Status of metal packaging industry:

In 2006, the metal packaging industry in China showed five new situations and four problems.

First, metal packaging has achieved unprecedented prosperity and development, and the production and sales of all major products have reached a record high. The economic benefits have increased significantly, basically reversing the passive situation that the economic benefit of the national industry has been continuously declining since 2002 and even facing the loss of the whole industry. Take, for example, the production of major products. (the following data is for reference only)

Other kinds of metal packaging products have a large increase.

Second, the competitiveness of enterprises is more rational. Most companies have to product quality, technology and service enterprise comprehensive strength as a means of competition, preliminary restrain disorderly and suicide below cost and low price to fierce competition situation, so that the whole industry into the healthy, sustained, steady and healthy development track.

Three is a metal packaging involved in all kinds of major raw materials prices stable, and the trend of decline, and the supply and demand two prosperous, eliminates the main raw material price rising in recent years, insufficient supply of helpless situation, for the metal packaging industry development has laid a good foundation. In cold rolled sheet, tin plating (chrome plated) plate, for example, only 2006 years, was established in hebei, shandong, jiangsu new dozens of taking shape of cold rolled sheet and tin tailoring companies, the business is thriving. Here, I'm not saying that encourage more small iron and steel enterprises, it is unfavorable to intensive production and conflicts in the country's long-term development strategy, but you can see from metal packaging development speed is significantly higher than that for the development of cold rolled sheet, also can be seen that although China is the world's steel production country, but the structural contradiction of fine development relative lag products.

Fourthly, many enterprises in the industry, while gaining rapid development, have begun to pay more attention to the development of inner culture-oriented development, attach more importance to technology and technological innovation, and pay more attention to the development of products. Have a certain scale enterprises are successively set up "technology center", "r&d center" and so on, in order to improve the research level of the enterprise, improve the technological content of products, enhance enterprise technical strength, solid foundation, facing the future, make the good situation of enterprise to obtain long-term development.

Fifth, the enterprise group of the industry has formed or is forming and the rapid development of the welcome situation. The strong is stronger, weak and strong, which is the only way for enterprises to develop. The nation's largest private enterprises the ruijin can short 10 years for the development of large enterprise groups, with their strong comprehensive strength and advantages of resources, through the economic operation, just a few short years time has successfully set up several branches and offices throughout the country, make enterprises develop rapidly, at the same time also focus on the overseas market, and further focused on in the outside, to seek greater development. State-owned enterprises on behalf of cofco packaging with its powerful technical strength and capital strength, through restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and other forms, the group is able to grow, its high fidelity, wide color gamut, high-definition printing products has been at the leading domestic level, varieties, specifications and diverse can product market share in the market has been very high, and maintain a strong momentum of development, has become among the metal packaging enterprise of the world. Industry there are a number of medium-sized enterprise group, mainly by the characteristics of enterprise products, features, and relatively fixed user base for the characteristics of enterprise group, has preliminary break the geographical boundaries, with its products as the breakthrough point, to dominate the product market, become the backbone of the metal packaging industry. I hope that the enterprise groups in our industry should not only be big, but also be strong, and should do better.

Nevertheless, metal packaging industry still exist some problems, in 2006 I in Beijing, hebei, jiangsu, zhejiang, guangdong and other places nearly more than 50 different economic characteristics, product structure and different scale enterprise to carry on the investigation, except when it comes to appear in front of the new situation, some problems to be solved, and some even ills, should cause enough attention of departments concerned, there are mainly four aspects.

On the first hand: the whole industry is small, scattered, disorderly situation has not been fundamentally strangled, nearly a year has rebounded.

After the preliminary understanding and estimation, the country engaged in metal packaging large, medium and small enterprises has about 3000, including taking shape of about 1500, according to the requirements of the state statistical standards about 550 have a certain scale enterprises. Due to the low barriers to entry in this industry, and the reasons of interest drivers and local protection, there are also the phenomenon of rising horses. In areas with less developed resources, such as more than 50 homes and small metal packaging plants in one province. Therefore, it can be seen that low levels of repetitive construction and overproduction of low-end products aggravate the consumption of resources and environmental pollution. Therefore, it is necessary for government departments and industry authorities to take seriously the barriers to the entry of metal packaging products. At the same time, as the metal packaging professional committee to promote industry resources integration, the restructuring of the joint between enterprises, upgrading of products, make the enterprise modernization into scale, and the track of benign development is a long way to go.

The second aspect: the standard of metal packaging products should be improved comprehensively.

In the past two years, the relevant departments have organized some enterprises and units to make revision work on the standard of product related to metal packaging. This undoubtedly plays an important role in promoting the quality and technical level of metal packaging products.

A few comments on the standardization of metal packaging products.

The first point is the formulation of standards, the revision of the work to achieve unified planning, unified organization, unified publicity.

The second is to raise standards. The metal packaging industry should adopt international advanced standards to promote the overall level of metal packaging products in China. Enterprise with considerable scale can be put into proper manpower and material resources, through various channels to obtain all kinds of metal packaging industry related national standards and counterparts in the developed countries of the enterprise standard, etc., to study the reference to learn me, use, also can make us metal packaging industry products are fully in line with international standards. In this regard, as an industry association, it is the responsibility to lay a solid foundation for the development of China's packaging power.

The third point is that the current standard of metal packaging products is insufficient to cover all metal packaging products. Miscellaneous cans products, for example, because of its variety, again not finalize the design, it is difficult to formulate industry standards, so enterprises should formulate a set of strict in industry standards and national standards of enterprise standards, constantly raise the level of the standardization of metal packaging products.

Third, if the metal packaging as an industry, the establishment of a technical center or r&d center, even the establishment of research and development base, production and research center is very necessary.

The current situation is that only a few backbone enterprises have established r&d centers, which is not enough for the overall development of the industry. Should give full play to the countries and regions, the advantage of colleges and universities, research institutes, to carry out the metal packaging basic research, frontier research, from packaging product research and development to packaging materials, packaging machinery and equipment research and development are very necessary. This regard, we the gap with the developed countries also is very big, the problem such as long-term is not solved, in the field of metal packaging, we will always be a foreigner by the nose, forever with purchased in somebody else's ass, it always in a passive position, will never stand in the forefront of the world metal packaging!

The fourth aspect: strengthen the recycling and recycling of metal packaging waste, and promote the development of green packaging production and recycling economy.

Generally speaking, the recovery rate of metal packaging waste should be the highest in a variety of packaging wastes; The lowest is about 40%, the highest is over 95%. Even so, it's not really recycling. First, there is not a set of practical laws, regulations and measures; The second is that there has not been a functioning system network, and most of them are scattered and recycled. Three metal packaging waste is recycled cannot do everything, but far less than its real value, such as: aluminum cans recycled aluminum melt as a general raw materials to use, very pity. So there's a lot of work to be done as a professional committee in the packaging industry; Four is some metal packaging waste because of the large amount of a single value is too low, and scattered, and recycling are ignored, such as: crown cap (commonly known as beer bottle cap), unscrew the cap, aluminum cap, etc.

The future of metal packaging.

With 16 sub-generalizations: adjust the structure, stabilize the growth, continue to develop, the future is bright.

From the following aspects.

Look from the technology and equipment: a lot of metal packaging enterprise through the technical innovation of recent years, technology transfer, joint venture cooperation, technology and equipment, product technical level, production capacity, specifications varieties had obvious progress and improve, have been close to or reached the international level, can provide the market with high quality, complete specifications and varieties of metal packaging products.

From the market demand: the major demand for metal packaging products is wine, beverage, canned food, daily chemical, petrochemical, chemical industry and other industries. The beer production in China has been the first in the world, other such as fruit juice, fruit drinks, carbonated drinks, soft drinks, canned food growth from 15% to 15% a year, a variety of cosmetic products, petrochemical products, production has greatly promoted, for metal packaging products has provided a broad space for development.

Look from the main raw material market, according to the China iron and steel association statistics tin (including chrome plate) in 2006, apparent consumption reached 2006 tons, a record high levels, and the localization rate has accounted for about 93.5%, some steel companies are adjusting product structure, enlarge the manufacture capacity and tin plating, chrome plating, galvanized sheet, can make the basic balance between supply and demand. Aluminium in two cans of aluminum can be produced domestically, and it is expected to reach 60,000 tons in 2007, breaking the total dependence on imports.

From the economic development situation, the domestic nearly a decade economy continues to double digits, continuously improve people's living standard, especially the contemporary young people the change of consumption idea, metal packaging of beverages, food, cosmetics is very popular with them. According to the relevant department, our beverage output was 41 million tons in 2006, making it the second largest beverage producer in the world after the United States. The deepening development of petroleum chemical products, fine chemicals and daily chemical products in China has expanded domestic demand and increased exports, providing a huge potential market for metal packaging. Of course, we will not let go of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games this important opportunity.

In the face of the metal packaging industry in the future, we are full of confidence, as long as the industry colleagues adhere to the scientific concept of development, adjusting industrial structure, improve the pressure capacity for independent innovation and competitiveness, change the traditional mode of economic growth, strengthen the service consciousness and service quality, metal packaging industry in China is bound to be built into a technology-based, service-oriented, modern industry, you will achieve greater development and prosperity.