The Chinese canning industry has broad development prospects, but various challenges it faces also constrain its development.
1. The industry is overly dispersed, with most canning enterprises mainly consisting of small and medium-sized enterprises and private enterprises, and there is no centralized industrial production;
2. The industry lacks innovation, and many companies follow the trend to manufacture similar products. Although they win with low prices, consumers are prone to visual fatigue;
3. With the continuous increase in the prices of metal raw materials such as tinplate and aluminum, canning enterprises also need to raise the cost of manufacturing metal cans, resulting in resource waste.
4. Lack of genuine national brands. Most canning companies serve large upstream enterprises and rarely create their own brands. They need to deeply explore customer needs and strive to create benefits for customers.
At present, packaging machinery products in China are facing fierce international competition due to their limited variety, low technological level, and poor product reliability. Especially in the past five years, China has accelerated the development of deep processing of agricultural products, built a conservation oriented society, developed a circular economy, and increased technological innovation, resulting in a new wave of technology introduction. In recent years, China's total investment in deep processing of agricultural products has reached over 32 billion yuan, and more than 80% of processing and canning equipment is imported.
In recent years, second-hand canning equipment abroad has developed some new characteristics. The development focus of packaging machinery in China is on corrugated cardboard production lines, box making, and printing complete sets of equipment; Environmentally friendly packaging machinery, etc. For the packaging of electromechanical products, we will focus on promoting the pilot work of "professional fixed-point, qualification certification, unified standards, international integration, and expanding exports".
In recent years, foreign canning equipment has developed new characteristics, mainly in terms of high production efficiency. The production line is highly automated and the production scale is scaled up to achieve optimal labor productivity and economic benefits; The second is the high utilization rate of resources, the comprehensive utilization of resources, and the development of circular economy; _Secondly, the product attaches great importance to energy conservation and cost reduction; The fourth is the practical application of high-tech, improving production efficiency, and upgrading the level and grade of products; The fifth is the commercialization of scientific research achievements, which promotes the development of packaging machinery products towards knowledge intensive, technology comprehensive, and product intelligence.