The trend of machines replacing manual labor: The packaging machinery industry has great market potential.

With the increasing aging population and rising labor costs, coupled with the maturity of industrial robots and automation technologies, the improved intelligence level of packaging machinery is gradually reducing production costs. This is increasing the willingness and cost-effectiveness of enterprises to implement intelligent deployments. In some sectors, intelligent packaging equipment can not only replace manual labor in repetitive tasks but also acquire, store, process, and share production information, assisting enterprises in making rational decisions and significantly improving production efficiency and saving labor costs.

Furthermore, packaging machinery can improve the standardization and precision of the production process. Taking the downstream food industry as an example, traditional food packaging equipment requires a large amount of manual operation in actual production, which inevitably leads to inadequate supervision and improper operation, easily resulting in food contamination or safety hazards. Intelligent packaging machinery applies technologies such as sensing, communication, and artificial intelligence to monitor various parameters on the production line, quickly eliminate unqualified products, and improve the safety and hygiene of food production.

Therefore, packaging machinery has become one of the key elements for enterprises to improve production efficiency, reduce labor intensity, improve the working environment, save labor costs, optimize production processes, and achieve large-scale production, with promising development prospects and significant market potential. 

my country's packaging machinery industry started in the 1950s, initially mainly used for packaging cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, toothpaste, and other products. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, with the development of the commodity economy, the industry imitated imported equipment and cultivated a large number of professionals. By the late 1980s, domestically produced equipment was comprehensive, but its technological level was relatively low. In the early 1990s, foreign investment spurred technological progress. Entering the 21st century, domestic enterprises accelerated their development, and the technological content of their equipment continuously improved.

Although internationally renowned brands such as Tetra Pak, Krones, and Sidel occupy the high-end market, some domestic enterprises, after years of effort, have developed independent R&D and production capabilities. Domestic enterprises leverage their localization advantages to provide rapid after-sales service, making their prices more competitive, gradually breaking through international monopolies, and their technological level is approaching international advanced levels.

According to statistics, my country's output of packaging equipment reached 263,400 units in 2020, increasing to 733,500 units in 2023, indicating a clear trend of domestic substitution and a significant decrease in imports.

The packaging machinery industry is one of the sub-sectors of the intelligent manufacturing industry encouraged and supported by national and local governments. In recent years, the Chinese government has attached great importance to the intelligent and digital transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and has successively introduced relevant policies to support the vigorous development of the intelligent manufacturing industry.