December 23, 2024

China's packaging machinery development speed

Packaging machinery refers to machinery that can complete all or part of the product and product packaging process. The packaging process includes major processes such as filling, wrapping, and sealing, as well as related processes such as cleaning, stacking, and disassembling. In addition, the packaging also includes the steps of metering or stamping the package. The use of mechanical packaging products can increase productivity, reduce labor intensity, adapt to the needs of large-scale production, and meet the requirements of cleanliness and hygiene.

The development of packaging machinery provides the necessary guarantees for the modern processing and mass production of foods and pharmaceuticals. Due to the peculiarity of drug production, the packaging of medicines from materials to packaging methods, from environmental requirements to label processing, is more stringent than food packaging, and the restrictions are even more stringent. This makes the pharmaceutical packaging machinery develop into a relatively independent machinery industry.

Small and scattered situation to be broken

From a broad perspective, after the founding of New China, China's basic packaging machinery industry began its development. After more than half a century of development, there is still a considerable gap between the international advanced level and the advanced level. Among them, only corrugated-carton packaging machinery and some small-scale packaging machines occupy a certain scale and advantages in China. In addition, some high-tech packaging equipment still need to rely on imports.

According to statistics, in 2005 China's packaging machinery production reached 670,000 units (sets), and by 2010 it will increase to 930,000 units (sets). At present, China's packaging machinery has become one of the ten industries in the machinery industry. However, the export value of China's packaging machinery is still less than 5% of the industry's total output value, but the import value is about the same as the total output value.

Take a set of data from China's packaging machinery import and export from April to August 2006 as an example. During this period of time, China exported 5,481 sets of container washing or drying equipment, and the total export value reached US$482,793. Although only 345 imported similar equipments were imported, the total import amount was US$10,571,652. Packaging, labelling, and filling machines are products of relatively large export volume in China. In the four months, they exported a total of 488,056 units and exported a total of 11,064,972 U.S. dollars. However, 2,878 units of similar equipment were imported, but the total import volume reached 44,000,035 US dollars. Fillers and packaging machines exported 65,324 units, which totaled US$25,350,635. Imported 566 units totaled 39,213,071 units.

From this set of data, it can be seen that the average price of a single set of imported equipment is US$2,475,1.8. The import destination is mainly concentrated in developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan. The average price of a single set of Chinese exports is 66.02 yuan, and the export destination is mainly concentrated in Africa and Middle East and other places. Although the total number of export equipment in China is 558,861 sets and imports only 3,789 sets, the average price of imported sets is 678 times the average price of export sets. This shows that China's export structure presents a "small and scattered" situation, mainly single product; while imported mostly complete or large equipment. It can be seen that China's current export of packaging machinery compared with imports, both in terms of product quality, quantity, and technical content, have a considerable gap with foreign products.

From the perspective of product structure, there are about 1,300 varieties of packaging machinery in China, with a small number of supporting products, and lack of high-precision and large-scale products, which can not meet the market demand: the gap in product quality is manifested in poor product performance stability and reliability, appearance appearance is not beautiful, the surface Rough handling, poor quality of many components, short life, and low reliability affect the overall product quality; from the perspective of the company, there is a shortage of leading enterprises in the domestic packaging machinery industry, and there are not many enterprises with large production scale and high product quality; In terms of development, China has basically remained at the imitation stage. Its self-development ability is weak. Scientific research funds account for only 1% of sales, while foreign countries account for 8% to 10%. In general, China's packaging machinery is at a disadvantage compared to internationally advanced products in terms of product development, performance, quality, reliability, and service.

Pharmaceutical packaging machinery is a branch of general packaging machinery with high technical content and requirements. Since pharmaceutical equipment is an important part of GMP hardware, since the introduction of the GMP mandatory certification system in China, pharmaceutical manufacturers around the world have accelerated the pace of technological transformation, and major upgrades in production equipment have brought about favorable conditions for the pharmaceutical industry's upstream industry pharmaceutical machinery industry. The transformation of a large number of production lines has brought a huge market for pharmaceutical machinery companies. For example, the series of washing, bottling, sealing, and sealing of Anxi (water needles) introduced and developed by the Changsha Traditional Chinese Medicine Machinery Factory end the decades of stand-alone production history in China. After several improvements, the product has sold more than 600 production lines and exported to nearly 20 countries including Brazil, Russia, Pakistan and Iran.

Of course, on the whole, at present, the research and development of most of China's most advanced packaging technologies with data technology are still in the imitation class, and the capacity for independent development is still very limited. To this end, many large foreign companies have introduced their own technologies and components into China and processed them locally, thereby reducing costs and launching fierce competition with local products.

According to statistics, as early as 2003, the global pharmaceutical packaging market reached 11.2 billion U.S. dollars, with an average annual increase of nearly 5%. In 2006, it was estimated to have exceeded US$13 billion. The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy occupy the largest market share in the world pharmaceutical packaging industry, while China is the fastest growing country. According to the development speed of China's pharmaceutical industry in recent years, the annual value of pharmaceutical packaging materials will quickly exceed 20 billion yuan in the short term.

At present, the annual output value of the pharmaceutical packaging industry in China is approximately 15 billion yuan, with an annual growth rate of more than 10%. However, it can only meet the needs of about 80% of domestic pharmaceutical companies, and the contribution rate of packaging materials to the pharmaceutical industry is also low. In developed countries, packaging accounts for 30% of the drug value, but in China, this value is less than 10%.

High-precision directions have been made clear

China's packaging machinery to meet the rapid development of the pharmaceutical industry needs and actively participate in international competition, we must break the "small and scattered" industry trend, in the "precision" direction continue to advance. The industry believes that the future packaging industry will cooperate with the trend of industrial automation, in the development of technology toward the diversification of mechanical functions, structural design standardization, modularization, intelligent control, high-precision structural development in several directions.

The packaging chain highly automates most of the packaging work of domestic pharmaceutical companies. In particular, the arrangement and assembly of more complex packaging items are basically manual operations, and it is difficult to ensure the unity and stability of the packaging, which may result in contamination of the packaged products. Some pharmaceutical companies use packaging machinery only for a certain part of the entire packaging chain. For example, the front packaging adopts mechanical packaging, while the latter packaging uses manual labor. Therefore, improving the automation level and quality level of the entire packaging chain is a very important part of modern pharmaceutical companies to implement GMP regulations. Every manipulator of a truly modern packaging machine should be controlled by a computer and have a high resolution of material and thickness.

The diversified medical products with mechanical functions have been trending toward refinement and diversification. The number of single-species, high-volume products has become less and less, and products with many varieties and small batches have increasingly become mainstream. Under the changing trend of the big environment, a diversified, multi-switching function that can adapt to a variety of packaging materials and mold replacement packaging machine can adapt to the needs of the market. For example, in a blister packaging machine, both "aluminum" and "aluminum" packaging can be carried out, and it is required that the switching is simple, and that less molds need to be replaced. At present, the time for changing the mold is generally 1 to 2 hours. Such a long time cannot meet the production requirements of many varieties and small batches.

Structural Design Standard Modularization For traditional industrial design, if you want to introduce a new model, you need to do a lot of heavy work, but also rely on new equipment to recover the high design costs, thus driving up the price of new models. The design of the future should adopt the design concept of standardization and modularization. It can make full use of the original organic modular design. It can be converted into a new model in a short time, and the price of the new model can be controlled within a reasonable range. Inside.

The intelligent control system for control functions is the brain of the mechanical equipment and is the core device for issuing motion instructions. Currently, pharmaceutical packaging machinery manufacturers generally use programmable controllers (PLC controllers), which do not have the powerful functions of industrial PCs. For most conventional mechanical control devices, the use of a PLC is appropriate because there are a limited number of control parameters that need to be controlled mechanically in many places. For example, torque control uses mechanical clutches to overload the motor. However, with the increase in the degree of automation of the equipment, more and more computer-controlled devices, the number of various sensing components, detection components, control components, and actuators applied to the device is very large. At this time, PLC cannot do so much. The parameters are managed and controlled, and the industrial PC will be the best choice.

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