Plastic packaging in the beverage industry has attractive business opportunities.

Plastic packaging in the beverage industry has attractive business opportunities. In 2002, the output of beverages reached 20.24 million tons, and the demand for plastic containers for soda, fruit juice, vegetables and beverages is increasing day by day. In today’s beverage market, pet plays a major role in the container application of tea, carbonated drinks, fruit juice and bottled water. Such as Watson’s “Huanbao” bottle, the slim Huiyuan “he + she -” plastic bottle, and the lovely Yanjing “Dongdong” conical bottle, pet makes the shape of beverage packaging diverse.

In the past two years, there have been more and more new packaging in China’s beverage market. At present, there are mainly several types of plastics used for beverage packaging:

1. PE (polyethylene):

PE is the world’s largest output of synthetic resin, but also the consumption of plastic packaging materials. Polyethylene products are divided into low density, medium density and high density. Among them, high density polyethylene (HDPE) is widely used to make hollow containers such as bottles because of its high crystallinity, good hardness, air tightness, mechanical strength and chemical resistance. Using the good heat sealing performance of PE, the containers made of various composite materials can contain lemon juice, fruit juice and other drinks.

2. PVC (polyvinyl chloride):

PVC can be roughly divided into hard products, soft products and paste products. The PVC bottle produced by injection, pulling and blowing method has no suture and uniform wall thickness. It can contain aerated drinks such as coke, soda, etc; PVC bottles produced by extrusion blow molding are only suitable for containing fruit juice and mineral water.

3. PP (polypropylene):

The development of polypropylene transparent packaging bottle is a hot spot of plastic packaging at home and abroad in recent years. With the successful development of transparent modifier nucleating agent, 0.1% ~ 0.4% sorbitol xylene (benzaldehyde) nucleating agent is added to ordinary pp. the produced high transparent PP bottle can be widely used in beverage packaging requiring thermal sterilization, such as concentrated fruit juice, which needs high-temperature filling. It has appropriate price, pressure resistance and temperature resistance. It is a new opponent of PS, ABS, pet and PE bottles.

4. Polyester (PET or PETP):

The PET bottle produced by biaxial extension blow molding has good transparency, high surface gloss and glassy appearance. It is a suitable plastic bottle instead of glass bottle. In recent years, the production of PET bottles in China has developed rapidly and is widely used in all kinds of tea drinks, fruit juices and other beverages that need hot filling, such as Pepsi Cola’s 600ml, 1.25l, 2L and 2.5L PET bottles. Different volumes are aimed at the different needs of individuals and families, which are well evaluated by the majority of consumers.

In terms of the market share of major beverage countries in the world, PET bottles account for more than 70%. The results of a survey show that by 2007, the market sales of plastics for food and beverage packaging in Europe will increase from US $4.91 billion in 2000 to US $7.15 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 5.5%. At present, China is also in the high-speed development stage of PET beverage packaging, and the demand for polyester bottles increases by double digits every year. The application proportion of PET bottle in domestic carbonated beverage packaging accounts for 57.4%. It can be seen that polyester bottle packaging has occupied the main share of domestic beverage packaging market. Consumers widely believe that PET bottles have the characteristics of “large capacity, transparency, strong intuition, light and easy to open, cold storage, convenient carrying, firmness and recyclability”, which provides a broad market prospect for their development.


Post time: Sep-03-2021