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China metal packaging industry development opportunities and prospects

China's packaging industry (referring to mainland China) has developed rapidly in recent years, compound annual growth rate of 21%, is expected to speed the next five years will maintain rapid growth, China packaging industry in 2012 is expected to exceed 1 trillion of total revenues.

First, sustained and healthy development of metal packaging industry

China's packaging industry (referring to mainland China) has developed rapidly in recent years, from 2003 to 2007 sales were 240 billion yuan, 270 billion yuan, 360 billion yuan, 440 billion yuan and 510 billion yuan, compound annual growth rate of 21 % the next five years is expected to continue to maintain a rapid rate, in 2012 the total revenue of China packaging industry is expected to exceed 1 trillion.

China's packaging industry, including paper packaging, plastic packaging, metal packaging, glass packaging, packaging printing, packaging and other packaging machinery in seven sub-sectors:

Metal packaging industry is an important part of packaging, metal packaging from 2003 to 2007 accounted for sales of the packaging industry revenue rising sales in 2003 to 2007 compound annual growth rate of 23%. In 2007, metal packaging tin prices to overcome, transportation costs, energy shortages and other difficulties, production and sales continued to maintain strong growth momentum, the basic realization of the scale and efficiency simultaneously improve the whole industry realized sales income of 46.3 billion yuan, an increase of 18%. Total profit of 1.64 billion yuan, total assets reached 40.2 billion yuan, up 11.5%, the industry showed steady increase in the development of the new period, and is expected to remain in the next five years, rapid growth rate.

After 30 years of reform and opening up the development of China's economic and consumption growth to the growth of packaging industry and improving the quality of packaging products. Metal packaging because of its good sealing and with the bright patterns in the food, beverage, supplies and household products are widely used. Food and drink has become the largest market for metal packaging, chemicals, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries are an important market for metal packaging.

China metal packaging industry in India has been formed, including coated iron pot, the system covers, pail full of metal packaging products such as industrial system. The main products can be divided into: India coated iron, beverage cans (including two pieces of aluminum beverage cans, steel cans two, three-piece tinplate cans), food cans (food cans and milk cans general), aerosol cans (tin made of medicinal pot, pesticide cans, cosmetics cans, industrial and home care cans, etc.), chemical tank, 200 liters steel drums and metal cover products (Crown cans, rotating cans, cans, etc.) metal packaging product line rich in applications is very wide.

China metal packaging industry than in the U.S., Japan and other developed countries, there are still vast room for development. For example, the United States in 2006 of metal cans, metal containers and other metal cap, such as sales revenue of about 16.2 billion U.S. dollars, equivalent to 126.5 billion yuan. U.S. metal packaging consumption per capita in 2006 equivalent to 420 yuan, while China metal packaging consumption per capita over the same period was only 30. From specific products such as beverage cans, China's per capita consumption in 2006 only 17 cans, 380 cans per capita than the U.S. domestic market potential.

Comprehensive development from the industry and 2007 performance of view, metal packaging has entered the sound, sustained development of the basic form, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong, including the large Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Beijing Tianjin Bohai Sea Triangle Tang three metal packaging industry with a focus, and the emergence of the eastern coastal areas to central China, southwest regions, the South developed areas to the north to expand the trend of metal packaging to further improve regional development. Scattered backward from the metal packaging industry has certainly developed into a modern technical equipment, a relatively complete industrial system integrity, a number of new products across regions, large scale-effective metal packaging leading enterprises have begun to emerge, especially in food packaging , Ball Asia Pacific and ORG.

Second, the main problems of metal packaging

After rapid development of metal packaging, has formed a complete industrial system and the categories, but with the international developed countries, and social development and economic growth and export packaging requirements of the ever-changing and upgrading than the quality variety, new product technology content, technology development level and size of metal packaging layout, personnel and other aspects of the gap with foreign countries is also large, there is still much to be desired, mainly:

1. Diseconomies of scale enterprise development: metal packaging business to small and medium-based, industry concentration is not high, main businesses, with independent intellectual property rights and core competitiveness of the world metal packaging enterprise groups have not formed, the metal packaging industry in comparison Other packaging industry is still in growth stage. At present, China 1,400 years, consumption of tin metal packaging enterprises reached 1.4 million tons, less than 60 tons or more enterprises, only 4%, the average annual consumption of each company was only 1,000 tons of tin.

2. Homogeneous competition, lack of creativity: metal packaging, packaging manufacturers and we are used to attach importance to investment, but the process, technology, management and packaging design of the independent intellectual property rights of inputs and services in the small sum, the gap with foreign countries is Great. Benefit from the industry perspective, Western Europe, the current average unit tin metal packaging supplies to create effective 320 million yuan / tons, but China the target of 1.9 billion yuan / tons, metal packaging industry in Western Europe unit of income than China, and 70%. See the number of patents from the metal packaging, metal packaging in China is among the top two companies hold less than 20 patents, and the Japanese Toyo Seikan number of patents registered in China reached 58, so the domestic metal packaging company must increase investment in research and development, with their own R & D capability of metal packaging company in the next competition with the dominant position.

Third, the development prospects of metal packaging

1. Market environment is getting better, there is great potential and room to grow. China is a huge population of 1.3 billion consumers with a wealth of industrial products, agricultural products and exports of resources, in addition to the rapid development of the beverage industry, the chemical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical development of new industries such as metal packaging provides a huge room for growth . And the 2008 Olympics, 2010 World Expo and multinational investment in China are enormous growth in demand driven by packing, the next 5 to 10 years will be the strategic development of metal packaging opportunities. According to the 2007 sales revenue of China metal packaging industry to judge trends in 2015 will far exceed the national annual sales of the original planning objectives.

At present, China's per capita consumption of packaging products per capita GDP levels and the relationship with international big difference in the metal packaging industry in China has great potential, especially after China joined the WTO's economic development, business competition will shift from price competition, brand competition, service competition scale competition of strength. This is the development of China's packaging industry has brought a new growth opportunities.

2. Scale, specialization is the development direction of modern metal packaging. Metal packaging industry the next 3 to 5 years will face large-scale, group, professional and lean manufacturing and clean production and enhance the overall transformation: from a single manufacturer to the development of trans-regional group; from extensive management to fine , digital and scientific change, to improve industry management and the barriers to entry, reducing the gap with foreign countries. Own brand and intellectual property rights of metal packaging companies can choose a small packaging company through acquisition and gradually developed into a large metal packaging group.

3. Metal packaging reduction and energy saving, as well as around the development of recycling economy promotion of metal packaging industry upgrading.

Countries have introduced and implemented recycling economy and clean production legislation, the development of relevant standards, cleaner production, control waste and reduce emissions of harmful substances to special support, is expected to UV printing, computer networks and digital printing technologies will be widely used . Promotion of efficiency and speed reduction and energy saving, reduction of resource consumption, saving enterprise, the development of circular economy and achieve sustainable development.

Fourth, China Metal Packaging Development

1. Seize opportunities, increase investment, expand the scale. Seize market opportunities, in equipment, technology, management and personnel and so increase investment, reduce the gap with foreign similar companies, to ensure economies of scale economy to benefit from the amount of economic change.

2. Technological progress, brand building, marketing models and advanced intensive SMEs integration, the implementation of "joint development" to enhance and strengthen the overall level of metal packaging, competition and cooperation with multinational companies gained the ability.

In addition to hardware equipment, technical progress, but also pay attention to product design process, process reengineering; focus on brand building to create a national brand of Chinese metal packaging; advanced marketing mode is to sell products from the original single solution to customers and provide value-added service transformation; SMEs focus of intensive integration of joint innovation, quantity to quality, win-win cooperation through joint implementation.

3. Strengthen pollution reduction and energy and clean production, creating green businesses and green products. Around the metal packaging material consumption, the proportion of high cost, increase the "reduction" and "thin wall" of development and research, focusing on reducing the consumption of metal packaging materials, the rate of consumption of auxiliary materials to reduce rates, reduce the rate of energy consumption , the consumption of public resources to reduce the rate of utilization of waste materials, recycling of materials processing and other aspects.

4. Metal packaging company for the interests of the core, creating communities of interest. Drawing on international experience and practice of metal packaging, combined with China's reality, actively coordinate the industrial chain, to form a packaging container manufactured as a leader, the joint system of cover plants, printing, coating plant, combined aluminum, steel and other raw materials manufacturers, packaging machinery and other equipment combined enterprises, closely related industrial chain formed to enhance the ability to meet challenges and risks.

5. Strengthen exchanges and cooperation. Exchange and cooperation, including alliances and exchanges between enterprises, between enterprises and the upstream and downstream industries, domestic and foreign metal packaging industry, between companies and the exchanges and cooperation between institutions to promote the metal packaging industry, health, sustainable and rapid development.