Plastic Packaging Machinery Industry Urgently Needs Change

In recent years, food safety problems caused by plastic packaging have long been commonplace. In September 2011, CCTV Finance Channel’s “Consumer Advocacy” section revealed that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was a large amount of plasticizers in the moon cake tray. In June of this year, the media exposure of the Wufang Zhaizi mold was confirmed by the illegal use of plastic packaging. In August, the investigation of the food packaging quality of the International Food Packaging Association revealed that the evaporation residues of disposable plastic tableware in a number of large chain supermarkets in Guangdong exceeded the standard.

China's packaging industry has developed well. In 2010, it achieved an industrial output value of 1.2 trillion yuan. "The plastic packaging industry has already ranked second in the industry, and Zhejiang is also ranked second in the country after Guangdong." Zhejiang Packaging Technology Zhang Yaoquan, president of the association, said.

However, as prices have risen across the country, the issue of wages has once again become a topic of discussion. The labor system is once again facing reforms. The increase in labor costs, the continuous increase in the economic factors of enterprises, and the increase in the price of steel products have created a huge shortage of raw materials for the packaging industry. For packaging machinery manufacturing companies with low profits, it is aggravated and companies face multiple difficulties that need to be solved.

Enterprises cannot cope with changes in the situation, and ideological concepts are incompatible with the development of the situation; the status quo of talented teams does not adapt to the urgent needs of people for the development of enterprises; the understanding and use of people is incompatible with the laws of market economy. The technological innovation capability is weak, the progress of process technology is slow, and new product development has not yet fundamentally escaped from the situation of imitation tracking. There is little investment in R&D. The mode of economic growth is extensive, the profitability of products is low, and the competitiveness is not strong. The economic growth and efficiency improvement are still mainly driven by the scale. There is still a certain gap between the consumption of resources such as energy and labor and the advanced level. Extensive corporate management, fine management has not yet been achieved. Market awareness, competition awareness, and a sense of urgency are not strong. The sense of service market, customer service, and sense of urgency and responsibility are not strong.

Zhang Yaoquan pointed out that the plastic packaging industry that was planned into the equipment manufacturing industry in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” was the next major task in researching and developing new plastic molding equipment, gradually narrowing the gap with foreign manufacturers, and competing in the market with it. Plastic packaging companies need to change their business development methods. Enterprises must take a new starting point to review and resolve the above contradictions and problems, take the scientific concept of development as the guide, change the concept of development, strengthen independent innovation, increase market awareness, and promote enterprises effectively. development of.