China paper products packaging industry development overview

Paper product packaging refers to the base paper as the main raw material, through printing, molding and other processing procedures made for the protection and promotion of the packaging of various products, including cartons, cartons, paper cups (bowls), paper bags, paper cans, pulp molding, etc.

According to the different packaging materials, the packaging industry is divided into paper packaging, plastic packaging (including plastic film), metal packaging and glass packaging and other packaging, of which paper packaging has always occupied a major position in the packaging industry.

According to the China Packaging Federation data, 2023 paper and cardboard container manufacturing revenue accounted for 23.25% of the total revenue of China's packaging industry, is the largest segment of the packaging industry, in 2023 China's paper and cardboard container manufacturing enterprises above the scale of the main business income reached 268.257 billion yuan.

Paper packaging has the advantages of low cost, resource saving, good mechanical processing performance, can adapt to mechanized large-scale production, easy to print, non-toxic and harmless when used, easy to recycle and so on.

With the development of new processes, new technologies and new equipment, paper packaging has become the "green packaging" under the current situation of energy conservation and environmental pollution prevention in the world, which has a broader space than traditional plastic packaging and metal packaging.