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The inseparable relations between plastic packaging machineries and the public health and food security
Plastics packaging machines are ever improving toward a safe and more environmentally friendly manufacturing future.
The issue of food security has become an issue highly concerned by the society particularly after several incidents exposed the vulnerability of the general public if the food industry is not 100% safe. But when the society forms discussion on the food security, not only should discussions on the ingredients consumed be highlighted, but the general public cannot undermine the crucial role of food packaging and packaging materials.Particularly when plastics consists the greatest majority of Taiwan’s packaging material. This situation is not only because of the prosperity of Taiwan’s plastics industry but it is also influenced by the mature development of plastics machineries and Taiwanese manufacturers.
Although in comparison to the export figure of 2015, Taiwan’s machinery exporting amount of 2016 between January and March has dropped in China (down 19.6%), but in the other regions such as the US (+10.7%), Japan (+23.8%), Korea (+21.6), Singapore (+20.6), Australia (+75.0%) have all reported certain degree of growth. The statistics implicate that Taiwan is increasing its export in many well-developed countries that have mature technique in machinery and know-hows – signifying that the machineries produced by Taiwan are competitive. Particularly in recent years Taiwan’s plastics machine manufacturers are improving the performance and technique of the equipment produced. They are also broadening the materials that the extruders, recycling or packaging machines can process. In addition, the machineries are highlighted by their automation, energy-saving and accurate features. These focuses will certainly increase the standard of safety and quality in the food packaging industry.
But how exactly do plastics packaging machines contribute to a more secure food industry? The core lies in the stable operations of the machines. To be concise, how the machines perform regarding temperature control, operating speed and waste handling all play essential roles for producing quality packing materials. And the improvements of these main features can effectively trickle down toan overall quality control from the upstream to the entire industrial chain. This chain covers fields such as food, medical, and daily used products specifically. In an era that people care much more about the transparency of ingredients’ source of origin,the manufacturing quality would inevitably be placed in the center. Therefore, the machines will then have to upgrade its precision and safety level to satisfy these requirements from customers’ end.
This route of upgrading is a must for every industrialized nation, and Taiwan in particular for being a main producer of extruders and packaging machineries. Most of the manufacturers are already running ahead of the tide to ensure Taiwan-made machineries remain their reputation in the world, and act as a changing power of a worry-less and secure food and packaging industry globally. The visitors will be able to witness the real examples of high-performance plastics machineries at Taipei PLAS that is coming up soon.
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