Polypropylene applications in the film industry

BOPP film has the advantages of light weight, high mechanical strength, good dimensional stability, etc. It is widely used in the packaging field, especially in the field of food packaging. BOPP film can be divided into optical film, smoke film, electrical film, pearl film according to the purpose. At present, these products can be produced in China. Although China's BOPP film production started relatively late, it has a higher starting point for technical equipment.

China's BOPP film production enterprises are mainly concentrated in South China and East China, and their production capacity accounts for more than 70% of the country. Among them, the production capacity of a Guangdong province accounts for 1/3 of the country. Guangdong Foshan Oriental Packaging Material Co., Ltd. is China's largest BOPP production company, with production accounting for about one-tenth of the country. In addition, Guangdong is also the distribution center for China's imported BOPP film. In Chaozhou alone, there are more than 200 merchants that operate BOPP film. The annual sales volume is more than 20,000 tons. Most of them are imported products, mainly smoke film. And pearl film.

The consumption of PP resin in the domestic PP film is in the third place, and the demand growth rate is very fast in recent years. In 1998, the demand in this area was only 430,000 tons, and in 2004 it exceeded 1.1 million tons. It is expected that the growth rate of demand in 2005 will be around 15%. According to the processing technology, PP film products mainly include BOPP, CPP, and IPP films.


Because of its moisture-proof, high mechanical strength, good dimensional stability, light weight, non-toxic, odorless, and good printing performance, PP film is widely used in printing (labels, etc.), coating, cigarettes, food and agricultural and sideline product packaging bags. , vacuum aluminum plating, capacitors and so on.

BOPP has high strength, high gas barrier property, good printing performance and tear resistance, and it is the most consumed product in PP film products, and has the most extensive application. Due to the large profit margin and rapid growth in demand for BOPP film in the past few years, BOPP film production lines in various parts of the country have been ramping up since 2000, resulting in a serious surplus of production capacity, fierce market competition, and a decline in profits. In particular, the price of PP resin rose sharply last year, while the price of BOPP film did not rise. According to analysis by AMI Consulting, in 2001, the world's BOPP film market exceeded 3 million tons for the first time. At present, there are more than 100 BOPP film production lines in China. In 2002, the output of BOPP film has reached 390,000 tons, but the actual annual production capacity can reach about 650,000 tons. There are more than 80 domestic BOPP film manufacturers, and the larger companies include: 20,000 tons/year BOPP film production line of Fushun Petrochemical Company, which can provide various specifications of BOPP products such as smoke film, extinction film, pearl film, etc.; The plastics company's 250,000-ton/year BOPP film production line has imported Brückner's equipment from Germany; the company's holding company, Jiangyin Shenpeng Packaging Materials Factory, has a 25,000-ton/year production line, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries introduced a production line this year. The company plans to build two 25,000-ton/year production lines, with a scale of over 80,000 tons/year; Zhejiang Huisheng Plastics Co., Ltd., with a 14,000-ton/yr Bruckner production line; and Baosuo Co., Ltd., which will introduce 25,000 tons of French DMT. The production line of the year has been put into production; the 35,000-ton/year production line of Anhui Guofeng Plastic Industry Co., Ltd. has been put into production. It is the largest BOPP film production line in Asia; Shunde Deguan Company, Sichuan Dongsheng Company, Shanghai Jinpu Company, Guangdong Hongming Company, and Heilongjiang Province. Qinggang companies will all set up a 25,000-ton/year production line in the near future. The production of so many production lines will make the competition more fierce and increase the demand for domestically produced BOPP raw materials.

Since 2003, the price competition in China's BOPP film market has been in a white-hot state, the sales price has dropped by 23%, and the Chinese polypropylene (BOPP) film market has been oversupply, and the profits of most manufacturers have fallen. According to the research report of the British PCI film consulting company, from 2003 to 2005, China's new PP film production capacity accounted for half of the total new capacity planned for the world during the same period, and the average annual growth rate will be about 10%. In the next two years, China's BOPP membrane capacity will increase from the current 1.5 million tons to 2 million tons per year, and its share of the world's total production capacity will increase from the current 23% to 29%, surpassing Europe’s number one in the world. In this regard, industry experts believe that in addition to strengthening management, reducing costs, and improving quality, major companies must also work hard to develop new products and produce multi-functional specialty films such as smoke films, matting films, pearl films, aluminized films, and antibacterial films. And so on, and we must devote ourselves to exploring foreign markets.

On the other hand, domestic BOPP film products have certain gaps in terms of scale, variety, etc. compared with foreign countries. For example, Exxon Mobil Corporation produces more than 200,000 tons of BOPP film each year, and has nearly 40 varieties. The application field is broad. The domestic variety is single, small scale and high cost. Therefore, there is still a considerable amount of BOPP film products imported from abroad. Although in recent years, domestic BOPP plants have also introduced some new products, such as the BOPP color printing positioning anti-counterfeiting cigarette packaging film, BOPP ultra-low temperature heat-sealing cigarette coating film, BOPP anti-pollution flower packaging film introduced by Nanjing Zhongda Group. And so on, but there is still a lot of work to do in terms of product innovation and narrowing the gap with foreign products, which is a new challenge for resin and film manufacturers.

The proportion of CPP in PP film is small, but as the quality of PP resin is improved, the performance of the equipment is improved, and the processing capability is improved, the performance gap between CPP and BOPP film is gradually narrowing. This will lead CPP to seize more market share from BOPP and increase new application areas. BOPP producers and CPP producers originally targeted their products in different markets, with different applications and well waters not guilty of river water. However, in recent years, the market situation has quietly changed and CPP has gradually penetrated into the market of BOPP. This development trend is most intense in Asia, especially in China. This is mainly due to the fact that most of the BOPP films produced in China use general-grade raw materials and the film characteristics are limited, which weakens its competitive advantage over ordinary CPP films. CPP can be applied to the production of wraps, labels and special packaging. Compared with BOPP, CPP has two advantages: high heat sealing strength and production cost

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