The tableware products and industrial packaging products produced by pulp molding technology are truly environmentally friendly products. They use natural plant fibers or waste paper as raw materials, and there is no pollution in the production and use processes. In addition to its positive role in replacing disposable plastic tableware, molded pulp products are also widely used in industrial products to become the packaging of electronic products. Molded pulp products are gradually entering the mainstream of commercial activities. The best alternative, the pulp molded product industry is booming.
According to incomplete statistics, the domestic market needs about 50 billion pieces of environmentally friendly food packaging products each year. Among them, the total annual demand for fast food utensils is about 20 billion pieces, and the total demand for various instant noodle factories exceeds 20 billion pieces. The total annual demand for clean dishes, food trays and various beverage cups is about 10 billion pieces.
Domestic large and medium-sized cities (such as Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Wuhan, Chengdu, etc.) need about 20 billion pieces of environmentally friendly pulp fast food boxes and bowls each year. In addition, from now on to replace all foamed plastic drinking utensils with paper pulp environmentally friendly instant noodle bowls, the annual demand is 20 billion pieces, including: "Master Kong" needs more than 1.5 billion environmentally friendly pulp barrel bowls in production plants across the country. "The production plants nationwide need more than 1.2 billion environmentally friendly pulp barrels and bowls each year. Other medium-sized convenience food factories (such as Japan’s Nissin, Guizhou’s Superstar, Guangxi’s "Black Five", Sichuan’s Mianyang "Guangyou", and Shandong’s "Longfeng", "Huafeng", "Nongxin" in Shanghai, "Longdi" in Shenyang, "Zhongcui" in Wuxi, etc.) According to the existing production capacity, a total of 9 billion pieces of environmentally friendly pulp packaging bowls are needed each year, and there are 380 small convenience stores nationwide. Food factories need about 8 billion pieces of environmentally friendly pulp packaging bowls each year.
Pulp environmentally friendly tableware not only has broad market prospects in our country, it has been used as the main means of controlling "white pollution" in western developed countries as early as the early 1990s. At present, the United States has announced that 8,500 restaurants will stop using PSP material lunch boxes, consuming about 10 billion pieces each year; 67.39 million people buy trays of various specifications for lunch every day, and the annual consumption is about 50 billion pieces. The total amount of clean vegetable trays in the US fast food industry and supermarkets can reach 100 billion pieces per year, while its domestic production capacity is only 20%, and the remaining 80% need to be imported from abroad. Five states in the United States have issued a governor's announcement to completely phase out and ban the use of plastic food packaging catering utensils in 2010, and replace them with food packaging, supermarket fresh trays and catering utensils made with environmentally friendly natural "paper pulp" raw materials. This replacement process can directly create market sales of environmentally friendly food packaging products of approximately US$25 billion.
The annual consumption of Japanese fast food industry and supermarket clean vegetable trays can reach 60 billion pieces, while its domestic production capacity is only 40%, and the remaining 60% needs to be imported. South Korea, Taiwan and developed countries in Western Europe use more than tens of billions of pieces each year. Southeast Asia is also an ideal international market for product exports in the future. The EU countries passed a proposal in June 2006 to withdraw all plastic food packaging from the food packaging catering market by 2010, and replace it with natural non-toxic and harmless "pulp" environmentally friendly food packaging products. This substitution process can directly create environmental protection. The food packaging products market has sales of approximately 30 billion euros. East and West Asian markets such as Japan and South Korea are gradually being replaced. By 2010, this replacement process can directly create market sales of environmentally friendly food packaging products of approximately US$18 billion.
