Food packaging machinery is with the emergence of new packaging materials, and packaging technology continues to innovate and develop. China's invention of paper-making technology, in history, for the production of paper packaging to provide the conditions. 1850 world paper prices fell, paper packaging began to be used for food. 1852, the United States of America's Wally invented a paper bag making machine, thus the emergence of paper products machinery. 1861 Germany established the world's first packaging machinery factory, and in 1911, the production of a fully automated form-fill-seal machine.

In 1890, the United States began production of liquid filling machine, 1902 and the production of gravity filling machine. the early 20th century, Britain's Durand used metal containers to save food, thus the emergence of a variety of canned food packaging.

Since the 1960s, new materials gradually replace the traditional packaging materials, especially after the use of plastic packaging materials, packaging machinery has undergone major changes. The rise of supermarkets, the packaging of goods put forward newer requirements. In order to ensure fast and safe delivery of goods, the container came into being, the container body size has gradually realized the standardization and serialization, thus prompting the further improvement and development of packaging machinery. International Mold Association Secretary-General Luo Baihui said that technology and energy saving will become an important direction for the future development of the packaging machinery industry. Packaging machinery industry, in addition to technological innovation in the machine itself, but also consider packaging materials, environmental protection and energy saving is an important issue in the packaging industry, many countries and social organizations have joined the packaging energy saving and environmental protection technology development. There are also some new environmentally friendly packaging products, such as the United Kingdom developed a carrot wrapping paper, both edible and can be used to package food; a Japanese research institute, soybean dregs as raw materials, made of a heat soluble edible wrapping paper. Packaging machinery to save labor costs and material costs is also excellent, it can make a production team of about 20 to 25 people to 4 to 5 people, and can be higher than manual production efficiency.

Europe and the United States with its strong economic and technological advantages of China's food packaging machinery enterprises to cause great pressure. Such as the United States is located in Iowa Le Mars is a high degree of automation of dairy processing enterprises. It cooperates with KukaRobotics to develop a palletizing robot that can still maintain reliable operation in extreme cold environments. The robot guarantees a high level of product quality and packaging speed. In the packaging machinery industry, it is considered a unique new technology, and is also a powerful tool for the enterprise to realize its globalization strategy. China's food packaging machinery industry technology innovation capacity is very weak, late start, insufficient scientific research force, the foundation is not solid enough and other reasons, to some extent, seriously affect the development of China's food industry.

China's food packaging machinery varieties of about 1,300 kinds, the lack of high-tech, high-precision, high-quality ancillary products, product performance is low, poor stability and reliability, short service life, rough surface treatment, modeling is not beautiful. Product development, but also basically stay in the test imitation stage, the ability to develop their own is not strong, less investment in scientific research, the funds accounted for only 1% of sales, while the developed countries as high as 8% to 10%. Currently, China's food packaging machinery development is characterized by the following:

One, food packaging machinery enterprises combined and electromechanical integration of low productivity

This reduces the environmental protection to some extent the profitability of the food packaging machinery enterprises, the direct impact of the enterprise to reduce the research and development of food packaging machinery costs, scientific research force is not enough vicious circle.

Two, most of the food packaging machinery enterprises to produce stand-alone mainly

Stand-alone production profits are meager, can not get a complete set of sales orders, but its technology content is moderate, inexpensive and suitable for developing countries and regions of the economic conditions, such as the ASEAN countries and the African region, etc., in the future, to the countries and regions of the broad prospects for export business.

Currently, to improve the scientific research power of food packaging machinery and rapid completion of the market transformation, to seize the opportunity of the development of China's food industry is the food packaging machinery enterprises urgently need to solve the problem. The main problems of food packaging machinery are:

Large gap with foreign products. China's food packaging machinery in recent years has made great achievements, but compared with foreign products there is still a 20-year technology gap. More than a single machine, a complete set of less; more than the host, less auxiliary machines; low technology content of more products, high technology, high value-added, high productivity products less; more general-purpose models, special requirements, special material processing models less.