Under the green economy, glass packaging products such as glass bottles may have new opportunities
At present, "white pollution" has increasingly become a social problem of universal concern around the world. It can be seen from the increasingly high pressure of environmental protection in China. Under the severe challenge of air pollution, the country focuses on the green economy from the perspective of development. Enterprises also pay more attention to the development and promotion of green products. Market demand and social responsibility have jointly spawned a batch of enterprises that pursue green production mode.
Glass adapts to the market and green requirements of glass packaging. With the advantages of environmental protection, good sealing, high temperature resistance, easy disinfection and other advantages, it is called a new packaging material, occupying a certain share in the market. On the other hand, with the enhancement of environmental protection awareness and resource conservation awareness of social residents, glass packaging containers have gradually become government encouraged packaging materials, and consumers' recognition of glass packaging containers has also been increasing.
The so-called glass packaging container, as the name implies, is a transparent container made of melted glass materials by blowing and molding. Compared with the traditional packaging materials, it has many advantages, such as less changes in material properties, good corrosion resistance and acid resistance, good barrier and sealing effect, and can be recycled. Therefore, it is widely used in beverage, medicine and other fields. In recent years, although the demand for glass packaging containers in the international market is on the decline, the glass packaging containers still have a strong growth momentum in the packaging and storage of various drinks, food seasonings, chemical reagents and other daily necessities.
At the national level, with the continuous promotion of "supply side structural reform" and "environmental protection renovation battle" and the increasingly strict industry access, China has issued the access policy for the daily glass industry, standardized the production, operation and investment behavior of the daily glass industry, promoted the clean production of energy conservation and emission reduction, and guided the daily glass industry to develop into a resource-saving and environment-friendly industry.
At the market level, in order to adapt to the fierce competition in the international packaging market, some foreign manufacturers and scientific research departments of glass packaging containers continue to introduce new equipment and adopt new technologies, which has made a lot of progress in the manufacture of glass packaging containers. The overall output of glass packaging containers keeps increasing continuously. According to the statistics of foresight, with the growth of various alcohol consumption, the production is expected to rise to 1970.34 million tons in 2018.
Objectively speaking, the overall scale of glass packaging container manufacturing industry continues to grow, and the capacity level of glass packaging containers in China has been rapidly improved. It should be noted that glass packaging containers also have some disadvantages, and easy to be damaged is one of them. Therefore, the impact resistance index of glass containers has become an important test item. The purpose of reducing the weight volume ratio of glass bottle is to improve its green and economy. At the same time, we also need to pay attention to the lightweight of glass packaging.
With the chemical stability, air tightness, bright and clean transparency, high temperature resistance, easy disinfection and a series of physical and chemical properties of glass packaging, the glass bottle packaging quickly occupies part of the market. In the future, glass packaging containers will have a broader development prospect.
