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Demand for packaging in food & beverage industry

Author: Kavitha Kathirvel
by Kavitha Kathirvel
Posted: Dec 11, 2017

Food & beverage packaging provides protection, tampering resistance and special chemical, physical and biological needs for F&B. Further, food packaging helps in maintaining food nutrition and rapid and reliable distribution of food among value chains.

The common types of packaging materials used in the food industry are rigid plastic packaging, leather packaging, paperboard packaging, wood packaging, textile packaging, metal packaging, beverage cans, aerosols and glass. These packaging industries are used in beverage industries. It is found in majority of beer packaging, carbonated soft drinks (CSD) packaging and energy drinks packaging.

Increase in number of companies in appalam industry has led to fierce competition and has forced companies to look beyond traditional methods of manufacturing. What started as a business to promote women empowerment has now become a beneficiary of automated machineries and therefore higher output in lesser time.

To keep up with this increased production, packaging too evolved. In the beginning, papad was sold loose or with minimal packaging as the production and distribution was local only. By 1980 there was a significant consumption of appalam and use of polypropylene (a type of plastic polymer) packaging came into effect as papad had to be transported to other places as well. The packaging unit still then was mostly manual. Recent times have forced the manufacturers to resort to automated packaging units due to fierce demand and competition.

Many times, it is observed that a single product may require more than one type of packaging. Food packaging is done with various technologies such as shrink wrapping, shrink sleeve wrapping, modified atmosphere packaging, and sealed tray food packaging, fin seal / flow wrap packaging, vertical form fill & seal bagging, folding carton packaging and corrugated case & tray packaging.

With the rising demand for ready-to-eat foods, there is an increased demand too. Also, increased demand from tea, bottled water and CSD market is driving the beverage market around the globe.

The growth rate of food and beverages packaging is highest in USA and Asia and is expected to grow further among regions with rising infrastructure and increased purchasing power of consumers in such regions.

The rise in demand is mainly seen due to consumer’s requirement for convenience, low prices of large family packs, rising health awareness among consumers, new food packaging material development, developing recycling infrastructure of packaging materials and brand enhancement. Manufacturers are investing in packaging machinery in full length.

This is just the beginning; the packaging machinery industry is expected to hit an unexpected boom in the years to come.

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Manufacturers, Suppliers & Exporters of Flow Wrap & Flow Packing Machines in India.

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