About 1,300 kinds of packaging machinery

There are about 1,300 varieties of food packaging machinery in China, lacking high-tech, high-precision, high-quality accessory products, low product performance, poor stability and reliability, short life, rough surface treatment, and unattractive appearance. From the perspective of business status, about 2,000 of the nearly 7,000 companies are not stable enough. Nearly 15% of the companies convert or close down each year. At the same time, about the same number of new companies enter the industry; The lack of leading companies, annual sales exceeds 100 million yuan. There are only a dozen companies in the yuan, and about 50 companies have annual sales of more than 30 million yuan. From the point of view of scientific research product development, it still basically remains in the test imitation stage, and its self-development ability is not strong, and scientific research investment is low. The funds only account for 1% of sales, while developed countries are as high as 8% to 10%.

Turn the way, the level is imminent

How to further enhance the overall strength of China's food packaging machinery industry so that it can participate in the international trend of competition, catch up with international standards, the industry believes there are three ways out:

First of all, cultivating and developing high-end equipment manufacturing and building a well-known brand in the industry is the only way to make the food packaging machinery bigger and stronger. “Our food and packaging machinery industry must take the development of high-end equipment manufacturing industry as a top priority, strengthen the research and development of core key technologies, break through the weak links in key product areas, and seize the commanding heights of future industrial development to maintain sustainable development and become bigger and stronger. Create necessary conditions," he said.

Second, improving the quality and efficiency of industrial development is an inherent requirement for changing the mode of economic development. At present, the export volume of food and packaging machinery in China is still very small. There was a deficit of US$1.35 billion last year, indicating that quite a few are still at the low end of industries relying on simple processing and efficiency gains from cheap labor, and the road to go is still very long. The total size of the food and packaging machinery industry seems to be OK. Last year, it reached 182.5 billion yuan, but the mode of economic growth was extensive, product profit levels were low, coupled with rising prices, relative energy shortages, and multiple environmental protection requirements, the original product The comparative advantages have gradually weakened, and the comparative disadvantages have become increasingly prominent.

“In the new round of industrial competition, the industrial safety and development prospects of the food and packaging machinery industry are not optimistic. Therefore, increase the efforts to adjust the structure, transfer methods, and the upper level, accelerate the improvement of product quality and efficiency, and pay attention to the development of product science and technology innovation. The road is imperative and imminent."

Third, strengthening industrial common technology research is a strong guarantee for improving the innovation capability of China's food and packaging machinery industry. According to Li Shujun, at present, the common technology research in China's food and packaging machinery industry lags behind and lacks effective systems and mechanisms, and lacks overall planning and policy protection. In recent years, in order to meet the needs of industrial development on common technologies, some industry associations, enterprises and institutions have called for and taken active measures to strengthen the research and development of common technologies. However, due to institutional mechanisms and commercial interests, the common technologies Research cannot be scaled, and it lacks systemicity and continuity, and the results achieved are very limited.