Look at your side, more and more packaging, especially the packaging of household appliances, open the outer packaging, the inside of the buffer inside the packaging changes quietly, honeycomb paper packaging gradually penetrate into people's lives, replaced It has long been used in packaging to cushion foam packaging that is not conducive to recycling. This will not only reduce the pollution to the environment and reduce the damage to the health of consumers, but also play an environmental role, and the strong plasticity of honeycomb paper can be comparable to that of foamed plastics, and it can match the packaging of various shapes. Apply a fashionable coat to it.
However, it is regrettable that it is understood that because China has no strict regulations on the replacement of foamed plastics with honeycomb paper packaging, the current application has not yet covered the packaging industry. Ye Baijun, secretary general of the Electronic Packaging Committee of the China Packaging Federation, said in an interview with a reporter from the China Press and Newspaper that in recent years, this application has not expanded beyond a wider range. Even companies that have already adopted it have started to give up and used plastics The trend of bubble materials, the reason for this, is due to rising costs.
Many benefits of honeycomb paper packaging
What is honeycomb paper packaging? That is, the kraft paper is processed into a hexagonal structure according to the honeycomb structure principle of nature, and the corrugated base paper is connected into numerous hollow three-dimensional hexagons by means of adhesive bonding to form an integral stress member, a paper core, and is bonded on both sides thereof. A new type of eco-friendly, energy-saving material with a sandwich structure. Simply put, honeycomb paper packaging is divided into inside and outside, not only can be used for the outer packaging box of goods, but also can be used to prevent the goods from being damaged in the transport and placed in the packaging box, wrapped in the buffer of the goods.
As we all know, most of the buffers used in commodity packaging in the past were made of foamed plastic. Because the shapes of the products being packaged are different, the strong plasticity of foamed plastics has led to a large number of applications. However, in recent years, with the promotion of the application of honeycomb paper packaging technology in packaging, honeycomb paper has the potential to replace foam plastics.
Ye Boxi has been committed to promoting the application of honeycomb paper in the packaging of electronic products since the 1980s. He believes that honeycomb paper packaging has many advantages, including light weight, high strength, high rigidity, and excellent cushioning, heat preservation, heat insulation and sound insulation. The performance, through its own special treatment can be flame-retardant, moisture, waterproof, anti-mildew, anti-static and so on. The most important thing is that compared with foamed plastics, honeycomb paperboard products save resources, protect the ecological environment, have a wide range of uses and have a good prospect. According to reports, the use of honeycomb paper packaging materials can also be made into a packing box, in line with the trend of replacing the EPS plastic cushion liner in the development of packaging materials in China. At present, besides being used in electronic product packaging, there are ceramic-made sanitary ware and equipment and other packagings that use honeycomb paper packaging.
Ye Baiqi said frankly that although honeycomb paper packaging has many advantages, it also has its own drawbacks. Since paper is used as a raw material after all, moisture resistance is inferior to that of foamed plastics, and it should not be placed in open air and humid environments for a long time. Compared to some applications where honeycomb walls are used in building structures, the applications in electronics and other internal packagings are relatively low in terms of strength, affordability, and moisture resistance.
Innovative R&D helps break cost barriers
Since it is so good, why isn't the beginning of the article spread to the packaging of all products? "The different packaged products need different internal packaging, and more importantly, the cost and other reasons are the outstanding factors that limit their development." Wu Haiping, executive vice secretary of the China Packaging Federation Paper Product Packaging Committee, accepts "China News." This was answered in an interview with a newspaper reporter. The China Packaging Federation Paper Product Packaging Committee is the authoritative association for the paper product packaging industry in China. However, it is understood that, even so, there are not many members of the production enterprises of honeycomb paper product packaging under the Association. However, because many packaging companies are now looking for transformation and upgrading, honeycomb paper packaging has also become one of the direction of transformation, so this type of enterprise has also become the focus of the current development of corporate objects.
In addition, Wu Haiping believes that honeycomb paper packaging has been developed in China for many years. Another reason why it has not reached the entire packaging industry is the cost factor. Ye Bokai also agreed with this. He said that the cost of ordinary honeycomb paperboard is a little higher than that of foamed plastics. This is precisely because China's household appliances industry is under the backdrop of price war. Some manufacturers have repeatedly reduced the cost to squeeze profit margins, and packaging has become a Sacrifice point. Ye Boxi said that there is even a phenomenon. The production enterprises that originally used honeycomb paper packaging, in order to reduce costs, are not replacing the foamed plastic with more environmentally-friendly honeycomb paper packaging, but instead have picked up the foamed plastic instead of the adopted one. Honeycomb paper.
According to Wu Haiping, at present, Wenzhou corrugated board manufacturers and colleges and universities are doing research and development to ensure that the same packaging effect, under the premise of replacing the honeycomb paper by corrugated paperboard to reduce the high cost caused by honeycomb paper packaging. However, it is still in the R&D stage and there is still a long way to go before it can be mass-produced and put into the market.
Government Supervision Helps Open Two "Window" at Home and Abroad
Honeycomb paper substitute foam plastic is a green packaging alternative. It is understood that some countries in Western Europe have been widely adopted and there are special laws restricting the use of foamed plastics and wood packaging. They can only be replaced with honeycomb paper. This requires that Chinese companies must carry out environmental improvement when selling products to these countries. However, taking a broad view of the domestic industry experts, there is no policy to restrict the use of foamed plastics in China. Although the use of honeycomb paper replaces the packaging of household appliances such as air conditioners and refrigerators, some industries and some products still use foaming materials. plastic. Wu Haiping believes that without mandatory restrictions, manufacturers will consider cost and ease of manufacture as major considerations when choosing honeycomb or foam plastic. Therefore, honeycomb paper packaging will always be rejected due to high cost.
However, if we want to open the larger “window” of domestic “home”, it is a channel to strengthen supervision and change recommended standards to enforce standards. Ye Boxi believes that the reason why honeycomb paper packaging is applied in foreign countries is larger than that in China. Legal and regulatory restrictions are one aspect, and government supervision is equally important. Due to insufficient efforts in both areas, many companies are still using foamed plastics as their inner packaging, and they still wait and see their minds when using honeycomb paperboard products instead of foamed plastics or wooden pallets.
In addition, Ye Boqiong said in an interview that the development of honeycomb paperboard in China has a long history, and has initially formed a certain scale, the development situation is very good, but the two major bottlenecks have seriously hampered the development of honeycomb paperboard, that is, small-scale production enterprises. There is still a gap between the poor competitiveness and the overall performance of production equipment compared with foreign countries. On the one hand, domestic production enterprises generally have a small scale, a low technological level, weak independent innovation capacity, and a low level of management. The ability to directly participate in international market competition is not strong. On the other hand, the molding processing equipment manufacturing technology is still in a blank stage in the country. He explained that at present, due to the low degree of automation in equipment production, it is difficult to meet the requirements for the diversification of honeycomb paper products, so most of them still remain in the hand-made stage, and more manpower means higher costs. Wu Haiping also believes that the lack of suitable high-speed equipment that matches high production in China is the crux of the development of limiting the development of honeycomb paper packaging.
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