Is there still a market for plastic products under the pressure of environmental protection?
Time:
2023-04-26
With the continuous improvement of environmental awareness, plastic products are facing unprecedented pressure. Plastic pollution has become a global problem, and many countries and regions have begun to take measures to limit or ban the use of disposable plastic products. In this context, people's demand for plastic products is gradually decreasing, which brings certain challenges to the market of plastic products.
As one of the pillar industries of the light industry , the plastics industry has maintained a growth rate of more than 10% in recent years. While maintaining a relatively fast development speed, the economic benefits have also been newly improved. The total output value of enterprises above designated size in the plastic products industry ranks third among the 19 major industries in the light industry, achieving a product sales rate of 97.8%, which is higher than the average level of the light industry. Judging from the production of synthetic resin, plastic machinery and plastic products, it shows the strong development momentum of China's plastics industry. From January to December 2007, China's plastic products enterprises achieved a total industrial output value of 801,815,657 thousand yuan, an increase of 27.06% over the same period of the previous year; Year-on-year growth of 22.16%.
Plastic bottles are made of polyester (PET), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) as raw materials, after adding corresponding organic solvents, after high temperature heating, through plastic molds through blow molding, extrusion blowing, or injection molding plastic container. It is mainly used for liquid or solid disposable plastic packaging containers for beverages, food, pickles, honey, fruit edible oil, agricultural and veterinary drugs, etc. Plastic bottles have the characteristics of unbreakable, low cost, high transparency, and food-grade raw materials.
With the development of plastic bottle packaging materials and packaging technology , plastic bottles are widely used in the packaging of cosmetics and washing products. The plastic materials with low price, abundant sources and good molding performance can be manufactured into plastic bottles of various structures and shapes. Ordinary cosmetics , Washing supplies packaging containers, most of them are made of high-density polyethylene. Transparent packaging includes full transparent packaging and partial transparent packaging. Through transparent packaging materials, part or all of the product form of the food inside is displayed, allowing buyers to directly see the image, color and quality of the food. It can not only reflect the natural beauty of the product, It is also convenient for customers to identify and purchase. Such as transparent plastic food bottles, candy jars, wine bottles, etc. can be seen at a glance, so that consumers can't help but give up their money, and sales have soared.
Because transparent plastic bottle containers allow consumers to see the contents clearly, consumers are interested in transparentThe requirements for PP plastic bottle containers are getting wider and wider, and transparent polypropylene is the main material to meet this requirement. The development of PP transparent packaging bottles has become a hot spot in plastic bottle packaging at home and abroad in recent years. Highly transparent polypropylene container, with good transparency and gloss, highly appreciative, very popular.