Color box packaging means folded cartons, colorful corrugated boxes made of plastic, cardboard, and fine corrugated cardboard. It is lightweight, portable, and can be made of various materials.
Currently, all over the world but especially in developed countries, the benefits of “color box packaging” have become more appreciated in many sectors and businesses, like food, alcohol, medicine, daily use/cosmetics, tobacco, and electronic products, to name a few.
The most rapid development of color box packaging has been seen in tobacco, food, medicine, daily chemical, and other areas closely related to people’s lives, and demand is still expanding. In the United States, 80% of packaging printers plan to switch to the production of color boxes, and in China, it is growing at a rapid rate of 18% per year. The higher profit of color box packaging and the vast consumption potential of color box printing has created a global need, and we have seen an increase in producers of different sized and standards. It’s been a rush to squeeze into the big domestic Chinese market.
The main driver of this development is the hard market competition, more and more enterprises realize the importance of packaging as part of the brand marketing and positioning. And color box packaging is quickly becoming more popular because of its easy processing and appealing printing effect. It has become the most popular choice of color box packaging for commodities. With the continuous progress of printing technology and color box manufacturing skills, we will see rapid development in the design, colors, and materials used for these products in the coming years. We believe that the color box printing industry will grow and be an essential industry for years to come.
With the rapid development of modern industry and consumption and the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, people’s demand for smart, green, and practical packaging will continue to increase. The quality of color box packaging will also help raise and advance the packaging industry. To avoid the scrap on the automatic folding and gluing machines and to make the folded carton automatically complete, the process of opening, forming, filling, and sealing on the high-speed packaging machine, it is not only requires that the structure of the carton is well designed but also to ensure that the color box has sufficient die-cutting precision and folding and gluing precision. The short version of live parts increase, improved processing quality, and reduced production cost is also the market pressure and problems faced by color box packaging enterprises. This requires the application of new technologies in the production process of color box packaging, continuously improving the degree of automation of equipment, reducing the adjustment time of equipment and the extra preparation time of live parts, only by constantly adapting to the new changes in the market and meeting the needs of different users.
Reprinted from Jiurun Packaging — “What is color box packaging?”