Green and Intelligent Pharmaceutical Packaging Development

China is the second largest packaging country next only to the U.S. According to relevant data, the total output of China’s packaging industry exceeded RMB 1.9 trillion in 2016, and the packaging industry continued to be upgraded in 2017 towards the output of RMB 2 trillion. Behind such rapid growth of China’s packaging industry is the rapid development of the economy and society, and the improvement of people’s living standard. Wherein, as a part of the packaging industry, the pharmaceutical product packaging has made important contributions to the total output. Now 2018 has come, and regarded as the first year of the second transformation of the Chinese packaging industry since the reform and opening up, it will have certain influences on the pharmaceutical product packaging and other industries. Then, how will the pharmaceutical product packaging industry of China move forward under the current background?

Environmental protection efforts are being increased, and the industry reshuffle is kicked off

As is known to all, China is a large packaging country, however, the "large" mainly manifests in the packaging quantity, and it is hard for China to contend with developed countries in terms of packaging quality, brand type, technical content, and economic benefit, etc., therefore, while maintaining the quantity, China’s packaging industry must make improvement internally to improve packaging quality and shall catch the market development trends to accelerate transformation and upgrading.

The environmental protection efforts have been constantly increased in China in recent years, which means the industry internal reform to the pharmaceutical product packaging field. According to an industry expert, the environmental protection efforts will continue to be increased in China in 2018 and the industry reshuffle will be kicked off, which means that small packaging enterprises with low production technical level and poor packaging quality will be gradually knocked out, while leading packaging enterprises with complete and efficient supply chain will have advantages, and carve up the "blue ocean" market.

Confronted with the new market competition situation, the Chinese pharmaceutical product packaging enterprises can gain ground only by catching the development trends and conducting green development. Also, the packaging industry reshuffle will bring certain opportunities and challenges to the development of the enterprises of pharmaceutical product packaging equipment.

The demand continues to increase, and the technological content of packaging shall be improved

The pharmaceutical product packaging equipment refers to the equipment that completes all or part of the pharmaceutical product packaging process, and also includes sealing and metering accessory equipment, etc. They complete main packaging procedures such as filling, wrapping, and sealing, and the relevant procedures before and after said procedures, such as cleaning, stacking, and disassembly, during the pharmaceutical product packaging.

The pharmaceutical product packaging industry previously had problems such as serious excess capacity, industry low-end competition, and serious lack of packaging innovation, which indicates the directions for the development of the Chinese pharmaceutical product packaging equipment. Under the background of the increasing market demand, Chinese pharmaceutical product packaging equipment urgently needs improving technical content, increasing packaging productivity and innovation, and expanding their practicability and applicability.

For example, the medicinal aluminum-plastic blister packaging machines were originally used to pack oral solid preparations in various geometrical shapes, however, many manufacturers have correspondingly updated the said machines in recent years with the improvement of the packaging technology: in addition to packing the solid preparations, such type of packaging machine is also used to pack ampoule, antibiotic vial, ointment, syringe, and infusion bag, etc., to greatly improve the equipment applicability and packaging efficiency.

Speed up the layout in the intelligent packaging, to seize the RMB 2 trillion market

Furthermore, the pharmaceutical product packaging industry of China also has problems like weak capacity for independent innovation, and not high levels of automation, informatization, and intelligence during the packaging manufacturing. Under the background of consumption upgrade, the demand for high-end packages will grow steadily in China, and leading packaging enterprises with high automation and intelligence will continue to benefit therefrom.

In terms of policies, the Chinese packaging industry will focus on development of 6 projects including green packaging, intelligent packaging, and safe packaging, etc., promote the innovative and green development of the packaging industry, update the packaging economy, and achieve the substantial transformation of the industry from "large" to "strong", during the 13^th Five-year Plan period. According to information, leading enterprises in the Chinese packaging industry have started to conduct layout in new development directions such as intelligent packaging and green packaging, to seize the RMB two trillion market of the Chinese packaging industry.

According to an insider, affected by policies, the Chinese packaging production will bid farewell to the single factory mode, drive low-end plants to become group joint plant, 2.5 plant, intelligent plant, and unmanned plant, and be committed to the efficient, unmanned, and intelligent hyper-scale shared plant in 2018.

In my opinion, the automation, intelligence, and going green have become an irresistible trend. Chinese enterprises of pharmaceutical product packaging equipment shall seize the favorable policies, speed up intelligent packaging upgrade, promote green development of packaging, enhance the overall strength of the pharmaceutical product packaging industry, and catch up with the packaging industries of developed countries.

(Source/author) Zyzhan.com

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