Current Status and Development Direction of Chinese Beer Dry Packaging Technology

I. Introduction


Statistics show that in recent years, China's beer production has continued to rank first in the world, showing a strong development trend. The development of the beer industry has provided a good development opportunity for the Chinese beer packaging machinery manufacturing industry.

Dry packaging is the completion stage in beer production, and is also an important part of the formation of products, which plays a decisive role in ensuring product quality, hygiene, safety and economic benefits. Therefore, further improving the technical level of China's beer dry packaging and promoting the development and progress of China's packaging industry are also of positive significance for promoting the development of China's beer industry.

Second, the status quo of Chinese beer heat shrinkable plastic film packaging

In China, bottled beer is basically in the form of plastic (or wood) turnover boxes, carton packaging, heat shrinkable plastic film packaging and strapping. Among them, due to the high manufacturing cost of the plastic turnover box, the dealers need to advance and refund the deposit and other issues, the output has not been able to go up; the appearance of the carton package is high-grade for storage and transportation, but the cost is higher, measured by a single carton of 3X4 bottle size, the price is 1.50 yuan to a few dollars. According to relevant reports, the cost of tying beer is still high in many breweries.

The National Standard for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued by the General Administration of the People's Republic of China GB49-27-2001 beer and GB/T4928-2001 beer analysis method was officially implemented on January 1, 2003. In the new standard, the packaging form of the bundled beer will no longer be allowed to be used by the brewery, and will be replaced by corrugated boxes, plastic containers and soft plastic packaging. For the equipment manufacturing industry serving the beer industry, this standard will play a positive role in guiding the industry to meet international standards.

The basic principle of heat shrinkable plastic film packaging is to arrange the bottle (can) beer on the paperboard, and wrap the bottled beer in groups by a heat shrinkable plastic film. The equipment consists of three parts: conveying, wrapping and heat shrinking. The conveyor is docked with the conveying system on the production line to arrange the bottles; the wrapping machine has the functions of dividing the bottle, sucking the cardboard, but feeding the film by tension; the heat shrinking machine uses hot air circulation to complete the one-time package forming of the beer.

Plastic film shrink packaging is compatible with the advantages of the above several types of sealing. The film has high transparency, does not damage the trademark, and has good displayability; it can be packaged into a combination of 3X3 or 3X4, and the price of the plastic film is about 0.40 yuan, and the packaging cost is low; there is a good market prospect.

At the same time, the heat shrinkable plastic film packaging products are easy to transport and have low packaging costs, and have been widely used in the beer and beverage industries.

Due to the above advantages of heat shrinkable plastic film packaging and related policies, many domestic breweries have introduced foreign or imported domestic automatic beer heat shrinkable plastic film packaging machines.

Domestic packaging machinery manufacturers have to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to develop and launch domestic heat shrinkable plastic film packaging machines. According to incomplete statistics, Guangdong Light Industry Machinery No.2 Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Huadu Light Industry Machinery Factory, Baoji Xinke Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Guangdong Light Industry Machinery Group Co., Ltd., Ningbo Fuda Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Ltd. and other companies. They can provide a variety of heat shrink film packaging machines for beer companies.

Such as production capacity: 30 packs / min -90 packs / min; packaging specifications: 3X3 bottles / bags or 3X4 bottles / bags; applicable bottle type: glass bottles, cans, plastic bottles; paper trays, paper trays can be used as needed Or just use plastic film packaging. China's packaging machinery manufacturing industry has provided strong support and guarantee for the development of plastic film packaging in the beer industry.

However, it should be noted that some breweries have some problems affecting the quality of beer packaging during the packaging machine using heat shrinkable plastic film, mainly in:


1. If the intermediate buffer (such as cardboard) is not added during the lifting or transportation, the lower bottle cap will be damaged, causing the beer to leak or burst the bottle;

2. When used in hot summer, the plastic film will be deformed after being heated. With the process of transportation or transportation, the vibration of the beer bottle will be lengthened, causing the plastic film packaging beer bottle to be unpacked;


3, in the cold winter use, the plastic film is often frozen at the touch, can not get the packaging effect, and the loss is serious;


4. Since the plastic film packaging is usually a one-time packaging, it brings a lot of inconvenience to the recycling of beer bottles. At the same time, the plastic film currently used in beer heat shrinkable plastic film packaging machine is mostly non-degradable (recycling). Under the circumstances of environmental protection awareness and environmental protection, the white pollution problem caused by plastic film packaging can not be ignored.

Third, the development of China's beer dry packaging technology is imperative

With the development of China's economy and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the demand for beer will continue to increase. The beer production in China has been increasing year by year, and the beer market has undergone tremendous changes. The taste has evolved from single to diversified, and the products have developed from low-end to mid-range and high-end, and the form of beer packaging has also become more diverse. Beer production enterprises are developing in terms of large-scale, group-oriented and modernization. The development of beer enterprises has put forward higher requirements for the large-scale and modernization of packaging machinery and equipment, to meet the market requirements with good quality, high grade and variety of beer. This is both an opportunity and a challenge in the Chinese beer packaging machinery manufacturing industry.

1. Introduce technology, digestion and absorption, and self-development to develop China's beer dry packaging technology.

In recent years, the beer heat shrinkable plastic film packaging machine developed and produced by China's beer packaging machinery manufacturer is based on the introduction of foreign advanced technology, combined with digestion and absorption and self-development, combined with China's national conditions, developed, launched and widely Applied products. Domestic beer dry packaging equipment, such as glass bottle unloading machine, camera loading, depalletizing machine, stacker, carton forming machine, sealing machine, etc. have also been promoted and applied in the beer industry.


At the same time, a number of key enterprises of packaging machinery have emerged: Nanjing Light Machine, Guangdong Light Machine, Guang Er Light, Hefei Zhongchen Light Machine, Chongqing Light Machine, Huadu Light Machine, etc. Although its products currently have a certain gap in terms of technological advancement, overall support, and appearance quality compared with similar foreign advanced equipment, there is still a large attraction in the face of fierce competition.

2. Adjust and optimize the organizational structure, achieve product diversification, and specialize in production.

The shape, type and packaging of containers for packaging beer are currently diverse. For example, there are 355ml, 500ml, 640ml, 946ml glass bottles, 2L plastic bottles, 355ml and 500ml cans, 10L, 20L, 30L and 50L metal drums; there are 2, 4 and 6 glass bottles or cans gift packaging.

As mentioned above, at present, China's bottled beer is basically in the form of plastic turnover box, carton packaging, plastic film packaging, etc.; its packaging form has its own characteristics. In order to meet market demand, packaging machinery manufacturers are required to adjust and optimize their organizational structure, diversify their products, and develop new technologies and products for dry packaging in a timely manner.


In order to improve product quality and grade, production specialization is guaranteed. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the organization and management of supporting purchased parts, such as: self-controlled electrical components, continuously variable transmissions, seals, pneumatic and hydraulic components to ensure the quality of the mainframe and the efficiency of the packaging line.


In addition, the bottles, caps, trademarks, plastic boxes, cartons, plastic films, etc. in the packaging materials have a direct impact on the performance of the equipment and the production efficiency of the whole line due to the unstable quality, which are waiting for the domestic packaging material manufacturers to improve the product quality. To meet the packaging line requirements for packaging materials. For example, the quality of plastic film packaging caused by plastic film materials used in heat shrinkable plastic film packaging machines should be highly valued.

3. Develop online inspection equipment, complete line computer management and control systems.

At present, online testing equipment such as: empty bottle inspection machine, liquid level inspection machine, label inspection machine, full box inspection machine and other domestic equipment have not yet been produced and applied. Most of them only stay in the development stage, and these detection equipments are high-speed and high-efficiency beer. The equipment that must be equipped for the packaging line. Foreign applications such as electronic imaging, infrared absorption, gamma ray, X-ray, high-frequency detection and other modern and practical technologies have been developed and applied including empty bottle cleaning, bottle bottom, residual liquid, bottle body, bottle mouth, bottle shape, bottle color As well as various online automatic inspection machines such as solid bottle level, lack of cover, lack of standard, leaking gas, full box, etc., the non-conforming products are automatically removed when running continuously on various packaging lines. These devices are also an integral part of modern dry beer packaging systems.

The whole line control system that echoes the high efficiency of production is also an important part of ensuring high-speed and efficient operation of the packaging line. With the continuous expansion of the production capacity of the packaging line, higher requirements are placed on the coordination and control of the system.


The foreign high-speed packaging line has benefited from the computer automatic control system combined with single-machine automatic control and interlocking network automatic control or regional network control CAN, which can not only automatically coordinate the speed of each conveyor belt of the packaging line, but also control other hosts to run synchronously with the filling machine. . It is gratifying that Nanjing Light Machine and Shanghai “Suntory” Brewery have successfully developed the “Online Monitoring and Optimization Adaptive Control System for Packaging Line Computer” and it has been applied in practice.

Therefore, it is hoped that domestic research institutes and equipment manufacturers will increase their research and development efforts, and at the same time produce products with higher technical level, more complete functions and fewer operators to meet the online detection of high-speed and high-efficiency beer packaging lines.



4. Improve the equipment engineering supporting system, attach importance to and strengthen the pre-sales and after-sales service of products.

At present, the domestic packaging machinery industry is not equipped with a high degree of equipment. Many enterprises have not formed their own systematic professional guidance, technical transformation, and engineering integration service system. The unit equipment and the overall supporting research and development strength and R&D structure cannot meet the needs of the development of the beer industry and the requirements of the market.

At the same time, packaging machinery manufacturers should also pay attention to and strengthen the pre-sales and after-sales service of products, keep close contact with users (brewery), provide timely information on the latest technical equipment, understand the information on the use of equipment, and do a good job in personnel training and spare parts. Information communication. When users encounter difficult problems, they should provide timely service and assistance.

5. Striving for a number of domestic dry packaging machinery product brands to participate in market competition.

The labeling machine produced by KRONES in Germany and the dry packaging equipment produced by KETTNER are the famous brands of beer and beverage packaging machinery in the world. We hope that domestic packaging machinery manufacturers will give full play to their respective advantages, produce their own fist products, create domestic packaging machinery brands, participate in market competition, and provide more and better dry packaging equipment for the beer industry.

6. Train a batch of packaging machinery development design and technical personnel

The competition between modern enterprises and commodities is essentially the competition of talents. To participate in fierce market competition, it is necessary to train and create a batch of packaging machinery development design and technical talents. For example, the selection of a group of ideological foundations is good, and the professional and technical personnel who have cultivated the future go to Germany to study and learn in the leading countries of packaging machinery technology, making it the backbone of future product design and development. At the same time, strengthen the training of professional and technical personnel at all levels and skilled workers to rationalize the talent structure.

In order to give full play to the advantages of professional colleges, research institutes and design institutes in scientific research, at the same time, digest and absorb large beer packaging lines and other advanced packaging machinery that have been introduced by some domestic breweries, it is recommended that industry authorities and associations organize and coordinate Technical exchanges, cooperation and scientific research between packaging machinery manufacturers, professional colleges, research institutes, design institutes and breweries are also effective ways to promote technological progress in the packaging machinery industry.

Fourth, the conclusion

The further development of China's beer industry has brought new opportunities to China's beer packaging machinery manufacturing industry, but also faces new challenges. Seize the opportunity, combine the reality, take the road of combining technology, digestion and absorption and independent development, accelerate the development of China's beer dry packaging technology, and make it find its place in the fierce market competition.

1. Introduce technology, digestion and absorption, and self-development to develop China's beer dry packaging technology;

2. Adjust and optimize the organizational structure to achieve product diversification and production specialization;

3. Develop online testing equipment, complete line computer management and control systems;

4. Improve the equipment engineering supporting system, attach importance to and strengthen the pre-sales and after-sales service of products;

5, striving for a number of domestic packaging machinery product brands;

6. Train a batch of packaging machinery development design and technical personnel.

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