In 2025, the global market demand of single material plastic packaging will reach 71 billion US dollars

Recently, Smithers published a special research report “the future of the single material plastic packaging film market 2025″, pointing out that the global single material plastic packaging film market has a compound annual growth rate of 3.5% from 2015 to 2019. In 2019, the global single material plastic packaging film market scale will be 20.44 million tons (55.9 billion US dollars), which may reach 26.03 million tons (70.9 billion US dollars) in 2025, with an annual compound growth rate of 3.9%. In 2020, the Asia Pacific region accounted for 48.6% of the global single material plastic packaging film market, 17.2% in North America and 15.5% in Western Europe.

The latest research shows that due to the policy and the concept of sustainable development, the use of single packaging materials has attracted more and more attention. At present, multi-layer and composite plastic packaging are widely used, but the recycling after use is very troublesome (the film of different materials needs to be peeled off, and then treated separately). Under the influence of ecological responsibility and local policies, major global brands have begun to promise to use single materials, such as Nordic chemical, Dow, ExxonMobil, Huangshan Yongxin, coveris, novachem Canada and SABIC, etc. in recent years, they have launched recyclable single material plastic films.

Coveris launches single material packaging with focus on Sustainable Development

Coveris launched a single material alternative at the Facepack conference in 2019 for dry pet food packaging, including snacks and snacks. Monoflex e is designed with 100% polyethylene and can be used for sealing seams and preformed bags.

In addition, the monoflex es version, developed in collaboration with Dow Chemical, also contains a PE film, but a special opuluxtm HGT coating is also applied to the top.

In addition, the flexible packaging giant also launched PE +, an innovative recyclable film designed for retail packaging applications.

At present, it can be used in various forms of filler sealing, and is a sustainable alternative to OPP plastics (such as fresh food that can be microwave processed). PE + material is made of polyethylene, which can provide functional performance, operational reliability, optimized shelf life and antifogging formula, which maximizes the convenience of end users.

Coveris also demonstrated its recyclable technology for palletized products. Using its multi-layer extrusion technology, the polyester barrier film combines with a unique sealing layer, so that the cover film can be directly heat sealed to the pet tray, so that 90% of the packaging weight can be recycled, while the previous recovery rate was zero.

Types of single material plastic packaging film

Polyethylene (PE) is currently the most widely used, accounting for 50% of the global single material plastic packaging film market share in 2020; polypropylene (PP) is the second largest category with a global market share of 41.7%; PVC and RCF are the third and fourth, accounting for 3.3% and 1.1% of the global market share respectively.

It is predicted that from 2020 to 2025, the market consumption of PP single material film will have an explosive growth. In some applications, in order to improve the printability, PP can be compounded with PE, and the recycling process is easy to handle. Therefore, PE single material film is another kind of fast growing material. The use of RCF materials will not increase much, while the use of PVC materials will decrease.

Main factors affecting single material Market

01 economic growth expectation

Since the beginning of the European Union, more and more countries and brand enterprises around the world promote circular economy, which has become an important factor affecting the application of recyclable single material plastic packaging. This measure aims to improve the efficiency of plastic recycling.

The novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic severely restricted the global economic growth in 2020. However, studies earlier this year showed that flexible packaging consumption will show a reverse growth in 2020, especially in Europe and North America.

02 barrier

In 2019, single material plastics accounted for 68.6% of the global flexible plastic packaging film production. Compared with 2015, this market share has decreased slightly. It reflects the market’s desire for packaging materials with softer structure and higher barrier properties to replace rigid plastic packaging.

According to the difference of sealing strength and barrier performance, single material structure can not meet the requirements of all applications. To overcome these limitations has also become the focus of R & D of related enterprises, and new innovative products are constantly introduced to the market. Nestle and AMCO, for example, announced in late September the development of a recyclable single material PP / OPP bag for pet food.

From 2020 to 2025, single material flexible packaging will continue to gain market share from the multi material packaging films used in some medium and low barrier bags. People will see more and more single material packaging using dehydrated food, detergent and dry pet food. However, in the field of liquid packaging, single material packaging bag is still more difficult to intervene.

03 easy to recycle packaging design

Good recycling design improves the quality of recycled plastics, thus increasing the use of recycled plastics and expanding its application fields. This is becoming a direct consideration for all packaging designs, including coated plastic and multi-layer material packaging. In order to achieve complete recyclability, all polyolefin layers should be made.

From the printing point of view, how to improve the design and reduce the use of ink is also a factor to be considered in packaging design. The most easily recycled packages are those that use less ink. Especially those color ink used less packaging. Due to the color plastic packaging mixed together, recycling will produce a dirty green. The use of this kind of green recycled raw materials is limited, which reduces the value of recycling.

It is feasible to reduce printing graphics for some brand goods. However, it is in conflict with the marketing needs of those who rely on packaging colors to attract consumers’ attention on supermarket shelves.

The blank of recyclability design is the core factor of high recovery cost and high regeneration cost. Product design only focuses on functionality, not recycling, and single material is just a concept. For example, takeout boxes and express packaging are composite materials, so it is difficult to form a closed loop. Recyclability design is a very large system, which includes not only single product recyclability system, but also recyclability design of each subdivision application field system, such as plastic film, catering packaging, flexible packaging, etc.

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Post time: Dec-16-2020

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