Current situation and future of the hottest metal

The current situation and future of China's metal packaging industry

1 industry development overview

after 23 years of reform and opening up, metal packaging has formed a complete metal packaging industry system including iron printing cans, sealed cans, steel drums, bottle caps, and aerosol cans, and has become one of the important categories of China's packaging industry. Its main products can be divided into: iron printing products (cans, boxes), cans (including aluminum two-piece cans, steel two-piece cans, tinplate three piece cans), aerosol cans (tinplate made of exquisite pharmaceutical cans, pesticide cans, cosmetic cans, industrial and household care cans) Food cans (all kinds of cans containing liquid and solid beverages, candy, milk powder, tobacco and alcohol food cans, etc.) and all kinds of bottle caps (horse mouth crown cap, unscrew cap, aluminum anti-theft cap, finger pressure safety cap). There are also 1 ~ 18L chemical barrels made of sheet metal and 20 ~ 200L steel barrels made of cold rolled sheet and zinc sheet. Metal packaging has a rich product line and a wide range of applications

metal packaging is an important part of China's urban industry. It has become an irreplaceable traditional packaging method because of its unique reinforcement, sealing and preservation, and metal decoration charm. Its output value accounts for about 10% of the total output value of China's packaging industry, mainly providing supporting services for food, canned goods, beverages, fats, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, export gift packaging and other industries

after the establishment of China Packaging Technology Association in 1980, the metal packaging container committee was established, and a series of work such as industrial information exchange and technical training were carried out, which effectively promoted the development of the metal packaging industry. By the early 1990s, the metal packaging industry had entered a high-speed development with the reform and opening up. During this period, there were more than 700 metal packaging enterprises in the country. Packaging enterprises in the United States, Japan, South Korea, as well as foreign-invested enterprises in Taiwan and Hong Kong have entered the field of metal packaging. In 1998, the number of registered enterprises soared to 1280. According to incomplete statistics, the total output of metal packaging in China reached 1.7 million tons in 2000, with a total output value of 17.6 billion yuan. In 2002, the total output was 2.19 million tons (including steel barrels), and the total industrial output value was 19.7 billion yuan. The rapid development in the 1990s also brought blind investment and repeated construction. In the past three years, due to the macro imbalance, low-level repeated investment and introduction, the general popular products of metal packaging have serious overcapacity, the fight for low prices has intensified, and the industry profits have shrunk. Shanghai jiaduobao, Guangzhou Meite and Tianjin Meite have been closed successively, and the three piece cans of American Bohr group have withdrawn from the Chinese market, and the industry development once entered a downturn. Since last year, metal packaging has recovered again, and a number of strong leading enterprises with an annual production and sales scale of more than 100 million yuan, or even more than 500 million yuan, have begun to gradually embark on the path of healthy development

2 market scale and structure

2.1 the total amount and scale of China's metal packaging market. After a temporary decline in the middle and late 1990s, the overall market size has achieved stable growth. The entire market capacity has increased with the growth of the national economy, the improvement of living standards, and the increasingly mature development of metal packaging technology

2.2 the main variety structure and regional distribution of metal packaging in China

1) the main variety structure of metal packaging - mainly three piece cans

in China's metal packaging production, it mainly includes iron printing products (batteries, rice cookers and other printing products), sealed cans (three piece cans for food), cans (two piece aluminum cans, two piece tinplate cans, three piece tinplate cans), bottle caps, can caps Aerosol tank and steel barrel (1 ~ 18 L small barrel and L large barrel). The output distribution of each product at the end of the ninth five year plan is shown in the following table:

2) user structure - mainly food and beverage and chemical industry

the top three users in China's metal packaging industry are food, beverage and chemical industry. The consumption structure of metal packaging in 2000 is shown in the following table:

3) regional structure - mainly distributed in the southeast and coastal areas, with South China as the largest total. The regional distribution of metal packaging enterprises is mainly (more than 70%) in South China, North China and the eastern coastal areas, and most of the advantageous famous brand enterprises are distributed in Tianjin, Beijing, Tangbo Bay Delta, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai Yangtze River Delta, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and the Pearl River Delta. In addition, Chongqing, Fujian and Shandong in Sichuan rely on the traditional advantages of deep processing of agricultural and sideline products to drive metal packaging, which has also become a key area of tinplate metal packaging, giving birth to a number of representative enterprises. For example, China iron printing packaging container development and production base (Hangzhou COFCO Meite container Co., Ltd., Wuxi huapengjia Duobao bottle cap company, Guangzhou Panyu Meite Packaging Co., Ltd.), Fujian Jiamei hardware products factory, Shanghai Ziquan, Beijing org Xinmei can making company, Shenzhen Huate, etc. This regional layout structure is mainly affected by many factors, such as the radiation radius of metal packaging, the distribution and natural aggregation of user clusters, etc. In terms of development speed, the eastern and southern regions have developed significantly faster than the central and western regions

South China and East China have the largest market capacity, standardized operation, good supply supporting resources and convenient channels, mature business environment and good market conditions

4) scale structure of enterprises - mainly small and medium-sized enterprises, and relatively scattered

in the scale of the metal packaging market, the total output value of the metal packaging industry in 2002 was 19.7 billion yuan, with an output of 2.19 million tons, a total of more than 1400 enterprises, and a pattern of three pillars of state-owned, foreign-funded and private enterprises. Among them, there are about 60 large and medium-sized enterprises with an output value of billion yuan, accounting for only 4%. Enterprises with an annual output of more than 50000 tons are relatively rare, such as Hangzhou COFCO Meite container Co., Ltd; There are nearly 40 enterprises with 10000 to 50000 tons (see the figure below for the scale distribution). In general, SMEs account for more than 90% of the industry. Based on the total volume of 1.7 million tons in 2000, the average annual consumption of each household is only 1214 tons/household. The task of industrial intensive integration is very arduous

nearly 40 enterprises nationwide consume 600000 tons of tinplate annually, accounting for 1/3 of the annual tinplate consumption of the whole industry

$page break $2.3 metal packaging enterprises are mainly distributed in the market and related industries

1) iron printing market

according to incomplete statistics, there were nearly 1000 iron printing production lines including domestic equipment in China in 2000, including more than 300 imported iron printing production lines, including 160 in Britain. Japan has 60 rich soils, while Germany and Taiwan have a small amount. The annual production capacity reaches 25 billion prints per double shift. The varieties range from monochrome machine to two-color machine and four-color machine. Baosteel Group has invited tenders to introduce the first fully automatic and high-precision 7-color iron printing production line in China for the development of related industries. At that time, it will promote the level of domestic iron printing technology and equipment to a new level. At present, the largest metal three piece can packaging in China is COFCO packaging's Hangzhou COFCO Meite, Panyu Meite and Wuxi Huapeng bottle cap companies, which have L2 printing and 9 coating lines and imported printing and coating lines, with an annual consumption of more than 10000 tons of tinplate

2) two piece can market (including aluminum and steel) China's aluminum two-piece can started in 1979. After 1983, China has introduced L4 two-piece production lines from the United States, Italy and Japan. In the 1990s, the homogenization of universal testing machines was serious, and improving product quality was the key era. After that, it carried out production technology transformation and introduced high-speed production lines. At present, China has 23 aluminum two-piece can factories, and 26 high-speed production lines (1000-1800 cans per minute) with an annual production capacity of 12billion cans. In the long run, China's per capita consumption is only 4.6 cans, which cannot be compared with 380 cans per capita in the United States, and the market potential is great. However, in the near future, the market demand is only 7.4 billion cans, which is not much different from 5 cans per capita in Southeast Asia, and the development space is limited

the further acceptance of aluminum two-piece cans also depends on the localization of aluminum materials for can making. At present, hundreds of thousands of tons of aluminum materials are imported every year, with an annual cost of nearly US $300million

at the end of the Ninth Five Year Plan period, aluminum cans increased by 17.7% over the end of the Eighth Five Year Plan period. The predicted output at the end of the fifteenth Five Year Plan period is 9.6 billion cans, an increase of 60% over the end of the Ninth Five Year Plan period. It is expected to reach 11.5 billion cans by 2010

3) three piece can market (fruit juice beverage, canned food)

China's three piece can of beverage and food is the main market of metal tinplate packaging. Three piece cans of drinks mainly refer to juice cans without gas (coconut milk, almond juice, milk, eight treasure porridge, etc.); Canned food mainly refers to the packaging of agricultural and sideline products, such as mushrooms, asparagus, citrus, poached asparagus, lunch meat, tuna, ketchup, etc. Metal packaging has long been a supporting industry for export cans and domestic fruit juice packaging. At present, the country has more than 300 imported production lines of three cans, 40% of which are 800-1200 cans per minute, and the rest are medium and low-speed production lines, with an average of 400 cans per minute. The total annual production capacity has reached 23billion cans. However, the actual consumption demand in 2000 was only 7billion cans, with 3.5 billion cans exported and 4billion cans of beverages. Although China's per capita consumption is still far lower than that of developed countries, it is still difficult to produce drinks with certain corrosion resistance due to the constraints of living habits, consumption levels, the formation of stable and popular famous brands, as well as the corresponding manufacturing technology and capital. Only neutral products such as Babao porridge, coconut milk and almond juice can be produced. Three piece cans have not launched more fashionable, more convenient and lighter successor products, which limits their development

4) aerosol tank Market

after 20 years of development, aerosol tanks in China have begun to take shape. Aerosol technology has been widely used in the fields of sanitation, pest control, chemical industry and cosmetics. It has also been developed in food and medicine. Xinda company is in the leading position in the research and development of high molecular composite materials related technologies. The output of aerosol cans in China has increased from 30million cans in the mid-1980s to 560million cans in 2002. Stimulated by SARS consumption, the demand surged to 610million cans in 2003, an increase of 18 times in 15 years. It is the fastest-growing product category of metal packaging

$page break $5) the total demand for all kinds of bottle caps (including easy pull caps)

the total demand for caps made in China was about 40billion in 2000, mainly including easy pull caps, anti-theft caps, unscrewing caps and crown caps of various metals. Since the 1990s, stimulated by the rapid development of beer and various beverage industries, bottle cap factories have introduced a large number of bottle cap production lines. At present, China has nearly 200 imported stamping production lines, with speeds ranging from 110000, 140000 and 270000 per hour. The annual production capacity of all kinds of bottle caps is more than 70billion, while the actual consumption of beer is less than 30billion and beverages are 5billion, with supply exceeding demand. In the field of tinplate bottle cap Market, Wuxi huapengjia Duobao bottle cap Co., Ltd., Shanghai Ziquan Packaging Co., Ltd. and Shandong Lipeng Packaging Co., Ltd. are leading enterprises in the capping industry. Zhejiang Changhong capping and Yiwu capping are emerging enterprises of tinplate large opening caps and special-shaped caps. Easy pull covers mainly include aluminum easy pull covers, easy pull covers with large openings on tinplate, and special-shaped easy pull covers with large openings

Yilagai increased by 15% at the end of the Ninth Five Year Plan period compared with the end of the Eighth Five Year Plan period. The predicted output at the end of the fifteenth Five Year Plan period is 16billion, an increase of 61.3% compared with the end of the Ninth Five Year Plan period. It is expected to reach 25.9 billion by 2010

6) miscellaneous cans

miscellaneous cans mainly refer to various special-shaped cans other than typical standard cans, such as chemical gifts. In recent years, with the development of building materials, real estate and automobile industry, various fine chemical products such as automotive paint and household paint have been developed