Packaging industry racing technology

The requirements of customers are increasingly strict, requiring packaging not only convenient, thin, light, but also safe and friendly with the environment. Therefore, in today's packaging industry, businesses that want to survive must have resources and be subject to innovation and application of high technology.

According to businesses in the food and beverage industry, product packaging is the decisive factor for buyers to choose products. Therefore, after the M & A deals took place quite excitingly recently with a series of new names such as SSG, Oji Holding Corporation, Sagasiki Vietnam, RISA Partners ..., it is now the stage of production technology race.

"In this race, slow businesses will lose opportunities and advantages", Tetra Pak affirms, and admits that he has lost the opportunity when for many years, he only focused on dairy and fruit packaging while There are also a lot of products from other industries that have great demand for packaging.

Specifically, the plastic packaging sector is very potential and accounts for the largest proportion, about 37% in the plastic industry, in addition, the food industry in Vietnam is also forecast to continue to grow over 10%, in Meanwhile, bottled soft drinks and herbal water will have an average growth rate of over 24% / year.

Therefore, Tetra Pak's strategy is to invest in high-tech machinery to produce packaging for the fast food industry such as soup containers, corn, tomatoes, instant noodles ... that can be put in the oven. microwave.

Together with the perception that the packaging market is following a diversified and increasingly rigorous trend, customers are not only interested in health issues but also want to know where the product comes from, and how the production technology is. Does it affect the environment or not, Mr. Dang Ngoc Hung - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Liksin Packaging Industry Corporation affirmed: “If only focusing on simple and normal products as long as it has been, then It is difficult for domestic enterprises to compete, but must have a specific customer-oriented strategy, from which to plan appropriate investment. Due to choosing the customer segment which is large and multinational companies, last year Liksin focused on investing in technology and management system, in which the most breakthrough was investment in blowers to create 9 layers of responsive packaging. meeting the needs of preserving high quality food and pharmaceutical products ”.

Although new to Vietnam, but grasping the cement manufacturing industry that focuses on sustainable development and prioritizes packing to minimize cement dust, by the end of 2016, BillerudKorsnäs Company (has a packaging factory in the UK and Finland) has a plan to invest in an industrial packaging factory in Vietnam, in the immediate future is packing paper for cement packaging.

Mr. Robert Graves announced that in 2017, Tetra Pak will build the first liquid food packaging paper factory in Binh Duong province with an investment of about 100 million euros, a total capacity of 20 billion boxes. packages each year and will be operational in early 2019.

With nearly 20 years of operation and not losing its advantage, in 2016, New Toyo renovated machinery and equipment to improve productivity and product quality while reducing errors and improving product accuracy. and self vacuuming for the conveyor, fault warning. The company is also preparing to invest in a new GMP factory.

Taking advantage of the first time the Euro exchange rate is equal to the dollar for the first time, Tin Thanh Plastic Packaging Joint Stock Company (Batico) plans to import injection molding machines and film blowing extruders from Germany and France to improve competitiveness. competition and cost savings. Similarly, An Phat Plastic and Green Environment JSC also upgraded technology and put into operation a new factory to diversify food packaging with the aim of maintaining the profitability and attractiveness of the stock. promissory note.