Competitors in aluminum packaging

 In the past, the single beverage market restricted the development of beverage packaging. With the improvement of people's living standard, purified water, carbonated drinks, tea drinks, dairy drinks, fruit juice drinks and functional drinks appeared one after another.

The booming beverage market is also driving the beverage packaging market.

Today, the beverage packaging market is no longer a glass container, but metal containers, plastic containers, paper containers and other competitive situation.

Glass is a packaging material with a long history.

In the face of the influx of many packaging materials into the market, glass containers still play an important role in beverage packaging, because it has the packaging characteristics that cannot be replaced by other packaging materials.

The main features of glass packaging container are: non-toxic, tasteless, transparent, beautiful, good barrier, air tight, rich raw materials, low price, and can be used for many times.

It is because of its many advantages, so it has become a fruit tea, jujube juice and many other drinks with high requirements for packaging containers of the preferred material.

However, since the glass packaging container is heavy, easy to break, high transportation costs, printing and other secondary processing performance is poor, leading to a significant reduction in the use.

Paper containers are used in beverage packaging, mainly refers to the paper and plastic composite packaging containers made of paper composite PE film or aluminum foil, such as Tetra Pack, Kangmei pack, etc., forming a roof bag, sterile square brick, etc., with low cost, light weight, pollution-free, recyclable and other characteristics, is green packaging.

It is mainly used in the packaging of fresh milk, yoghurt, milk drink, tea drink and fruit juice for short-term preservation.

However, the pressure resistance and sealing barrier of paper-plastic composite containers are not as good as those of glass bottles, metal cans and plastic containers, nor can they be heated to kill bacteria. Therefore, compared with most of the existing packaging materials, metal packaging has a certain competitive advantage in the beverage market.

Take the United States for example, in 2004, there were more than 84 billion soft drink packaging containers in the United States, among which metal cans accounted for 57.8 billion, PET bottles accounted for nearly 26 billion, while glass containers accounted for only 736 million. The potential of aluminum bottle packaging in the beverage industry is huge.

However, it must be pointed out that in the beverage market PET (polyester) with its "capacity large, transparent, intuitive is strong, lightweight easy to open, cold storage, easy to carry, solid, recycled" wait for a characteristic, in recent years, the share of continue to rise, in Europe and the United States and other countries and metal containers tied on soft drinks packaging market, and the growth of PET bottle still has great potential in the future.

Therefore, the emerging "aluminum packaging heat" in the North American beverage market in recent years may not lead the trend of beverage packaging.

To be precise, aluminum bottle packaging has only enriched and enriched the diversified world beverage packaging market, but it is still time to see who will dominate the future beverage packaging market.