In recent years, with the rapid development of the food industry, as well as the continuous upgrading of the consumer market, the food packaging industry has ushered in a new development trend, for example, new packaging materials can realize green degradation, reduce “white pollution”; intelligent packaging can monitor the temperature of the food, can realize the source traceability, can be anti-counterfeiting identification, etc., to bring consumers a different The shopping experience for consumers is not the same.

What are the development trends in the food packaging industry?

Green:

“Green packaging” is also called ‘sustainable packaging’, in short, ‘recyclable, easy to degrade, lightweight’. At present, more and more countries and regions in the world in different ways to limit or ban the use of plastic products, in addition to “paper instead of plastic”, to reduce “white pollution” in addition to the use of new packaging materials (such as biomaterials) has also become the industry to explore the direction. direction.

The so-called biomaterials refers to the use of biotechnology, green or natural substances processed into packaging application materials. In some European countries, has begun to use grease film, protein, etc. as food packaging materials, such as a brewery in Denmark to develop a wood fiber bottle, which uses more environmentally friendly packaging materials to achieve green degradation. It can be seen that the biological packaging materials have a very broad prospect, the future will be applied to various fields.

Functional diversity

With the rapid development of the packaging industry, as well as the diversified needs of the consumer market, food packaging is moving in the direction of functional diversification, including oil, moisture, freshness, high-barrier, active packaging …… There are also modern smart labeling technologies, such as QR codes, blockchain anti-counterfeiting, etc., how to combine with traditional packaging, but also the future of the food packaging The development trend of the industry.

According to my understanding, the main fresh products preservation technology of a company is trying to nanotechnology preservation packaging. According to the relevant personnel, the use of nanotechnology green inorganic packaging box, non-toxic, tasteless, not only can inhibit the box of food (such as fruits and vegetables) breathing, but also adsorption of fruits and vegetables breathing out of the gas, so as to regulate the internal temperature, and effectively extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. In addition, the entire transportation process, without any refrigerant, also play a role in saving energy.

Safe and Reliable

As we know, food can not be separated from the packaging, and most of the packaging materials are directly or indirectly in contact with the product, food packaging in the harmful substance residue is too high, in the food migration and lead to food safety incidents have occurred repeatedly.

In addition, the basic function of packaging is to protect the safety of food, however, some food packaging not only does not play a role in protecting food, but also due to the packaging itself is not qualified and contaminated food. Therefore, the non-toxicity and harmlessness of food packaging materials play a crucial role in ensuring food safety.

A few days ago, an important new national standard for food contact materials has been fully implemented, which clearly requires that food contact materials and products on the final product, should indicate “food contact with” “food packaging with” or similar terms, or printing and labeling spoon chopsticks logo, to a certain extent, to protect food packaging materials. To a certain extent to protect the safety of food packaging materials.