The future of the metal packaging industry.


The metal packaging has capital intensive, technology intensive, domestic demand type mainly, the export is auxiliary, the product substitution is high, the market seasonal change is big, the market concentration degree higher industry characteristic.

Metal packaging products can be subdivided into printing products (listening, box), cans (including aluminium cans, steel cans, tin three cans, aerosol cans made fine medicinal (tin cans, pesticides, cosmetics pot, etc.), food cans, cans, liquid or solid food cans, etc.) and all kinds of caps (horse mouth crown cover, unscrew the cap, aluminum cap). There are also 1-18 litres of tinplate made of chemical barrels and cold rolled plates, zinc plates made of 20-200 litres of steel barrels. In addition, the aluminum foil and steel strapping of metal containers are not yet available.

Metal packaging is an important component of China's packaging industry, the output value of about 10% of the total output value of China's packaging industry, mainly for food, canned, beverage, oil, chemical industry, medicine and cosmetics and other industries to provide packaging services. From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, metal containers flourished. In recent years, with the development of technology and the strengthening of industry management, the market order has been further improved and will gradually enter a period of stable and orderly development.

China's metal packaging industry.

At present, China's metal container manufacturing equipment has a strong capability. The two cans have 26 production lines, with annual production capacity of more than 12 billion (currently about 7 billion in the market). The three-piece tin can manufacturing equipment has been equipped with various types of imported and domestic full-automatic resistance welding machines, and its products are about 4 billion in a year, and the canned food industry is about 3.8 billion. The annual output of aerosol cans can reach 600 million. There are more than 200 production lines of crown cover in China, and more than 90% of the equipment is imported from abroad, and the annual market demand is 35 billion. The annual processing capacity of steel barrel is about 40-50 million. It has more than 400 production lines, imported equipment and domestic equipment in half, printing more than 15 billion printing presses annually. The annual demand is about 1.4 million tons. With the improvement of the production capacity of domestic tin-iron, the import of tin-iron will be gradually reduced, and it will soon be self-sufficient, but some high-end products need to be imported in small quantities.

Chinese metal packaging market demand.

In terms of per capita consumption, China's metal packaging market has great potential. About 410 billion metal cans are produced each year around the world. There are about 320 billion cans of soda cans, 75 billion cans of food and 10 billion spray cans. The annual sales volume of beverage cans and food cans in Europe is 33 billion and 27 billion respectively. The growth rates of Asian beverage cans and food cans in the past 10 years were: 250% of the beverage cans, 63% of the three cans and 71% of the food cans. The annual consumption of Chinese beverage cans is 11 billion cans (two cans of seven billion and three cans of four billion), per capita consumption is less than 8 cans, while Japan's annual consumption is 18 billion cans, and South Korea is 3.2 billion cans. If China's annual per capita consumption rose to 10 cans, it would require 13 billion cans of supply each year. In addition, the consumption level of canned food in China is low, the per capita annual consumption is less than 1.5kg, the average annual consumption level of canned food in Europe is 50kg, and the annual consumption level of Japan is 23 kg. At present, China's metal packaging market shows a trend of oversupply, but there is still a lot of room for development from the analysis of per capita consumption.

The biggest users of China's metal packaging are the food industry, followed by chemicals, and cosmetics and medicines account for a certain proportion. With the continuous development of China's national economy and the continued growth of the people's consumption, the rapid development of the upstream related industries will push the metal packaging industry out of the trough. The current beverage industry developing rapidly, the brand times out, although use the packaging such as plastic bottles, glass bottles, composite paper occupies a share, but two piece cans, three cans is still dominant, such as metal cans packaging of beer market share is growing. The demand for metal barrels can be doubled in oils, chemicals, petroleum products, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and other industries. In 2001, the total output of metal packaging products reached 2.05 million tons (including cold and hot rolled plates), and it is expected to reach 2.88 million tons by 2005. At the beginning of the new century, China's accession to the wto, metal packaging industry to improve the level of industrialization, improve the comprehensive strength of the industry, seize the opportunity of western development, create the benign development of the vast space.

The development direction of China's metal packaging industry.

First, establish a domestic brand, promote strong and strong joint, enhance the enterprise competitive strength.

Secondly, the technology of metal packaging in China is close to the international level, and it is still necessary to improve the product quality, use ultra-thin tinplate and aluminum, and carry out technical transformation and development of new products.

In addition, it is necessary to solve some of the most important problems of food and beverage cans, such as leaky can and easy to open cover.