The rapidly developing packaging industry in 2022

With the continuous growth of the global economy, the demand for product packaging has been continuously driven, providing a broad space for the development of the paper industry in Asian countries. At present, China, Japan and South Korea have become important packaging production and consumption countries in the world, and paper production and consumption have always ranked first in the world.

With the continuous reform of environmental governance in various countries, papermaking enterprises have become the focus of attention. Small paper mills with heavy pollution have been forced to withdraw from the market, and many papermaking enterprises have suffered losses. According to statistics from China Quantuo, the operating income of Chinese papermaking enterprises continues to decline. In 2021, the operating income of Chinese papermaking enterprises will be 130.127 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 2.2%. The estimated operating income in 2022 will be 116.33 billion US dollars. Although many paper-making enterprises have gone bankrupt due to environmental protection, the concentration of paper-making enterprises has been improved. It is expected that the business revenue of large paper-making enterprises will increase in the future, which will drive the revenue of the main business of the entire industry to rise.

Judging from the consumption of paper packaging in China, it has been rising year by year after the decline. The consumption of paper and cardboard in China has reached 107.79 million tons. It is expected that the consumption of paper and cardboard in China will reach 108.52 million tons in 2022.

Judging from the proportion of the consumption of various varieties of paper and cardboard in China to the total output, the consumption of paper and cardboard has the highest proportion of boxboard and corrugated paper, accounting for 22.3%, followed by uncoated printing and writing paper, accounting for 16.2% %, followed by whiteboard paper, accounting for 11.9%, household paper accounting for 8.6%, and packaging paper 6.5%.

As a kind of packaging, it mainly plays the role of storage and protection during transportation, and its printed content also plays the role of beautifying the appearance, displaying products, and advertising. Compared with metal, plastic and glass packaging products, paper packaging has the characteristics of light weight, recyclability, easy degradation, etc., which can achieve a positive impact on the environment, and paper printing mainly uses non-toxic and easily decomposed environmentally friendly water-based inks, so Corrugated paper is currently recognized as a "green packaging product" and is widely used in downstream industries such as home appliances, electronic products, IT, food and beverage, books, daily chemicals, and textiles.

The low-carbon circular economy is one of the major trends in the future development of various countries. From the input of raw materials, to the design and manufacture of packaging products, to the recycling of products, every link of green packaging products will be more energy-saving, efficient and harmless, in line with the international goals of energy conservation and emission reduction. Therefore, the production and application of packaging is an area that is currently encouraged to develop, and there will be more market space in the future.

At present, a complete and reasonable industrial system has been formed in China, Japan, South Korea and other packaging industries. In the Internet era, intelligent manufacturing has become the main trend of the development and integration of enterprise production technology. In addition, the development of the Internet has led to the rapid outbreak of the e-commerce industry, which plays an important role in driving the development of the packaging industry.

From the perspective of the application field of paper packaging, home appliance electronic packaging is currently the most widely used, accounting for 32.5%, followed by beverage packaging, accounting for 21.2%, food packaging third, accounting for 20.3%, express packaging and Daily chemical packaging tied for fourth, accounting for 13%.