With the development of China's economy and the adjustment of the rural industrial structure, the market demand for plastic films in all walks of life in China is rising steadily. At present, the output of plastic film in China accounts for about 20% of the total output of plastic products, which is one of the categories of plastic products with rapid output growth. It is predicted that the global plastic film and sheet market consumption is expected to reach 50.7 million tons in 2015, of which the Asia Pacific region is expected to become the fastest growing regional market. China's plastic film industry is in a state of structural contradiction between supply and demand

With the development of economy and the adjustment of rural industrial structure, the market demand for plastic film in all walks of life in China is rising. The forward-looking industry research institute released a forecast that the market size of China's plastic film industry will exceed 500 billion yuan in 2017. At present, China's plastic film is in a state of structural contradiction between supply and demand. The supply of traditional film exceeds the demand, while the supply of high-tech film exceeds the demand.

It is reported that in 2012, China's plastic film industry realized a total industrial output value of 219.186 billion yuan and sales revenue of 217.951 billion yuan. Among them, the plastic packaging industry achieved a total industrial output value of 147.192 billion yuan and sales revenue of 146.145 billion yuan, accounting for 67.15% and 67.05% of the total industrial output value and sales revenue of the plastic film industry respectively.

From the perspective of packaging types, in 2012, the sales revenue of plastic packaging in China reached 146.145 billion yuan; The sales revenue of glass packaging reached 55.386 billion yuan; The sales revenue of metal packaging reached 10.7026 billion yuan, which shows that in 2012, China's plastic packaging accounted for the main market share of the packaging industry, leading the way in packaging materials such as glass and metal.

The report said that in recent years, China's plastic film production has increased year by year, with an average annual growth rate of 15%. " During the 12th Five Year Plan period, the plastic film market will maintain a capacity expansion of more than 20%. It is estimated that in 2017, China's plastic film output will reach 19578600 tons, and the market size will reach 542.331 billion yuan.

At present, China's plastic film industry is in a stage of vigorous development. It is reported that the demand for plastic film in China will grow at a rate of more than 9% every year. Moreover, with the continuous emergence of various new materials, new equipment and new processes, the plastic film in China will develop towards variety diversification, specialization and multi-function composite film.

With the development of the industry, the competition in the plastic film manufacturing industry continues to intensify. The domestic outstanding plastic film manufacturers are paying more and more attention to the research on the industry market, especially the in-depth research on the industry development environment and product buyers. Just because of this, a large number of domestic excellent plastic film manufacturing brands have risen rapidly, and gradually become the best in the plastic film manufacturing industry in China and the world.

China's plastic film industry needs to increase technical input

Experts predict that the demand for plastic film in the domestic market will continue to grow at a rate of 9% in the next few years, and the market prospect of plastic film in China is very broad. In China, about 2/3 of plastic film consumption is used as packaging materials, agricultural plastic film accounts for about 30%, and the rest is used as electrical materials, light-sensitive materials, electronic information materials, etc.

China is the country with the largest production and use of agricultural plastic film. Agricultural plastic film is mainly a modern agricultural covering material, such as shed film and mulch film, forage film, sunshade net, insect proof net, etc. At present, the annual use of various greenhouse films in China is about 1.5 million tons, and the annual renewal demand is about 700000 tons. The films used are ordinary PVC film, PVC drip free film, ordinary polyethylene film, polyethylene drip free film, polyethylene multi-function composite film and EVA multi-function composite film. The plastic film coverage area in China has increased by about 10 million mu per year on average. At present, the plastic film coverage area has reached more than 200 million mu, and the actual consumption of plastic film is about 450000 tons per year, ranking first in the world. The area of farmland suitable for film mulching in China is about 37 million hectares. With the rapid development of agricultural science and technology, the demand for mulching film will continue to grow.

Polypropylene films produced in China are mainly biaxially oriented film (BOPP), cast film (CPP) and other packaging films. Biaxially oriented film products are widely used in food flexible packaging, color printing, clothing and other industries. At present, China has the production capacity of biaxially oriented polypropylene films of about 900000 tons/year. 75% of the biaxially oriented polypropylene films produced are ordinary optical films, only 10% are smoke films, about 7% are pearlescent films, 3% are electrical films, and about 5% are other films.

At present, China's plastic film industry is facing significant development opportunities. Enterprises should increase technology investment, make rational use of resources, and make up for deficiencies in production technology and material supply as soon as possible, so as to win more market shares in the plastic film market.