Environmentally friendly and recyclable carton packaging accounts for more than 90% of the packaging of home appliances in my country. However, most of the cushioning materials in the packaging of home appliances currently sold in my country are EPS foam plastics, which are not environmentally friendly packaging materials.
In recent years, the Packaging Office of the Ministry of Information Industry and the Electronics Branch of the China Packaging Federation have been actively organizing enterprises and institutions such as Helisheng Company to discuss, promote and guide the application and development of honeycomb paperboard, which has made new breakthroughs. The honeycomb paper pallet developed in 1998 has been welcomed and applied by the majority of exporters, solving the problem of limited export of wooden packaging materials to the United States and the European Union. At present, the honeycomb paper pallet is expanding its market share and becoming the main substitute for wooden pallets; the honeycomb paperboard air conditioning packaging solution developed in 2000 has been favored by domestic home appliance giants such as Haier, Gree, Midea, Ke'e, Long, and Changhong, and has basically replaced the traditional EPS foam or wooden frame packaging solution; subsequently, Changhong rear-projection TVs, LCD TVs, Haier freezers, Midea dishwashers and other home appliances have successively applied honeycomb paperboard packaging, and the development and application of honeycomb paperboard packaging materials by Shanghai Printing Factory is forming a prairie fire. Therefore, honeycomb paperboard as a new type of packaging material has good development and application prospects.
As the packaging of home appliances tends to be green and environmentally friendly, some well-known home appliance manufacturers in my country have taken the lead in eliminating EPS foam plastic pads in export packaging and promoting the use of honeycomb paperboard pads. Since last year, my country has proposed a low-carbon and environmentally friendly economic development policy, prompting these home appliance manufacturers to eliminate EPS foam plastic pads in the packaging of domestic washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners and other home appliances and promote the use of honeycomb paperboard pads. Last year, Haier Group used 10 million sets of green and environmentally friendly honeycomb paper pads in washing machines and 3.6 million sets in refrigerator packaging, accounting for 30% of the total number.
At present, my country has not formulated corresponding incentive policies for low-carbon, environmentally friendly and energy-saving packaging innovation technologies, which may affect the development of low-carbon and environmentally friendly packaging.
