In recent years, the rapid development of packaging machinery has shown people infinite possibilities for the development prospects of the food packaging machinery industry. It is understood that the pre-treatment equipment for drinking water, carbonated drinks, and tea drinks in China can basically meet the needs. There are also matching products for medium and low speed bottle sorting and packaging equipment to choose from. In terms of hot filling machines, hot filling is still the main production and filling process for tea and fruit juice drinks.

The three major problems of food packaging machinery that cannot be ignored

At present, domestic dairy companies mainly use domestically produced equipment with affordable prices for pre-treatment, while most key processes such as packaging materials, filling, and coding use imported equipment. At present, the cardboard packaging industry has developed from a medium to low level to an excellent level, and the development momentum is very fast.

From the current development of food packaging machinery in China, there are three major issues that must be taken seriously and addressed. Firstly, there is a quality issue with the product. The reason why the price of packaging machinery in foreign countries is high is due to the good quality of the product. The production technology and methods of domestic food packaging machinery are backward, and there is still room for further improvement in product quality.

Secondly, there is a lack of research and innovation capabilities. At present, domestic food packaging machinery is mainly imitated, and there is no need for development and research. Even with the development of new products, the quantity is small and the cycle is relatively long.

Enterprises often only focus on production and processing, which leads to insufficient product innovation and inability to keep up with market demand. There is also a phenomenon in China where homogenization is quite severe. A newly designed product is quickly replicated upon its launch, and often thousands of companies launch it on the market in a short period of time, making it difficult to find who the developer is later.

Driven by interests, most companies are busy copying other people's products and neglect product upgrades, let alone investing energy in achieving technological innovation.

Furthermore, the automation level of domestic food packaging machinery is not high. Some insiders have pointed out that the automation level of food packaging machinery used abroad is high, with a higher unit yield than in China. This is not a problem of domestic manufacturing level not being met, but rather a problem of demand. The reason behind this is that the overall scale of the domestic food processing and manufacturing industry is not large, and large production capacity models require a large one-time investment.

At present, various countries attach great importance to the development of packaging machinery. Production specialization, high resource utilization, product energy-saving, high-tech utilization, and commercialization of scientific research achievements have also become the development trend of packaging machinery. For domestic packaging machinery enterprises, this is also the direction of development. Although enterprises cannot achieve large scale, they should strive to ensure quality.