Traditional mobile phone packaging boxes use color printing cartons, and the usual structure of color printing cartons is: offset paper + hard paper card + blister or EVA, which is rarely useful for other materials. But in recent years, a new type of packaging material-environmentally friendly paper-plastic paper tray packaging has appeared in the mobile phone packaging industry. Its appearance is like a dazzling dark horse, attracting the attention of many mobile phone manufacturers. It is understood that some mobile phone manufacturers have or are considering using environmentally friendly paper-plastic paper trays as a substitute for traditional color-printed packaging boxes.
Environmentally-friendly paper-plastic paper tray, also known as paper tray, means pulp molding. Its production is to decompose raw materials into pulp through biodegradation, and then press the pulp into forming with a grinding tool. But in fact, the raw material for the production of mobile phone packaging boxes is not paper, but natural materials such as sugarcane pulp, bamboo pulp, and reed pulp.
Blister and EVA are difficult to degrade and pollute, so export is prohibited
After understanding environmentally friendly paper-plastic paper trays, let's take a look at blister and EVA. Blister and EVA, which are usually used as the inner support of product packaging, are chemical inorganic products, which are difficult to degrade naturally, and combustion will have a huge impact on the natural environment. Due to the continuous tightening of environmental protection policies by the Chinese government in recent years, some small factories that mainly produce blister or EVA have closed down one after another. In addition, because foreign laws, regulations and implementation standards on environmental protection are higher than those in China, these traditional mobile phone packaging materials with unenvironmental elements will also be prohibited from exporting or charge high environmental taxes in the import and export trade. In order to break this "embarrassing situation" in the packaging industry, some manufacturers have taken a different approach and chose to use environmentally friendly paper-plastic paper trays as a substitute for blister and EVA.
Compared with the "cancer" that plastics are difficult to degrade and degrade for a long time, and under the policy of the Chinese government to pay more and more attention to environmental protection, major paper tray manufacturers have taken a fancy to this business opportunity.
The price of base paper continues to rise, and the rise of environmentally friendly paper plastics is reborn
In the past few years, the raw paper manufacturers' business was flourishing. Because the source of raw paper raw materials is more convenient and the price is lower, it is mainly waste paper recycled at home and abroad. Through reprocessing, 30% of the cost can be saved. In addition, because its raw materials are environmentally friendly, the government will provide relevant subsidies and other policy support when these base paper products are exported to Europe, the United States and other regions. This has led to the rise of large and small base paper manufacturers across the country.
Things must be reversed. While these large and small base paper manufacturers are developing prosperously, their impact on the environment is increasing, attracting great attention from the government. With the continuous tightening of environmental protection policies, many base paper manufacturers have closed down or ordered rectification. , There has been a wave of price increases for base paper.
Data show that the average price of waste paper to the factory in September this year was 2,960 yuan/ton, compared to only 1,240 yuan/ton in the same period last year, an increase of 139%. In addition, in August this year, most paper mills across the country also raised prices three to four times. According to incomplete statistics, 114 paper mills increased their prices that month, covering 17 provinces, of which 58 paper mills increased their prices more than twice. , More than 6 times of price increases, including corrugated paper, white paper, tissue paper, newsprint, coated paper and other base paper, ranging from 300 yuan to 900 yuan per ton. In September, the national average price of corrugated paper exceeded RMB 5,200/ton, a year-on-year increase of over 100%, reaching a historical high.
According to analysis by industry insiders, there are two main reasons for the price increase of waste newspapers. “The first is the national ban on the import of waste paper, and the second is the government's treatment of environmental pollution in paper-making enterprises. The combined effect of these two factors has caused the price of waste recycling to rise.
The increase in paper prices in August and September can be described as crazy. Entering October, paper prices are still soaring.
Rising paper prices are catastrophic for packaging manufacturers. It not only causes a high cost increase, but also brings an embarrassing situation of hard-to-find paper and paperless production. When the price and supply of raw materials cannot be stabilized, where should companies engaged in the production of mobile phone packaging go?
Under such circumstances, environmentally friendly paper-plastic paper trays have once again entered the sight of mobile phone packaging companies and have been reborn. Why is it reborn again? In fact, environmentally friendly paper-plastic paper trays have appeared in people's lives many years ago, and the more common one is the bottom tray for holding fresh eggs. So, how can such a rough egg paper tray be connected with the exquisite mobile phone packaging box? The raw material used in the egg paper tray is also recycled waste paper, which obviously cannot be used as the production material of the mobile phone packaging box. Later, people discovered that sugarcane pulp, bamboo pulp, reed pulp and other materials have stable fibers, good toughness, short growth cycle, low price, and rapid growth and regeneration, and can be used as raw materials. Taking bamboo as an example, the cutting period of bamboo is generally about 3 years, and if the growth cycle of the tree is 30-50 years, which raw material is more green and environmentally friendly, it is obvious.
According to the current situation, due to the tightening of environmental protection policies and the rise of paper prices, domestic printing and packaging companies have appeared in an unusually distressed state-"no paper is available." In addition, foreign waste paper is prohibited from exporting to China, and China's environmental protection policy is intensified, making environmentally friendly paper-plastic paper tray packaging an inevitable trend in the future.
