The Function and Classification of Packaging

Food is indispensable and irreplaceable in our lives, so have you ever thought about why the food we see is packaged?

The role of packaging

1. Protecting goods: Protecting goods is one of the important functions of product packaging boxes. During the circulation process, products may be affected by various external factors, causing damage, contamination, leakage or deterioration of the goods. Scientific and reasonable packaging can make goods resist damage from various external factors.

2. Facilitate circulation: Packaging provides conditions and convenience for product circulation. Products are packaged in a certain quantity, shape, specification, size and in different containers, and various signs are usually printed on the outside of the product packaging to reflect the product name, quantity, specification, color and overall packaging volume, Gross weight, net weight, factory name, factory address and precautions during storage and transportation, etc. This is not only beneficial to the distribution and counting of goods, but also beneficial to the storage and transportation effect, and improves the economic benefits of the product.

3. Promote sales: Exquisite product packaging can beautify products, promote products and promote sales. Packaging can not only improve the market competitiveness of goods, but also attract customers and guide consumption with its novel and unique artistic charm, becoming the main driving force for consumer purchases.

4. Convenient consumption: Packaging comes in various forms depending on the product, making it easy for consumers to carry, store and use. The drawings, trademarks and text descriptions on the packaging not only facilitate consumers' identification, but also introduce the ingredients, properties, uses, usage and storage methods of the goods, which play a role in facilitating and guiding consumption.

5. Cost savings: Reasonable packaging can integrate scattered goods in a certain quantity, thereby greatly increasing the loading capacity and facilitating loading, unloading and transportation, and saving transportation fees, warehousing fees and other expenses. Some packaging can also be recycled multiple times, saving the production of packaging materials and packaging containers, which is beneficial to reducing costs and improving economic benefits.

Packaging classification

1. According to its role in the circulation process, packaging can be divided into sales packaging and transportation packaging.

2. According to the classification of packaging structure, packaging can be divided into: skin packaging, blister packaging, heat shrink packaging, convenience packaging, tray packaging, collective packaging, etc.

3. According to the packaging texture, it can be divided into: rigid packaging and flexible packaging.

4. According to the number of times the packaging is used, it can be divided into: one-time packaging and reusable packaging.

5. According to the classification of packaged products, it can be divided into: food packaging, chemical product packaging, toxic goods packaging, and fragile goods packaging.

6. According to the classification of product use, it can be divided into flammable product packaging, handicraft packaging, household appliances packaging, sundries packaging, etc. Some special products also have corresponding packaging regulations.

7. According to the classification of sales objects, packaging is divided into: export packaging, domestic packaging, military packaging and civilian packaging.

8. According to packaging technology methods, packaging is divided into: vacuum inflatable packaging, controlled atmosphere packaging, deoxygenated packaging, moisture-proof packaging, soft can packaging, aseptic packaging, thermoforming packaging, heat shrink packaging, buffer packaging, etc.