The exquisite packaging can not only beautify the life and prosper the market, but also the environmental protection, standardization, safety and aesthetics of the packaged products will directly affect whether the new products can enter the market smoothly and be accepted by consumers.
Paper packaging accounts for about 50% of the world's packaging and is the most widely used packaging. In China, paper packaging accounts for about 30% of the total output value of the packaging industry, ranking first. In Western developed countries, carton box packaging has emerged from numerous packaging materials and gradually became the mainstream of packaging. This is by no means accidental, but because of the many advantages of the carton box itself.
When choosing product packaging, eco-design is the first choice
The ecological design of packaging is based on certain target requirements. It fully considers the entire life cycle process of the packaged product, and has an impact on resource consumption and ecological balance. It must be conducive to the protection of the environment and to the conservation of resources, and it should be selected based on the data provided by the LCA assessment. Packaging materials and packaging design methods. The ecological design of packaging should consider the balance and unity of functional and environmental adaptability. Considering the environmental impact of the entire life cycle, the following links can be taken into consideration during design.
Packaging materials and packaging structure design: To implement the quality of weight, material reduction, to avoid over-packing the bed house.
With environmental protection and energy becoming more and more noticed today, the choice of materials should be easy to recycle and use, and the selected materials should have a long lifespan. In the case of ease of use, the quality ratio of contents and packaging materials should be maximized; Low-density, high-performance, lightweight packaging materials; use materials that have a low total energy consumption during the material life cycle. Of course, the choice of packaging material must meet the functional requirements of the package, that is, to meet the physical properties of the contents and have an effective protection function.
Packaging process design: Considering the requirements of manpower, material resources, energy consumption and environmental protection, clean technology must be implemented. For the “three wastes”, there must be measures for governance and reuse, and for the human body, there must be protection and health measures. Process design must reflect the idea of pollution prevention.
The quality value of packaging containers and the design of logistics and transportation: modern logistics transportation includes the convenience of transportation, warehousing, and storage as well as the automation, mechanization, security, high-efficiency and beauty of information (computer bar code), so the quality and value of packaging containers Transportation packaging design should have excellent comprehensive protection and reasonable structural design, and ultimately standardize the packaging, storage and transportation standards, and comply with quality, environmental protection, safety and other regulations or international standards.
Packaging waste disposal, design of environmental protection signs: The ecological design of packaging should fully consider the disposal methods of packaging waste recycling, packaging recycling identification, environmental protection signs and other issues, which should be taken into account when designing products.
Carton box packaging advantages
Low price and economical savings: Paper and cardboard are rich in raw materials, widely sourced, easy to mass produce, and have low production costs. In the same packaging box, wooden boxes made directly from wood are compared with cartons made of wood and paper. The materials used in cartons are only about one third of the wooden boxes, thus saving energy and costs. The cartons are lightweight, about 15% of the wooden boxes, which can reduce packaging costs and transportation costs.
Good protection performance: Compared with other materials packaging containers, paper containers have strong cushioning and shock absorption properties, and the cartons are tight and seamless, and they can be shading and dustproof. Due to the adoption of many new technologies and the development of new varieties, cartons are comparable to wooden boxes in terms of strength, stiffness, and moisture resistance.
High production flexibility: paper can be cut, folded, easy to stick, easy to nail, suitable for mechanized processing and automated production; can also be a small-scale non-mechanized production, or even manual production.
Convenient storage and transportation: Paper containers are light in weight, flexible in folding, easy to load and bundle, and easier to handle and store.
Easy to shape and fit: Paper products can be designed according to different products, a variety of boxes, boxes. Paper and paperboard have good ink absorption performance, good printing performance, clear printed characters, vivid patterns, firmness, and exquisiteness.
The product is environmentally friendly and non-polluting: paper has the advantages of hygiene, non-toxicity, tastelessness, etc. The carton can be completely sealed, so it will not contaminate the contents, and the paper also meets the storage conditions of products with respiration.
Energy-saving and environmental protection, can be recycled: paper can be directly recycled, or recycled paper waste, no pollution to the environment, paper packaging is recognized worldwide as environmentally friendly packaging.
Due to the above advantages, paper product packaging has received more and more attention. In recent years, paper and carton color boxes have stimulated the development of many new products in the competition of other packaging materials. The continuous development of new paper products, the application of various functional papers, and the extension of corrugated products have added new luster and vitality to the packaging of paper products. All this shows that paper, carton box and paper product packaging are the main green packaging materials.
