He Nanzhi: Poor quality and performance of food packaging machinery, urgent need for innovation
2024-06-22
Industry experts say that how to catch up with or even surpass the food packaging machinery of developed countries, how to increase the pace of independent innovation, and strive to develop a batch of products with independent intellectual property rights and international advanced level in a short period of time are urgent tasks facing China's food packaging machinery enterprises.
In the first seven months of this year, although the export growth of China's food packaging machinery industry exceeded the import growth, the trade deficit between imports and exports showed a widening trend. This indicates that our industry cannot keep up with the development needs of downstream industries in terms of new product development, or that there are some equipment that we do not lack in variety, but cannot meet the requirements of rapidly developing downstream enterprises in terms of quality and performance. For the Chinese food packaging machinery industry, without innovation, it will always lag behind others. "Recently, He Nanzhi, Executive Vice Chairman of the China Food and Packaging Machinery Industry Association, issued a warning to the industry.
The growth rate of the entire industry is slowing down
Food and beverage packaging is the largest segmented market in the packaging machinery industry. According to the industrial census data, there are currently nearly 6000 food packaging machinery enterprises in China, but most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises. According to statistics from the China Food and Packaging Machinery Industry Association, in July, 1247 enterprises achieved a total industrial output value of 46.96 billion yuan, of which the output value of new products was 27.91 billion yuan, an increase of 33.06% compared to the same period last year; The industrial sales output value was 45.4 billion yuan, an increase of 24.82% compared to the same period last year. However, the import and export trade deficit showed a widening trend. In the first half of this year, imports were 1.332 billion US dollars and exports were 738 million US dollars.
Since the second half of 2008, China's food packaging machinery industry has been affected by the international financial crisis. Although it has maintained a counter trend upward trend, the growth rate has slowed down and is significantly lower than in previous years. According to statistics from the China Machinery Industry Federation, in the first half of this year, the overall recovery trend of China's machinery industry continued since the fourth quarter of last year, with production and sales growth exceeding 35%, reaching a new high in recent years. But in the food packaging machinery industry, "although the industry's output value increased by more than 30% in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, this data may be a bit inflated," said He Nanzhi.
The statistical data from the China Machinery Industry Federation also illustrates this point. In terms of operational efficiency, the machinery industry achieved a year-on-year profit growth of 86.13% in the first half of this year, while the food packaging machinery industry had the lowest, with only over 25%.
This is a dangerous signal. It indicates that the speed of new product development is slowing down, or that the newly developed products are not suitable for the market. Even a few companies that did well in 2009 did not attach enough importance to new product development, resulting in insufficient momentum for enterprise development. Industry development cannot rely solely on the increase in sales of old products. Without technical support from new products, how can technological progress be reflected? We hope to raise high attention from industry enterprises. "On multiple occasions, He Nanzhi expressed such concerns.
The existence of gaps cannot be ignored
The packaging machinery industry in China started relatively late, and after more than 20 years of development, it has become one of the top ten industries in the machinery industry, providing effective guarantees for the rapid development of the packaging industry. Nowadays, China's packaging machinery industry and packaging production have entered a new era of adjusting product structure and improving development capabilities. Technological upgrading, product replacement, and improvement of management capabilities are important issues for the development of the packaging machinery industry.
Industry experts point out that compared with foreign countries, the current gap in the manufacturing level of packaging machinery in China is mainly reflected in technology. The technological strength of an enterprise itself is dependent on production, so conducting exploratory research faces limitations in both scientific research and laboratory equipment. A new technology cannot be directly applied to production without prior development by a research institute. The development of cutting-edge technologies requires investment in both knowledge and equipment. Enterprises are unwilling to invest, and research institutions lack the strength. Over time, this will widen the gap between China and the international advanced level. In order to adapt to the fierce competition in the market, the cycle of packaging product updates and replacements is becoming shorter and shorter. Weak technological innovation capability, slow progress in process technology, and the inability to fundamentally break away from imitation in new product development have made it difficult for enterprises to cope with changes in the situation and weak competitiveness.
Industry experts believe that the excessive dependence of Chinese packaging machinery on foreign high-end technology has become a serious hidden concern that restricts the development of China's packaging equipment industry. The domestic packaging equipment industry is still in the overall learning stage and lacks experience in flexible application. Therefore, it is inevitable for the domestic packaging equipment industry to take the path of independent innovation. The future development trend of the packaging machinery industry is smaller, more flexible, versatile, and efficient equipment. Chinese enterprises need to examine and solve problems from a new starting point, transform their development concepts, enhance their market awareness, further improve their processing technology and precision, and quickly catch up with the world's advanced level with more perfect appearance and stable manufacturing level.
At the same time, the low-level repetitive construction of packaging machinery has hindered the upgrading and innovation of industry products. He Nanzhi believes that about 30% of enterprises in China's packaging machinery industry have low-level redundant construction, which not only wastes limited funds, manpower and other important resources, but also causes disorder and chaos in the packaging machinery market, hinders the healthy development of the industry, and restricts the upgrading and innovation of packaging machinery and packaging technology for small and medium-sized food enterprises in China. But industry experts point out that to solve this problem, natural elimination can only be achieved through market regulation and strengthened supervision of its downstream industry - the food industry.
Continuous adjustment is the key to progress
Since September, China's machinery manufacturing industry has also entered the peak production season of "golden September and silver October", with many enterprises fully operating their production lines to meet the surging year-end orders. During the interview, the reporter found that some Chinese manufacturing companies that were once not recognized overseas have successfully "gone global" by taking advantage of the recent financial crisis, resulting in a rapid increase in overseas orders this year.
Due to the bias of European and American users towards Chinese packaging machinery products, Chinese food packaging machinery companies quickly forwarded their products to underdeveloped neighboring countries after exporting them to European and American countries such as the United States and Germany. Due to the global financial crisis, many European and American users have reduced costs and started trying Chinese products, providing a platform for Chinese companies to showcase their strength.
Industry experts point out that facing market demand and how to catch up with or even surpass developed countries' food packaging machinery, as well as how to increase the pace of independent innovation and strive to develop a batch of products with independent intellectual property rights and international advanced level in a short period of time, are urgent tasks facing China's food packaging machinery enterprises. There are very few domestic packaging machinery manufacturers that can conduct professional research and development, which is also our shortcoming. But with the continuous efforts of some domestic packaging machinery manufacturers, domestic packaging machinery has achieved good performance in measurement, manufacturing, technical performance, etc., especially in high-speed, complete, highly automated and reliable beer and beverage filling equipment. The emergence of mechatronics integration has led to a surge in demand for automated packaging equipment.
In the first seven months of this year, although the export growth of China's food packaging machinery industry exceeded the import growth, the trade deficit between imports and exports showed a widening trend. This indicates that our industry cannot keep up with the development needs of downstream industries in terms of new product development, or that there are some equipment that we do not lack in variety, but cannot meet the requirements of rapidly developing downstream enterprises in terms of quality and performance. For the Chinese food packaging machinery industry, without innovation, it will always lag behind others. "Recently, He Nanzhi, Executive Vice Chairman of the China Food and Packaging Machinery Industry Association, issued a warning to the industry.
The growth rate of the entire industry is slowing down
Food and beverage packaging is the largest segmented market in the packaging machinery industry. According to the industrial census data, there are currently nearly 6000 food packaging machinery enterprises in China, but most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises. According to statistics from the China Food and Packaging Machinery Industry Association, in July, 1247 enterprises achieved a total industrial output value of 46.96 billion yuan, of which the output value of new products was 27.91 billion yuan, an increase of 33.06% compared to the same period last year; The industrial sales output value was 45.4 billion yuan, an increase of 24.82% compared to the same period last year. However, the import and export trade deficit showed a widening trend. In the first half of this year, imports were 1.332 billion US dollars and exports were 738 million US dollars.
Since the second half of 2008, China's food packaging machinery industry has been affected by the international financial crisis. Although it has maintained a counter trend upward trend, the growth rate has slowed down and is significantly lower than in previous years. According to statistics from the China Machinery Industry Federation, in the first half of this year, the overall recovery trend of China's machinery industry continued since the fourth quarter of last year, with production and sales growth exceeding 35%, reaching a new high in recent years. But in the food packaging machinery industry, "although the industry's output value increased by more than 30% in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, this data may be a bit inflated," said He Nanzhi.
The statistical data from the China Machinery Industry Federation also illustrates this point. In terms of operational efficiency, the machinery industry achieved a year-on-year profit growth of 86.13% in the first half of this year, while the food packaging machinery industry had the lowest, with only over 25%.
This is a dangerous signal. It indicates that the speed of new product development is slowing down, or that the newly developed products are not suitable for the market. Even a few companies that did well in 2009 did not attach enough importance to new product development, resulting in insufficient momentum for enterprise development. Industry development cannot rely solely on the increase in sales of old products. Without technical support from new products, how can technological progress be reflected? We hope to raise high attention from industry enterprises. "On multiple occasions, He Nanzhi expressed such concerns.
The existence of gaps cannot be ignored
The packaging machinery industry in China started relatively late, and after more than 20 years of development, it has become one of the top ten industries in the machinery industry, providing effective guarantees for the rapid development of the packaging industry. Nowadays, China's packaging machinery industry and packaging production have entered a new era of adjusting product structure and improving development capabilities. Technological upgrading, product replacement, and improvement of management capabilities are important issues for the development of the packaging machinery industry.
Industry experts point out that compared with foreign countries, the current gap in the manufacturing level of packaging machinery in China is mainly reflected in technology. The technological strength of an enterprise itself is dependent on production, so conducting exploratory research faces limitations in both scientific research and laboratory equipment. A new technology cannot be directly applied to production without prior development by a research institute. The development of cutting-edge technologies requires investment in both knowledge and equipment. Enterprises are unwilling to invest, and research institutions lack the strength. Over time, this will widen the gap between China and the international advanced level. In order to adapt to the fierce competition in the market, the cycle of packaging product updates and replacements is becoming shorter and shorter. Weak technological innovation capability, slow progress in process technology, and the inability to fundamentally break away from imitation in new product development have made it difficult for enterprises to cope with changes in the situation and weak competitiveness.
Industry experts believe that the excessive dependence of Chinese packaging machinery on foreign high-end technology has become a serious hidden concern that restricts the development of China's packaging equipment industry. The domestic packaging equipment industry is still in the overall learning stage and lacks experience in flexible application. Therefore, it is inevitable for the domestic packaging equipment industry to take the path of independent innovation. The future development trend of the packaging machinery industry is smaller, more flexible, versatile, and efficient equipment. Chinese enterprises need to examine and solve problems from a new starting point, transform their development concepts, enhance their market awareness, further improve their processing technology and precision, and quickly catch up with the world's advanced level with more perfect appearance and stable manufacturing level.
At the same time, the low-level repetitive construction of packaging machinery has hindered the upgrading and innovation of industry products. He Nanzhi believes that about 30% of enterprises in China's packaging machinery industry have low-level redundant construction, which not only wastes limited funds, manpower and other important resources, but also causes disorder and chaos in the packaging machinery market, hinders the healthy development of the industry, and restricts the upgrading and innovation of packaging machinery and packaging technology for small and medium-sized food enterprises in China. But industry experts point out that to solve this problem, natural elimination can only be achieved through market regulation and strengthened supervision of its downstream industry - the food industry.
Continuous adjustment is the key to progress
Since September, China's machinery manufacturing industry has also entered the peak production season of "golden September and silver October", with many enterprises fully operating their production lines to meet the surging year-end orders. During the interview, the reporter found that some Chinese manufacturing companies that were once not recognized overseas have successfully "gone global" by taking advantage of the recent financial crisis, resulting in a rapid increase in overseas orders this year.
Due to the bias of European and American users towards Chinese packaging machinery products, Chinese food packaging machinery companies quickly forwarded their products to underdeveloped neighboring countries after exporting them to European and American countries such as the United States and Germany. Due to the global financial crisis, many European and American users have reduced costs and started trying Chinese products, providing a platform for Chinese companies to showcase their strength.
Industry experts point out that facing market demand and how to catch up with or even surpass developed countries' food packaging machinery, as well as how to increase the pace of independent innovation and strive to develop a batch of products with independent intellectual property rights and international advanced level in a short period of time, are urgent tasks facing China's food packaging machinery enterprises. There are very few domestic packaging machinery manufacturers that can conduct professional research and development, which is also our shortcoming. But with the continuous efforts of some domestic packaging machinery manufacturers, domestic packaging machinery has achieved good performance in measurement, manufacturing, technical performance, etc., especially in high-speed, complete, highly automated and reliable beer and beverage filling equipment. The emergence of mechatronics integration has led to a surge in demand for automated packaging equipment.