Five Trends in Food Packaging Equipment by 2025

May 12, 2025 Viewd 1

Explosive growth in demand for prepared vegetable packaging

With the market size of prepared vegetables exceeding 516.5 billion yuan (2023 data), the bag vacuum packaging machine has become the core equipment. Its automation to take the bag, vacuum, sealing and other functions can extend the shelf life of food, suitable for the central kitchen standardized production needs. Zhejiang Mingrui Intelligent and other companies have launched integrated weighing and foreign object detection function of intelligent models, efficiency increased by more than 30%.

 

Sustainable packaging technology to accelerate the landing

Degradable film and single material composite packaging technology has become a hot spot for research and development. Germany Krones and other companies launched bio-based PLA material production line, with digital printing technology to achieve environmental protection marking visualization, reduce recycling and sorting costs.

 

Flexible production line becomes standard

Data from Chengdu International Packaging Exhibition shows that 76% of the exhibitors' equipments support quick mold change, such as Qingdao Yilong's modular bag-making machine that can switch different bag types within 5 minutes to meet the demand for small-lot customization, and the AI visual inspection system that synchronizes to improve the yield rate to 99.5%.

 

Internet of things integration depth application

Zhuhai Pengcai and other enterprises introduced intelligent packaging machine equipped with remote monitoring module, through the sensor real-time feedback equipment status and energy consumption data, predictive maintenance to reduce downtime by 40%.

 

Functional packaging technology breakthroughs

Active packaging (such as oxygen-absorbing film) and smart labels (time-temperature indicator) began to be commercialized, Japan Toyo Can has introduced RFID tags that can sense the freshness of food packaging solutions.