Problems and prospects in the development of food packaging machinery

The food and packaging machinery industry, as an industry providing equipment for the food industry, was formed in the late 1970s and early 1980s After the rapid development in the 1980s and the rapid growth in the 1990s, it has entered a critical period of structural adjustment, product quality upgrading and innovation capacity improvement through introduction, digestion and absorption, and domestic production The food and packaging machinery industry, as an industry providing equipment for the food industry, was formed in the late 1970s and early 1980s After the rapid development in the 1980s and the rapid growth in the 1990s, it has entered a critical period of structural adjustment, product quality upgrading and innovation capacity improvement through introduction, digestion and absorption, and domestic production Automatic packaging machine is generally divided into semi-automatic packaging machine and automatic packaging machine The machine that supplies packaging materials (containers) and contents manually, but can automatically complete other packaging processes is called semi-automatic packaging machine; the machine that automatically completes main packaging processes and other auxiliary packaging processes is called full-automatic packaging machine In the past five years, the food packaging machinery industry has developed at an average annual growth rate of 11% ~ 12% In 2005, the total output value of the whole industry of food and packaging machinery was nearly 40 billion yuan, which has become one of the 14 major industries in the machinery industry system, and has initially met the needs of China's food industry At present, there are more than 5000 manufacturers of packaging equipment in China, with an annual output of more than 200000 sets and a product variety of more than 3700 In addition to meeting domestic needs, there are also a certain number of exports In 2002, China's import and export of food and packaging machinery totaled US $2.14 billion, including US $1.54 billion in imports and US $600 million in exports, with imports still larger than exports The main problems of food packaging machinery are: there is a big gap with foreign products China's food packaging machinery has made great achievements in recent years, but there is still a 20-year technical gap compared with foreign products More single machines, less complete sets; more main machines, less auxiliary machines; more products with low technology content, less products with high technology, high added value and high productivity; more general models, less models with special requirements and special materials processing The quality gap of mechanical products mainly lies in: poor stability and reliability, backward modeling, rough appearance, short service life of basic parts and supporting parts, short trouble free operation time, the vast majority of products have not yet formulated reliability standards, product performance compared with similar products abroad, low production capacity and high energy consumption The better hourly production capacity of products is only 1 / 2 of the advanced level of foreign countries, and the energy consumption is much higher than that of foreign advanced products At present, only 5% of China's food and packaging machinery reached the level of 1990s, 20% reached the level of 1980s, and 60% reached the level of 1970s The ability of scientific research and development is low Most of China's food processing and packaging machinery manufacturing enterprises belong to small and medium-sized enterprises, basically do not have the ability of independent research and development Due to insufficient investment in scientific research and imperfect experimental conditions of research institutes and colleges and universities, the products in China's market are mainly domestic products of imitation, mapping or slight transformation, the main technology of industry depends on foreign countries, and there are few products with independent intellectual property rights According to the regulations, the investment in technology development can account for 3% of the sales revenue, but most enterprises invest very little capital, which can not guarantee the development of new products and technologies Lack of innovation in product development, backward development means, and failure to timely provide products in line with market demand.