovative research and development, intelligent manufacturing, automated production, multi-regional operation and fast delivery.
More information:
Lu Wuqiang
Tianjin Ant Intelligent Packaging Technology Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 15611124666
Wechat: luwuqiang
Email: lwq@myxpack.com
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