Because of the paper packaging has the advantages of low cost, light weight, easy processing recyclable, biodegradable, in recent years, the paper packaging in four kinds of packaging materials (paper packaging, plastic packaging, glass packaging and metal packaging) to occupy a dominant position in 2012, total output of paper packaging accounted for 39%, high ranked second out of 6 plastic packaging a percentage point.
Corrugated box as a paper packaging products mainly, compared with metal, plastics, glass, wood packaging products, waste less, easy to decompose and recycling, and non-toxic degradable environmental protection water-based ink used in printing, green package products recognized "". Future, environmental protection, economy also makes corrugated box demand more exuberant. As the green packaging, economic packaging, corrugated box is the substitution effect is good for other packaging products, the use of more and more widely, become the development direction of packaging industry. With the corrugated box demand enhance stability, as well as printing equipment renewal, corrugated carton printing equipment market scale is expanding steadily and rapidly, according to the China Packaging Federation paper products committee statistics, domestic corrugated box printing machinery market regulation mode will be increased from $4200000000 in 2011 to 7400000000 yuan in 2016.