Classification of food packaging design materials

[China Packaging Network News] Food packaging design is a comprehensive reflection of brand philosophy, product characteristics, consumer psychology, and is a powerful means to build product and consumer affinity. The food packaging design ensures that the packaged food can resist various external destructive forces in the process of storage, transportation and handling, and also guarantees the beauty and generosity of the package. Therefore, different products have different requirements for packaging materials.

A wide range of packaging materials, features vary. Glass is one of the commonly used packaging materials. Its main features are aesthetics, hygiene, low cost, and low environmental pollution. The advantages of glass packaging: good barrier properties, not easily deformed, easy to seal, easy to beautify. The disadvantages are fragile and heavy.

Plastic packaging has the characteristics of light weight, corrosion resistance, rich colors, and beautiful features. It is rich in material sources and low in cost. It is widely used in food packaging. Disadvantages: Barrier properties are poorer than glass materials, not easily degradable, and cause serious environmental pollution.

Paper packaging plays a very important role in the modern packaging industry. Compared with other packaging materials, paper packaging has excellent printing performance, good hygiene and safety, various types, wide application and environmental protection. With the development of science and technology, edible wrapping paper is an important development direction of modern food packaging.

Metal packaging materials have high barrier properties, good moldability, high and low temperature resistance, good surface decoration, and easy recycling.

The choice of food packaging materials should be based on the characteristics of the product, packaging and storage methods to choose, scientific selection of protective packaging materials, the use of technological means, for the packaging of goods for reasonable structural design and packaging design. It is necessary to ensure the durability of the contents and extend the shelf life of the products, but do not increase the cost of the package because of the excess quality and performance. In brief, packaging material is a reprocessing of the product.