The Growth Potential of Paper Packaging in the Bakery Industry

​Food paper packaging in Europe

Entering a European restaurant, bakery products are packaged with paper, as well as paper tubes, bags, and boxes.  In various kinds of food paper packaging, the largest proportion of paper bags and paper tubes.  Some cakes containing cream and other baked goods, to prevent deformation, they are first packed into a paper tube, and then packaged in paper bags.

​Benefits of replacing plastic with paper

The reason why paper packaging materials in the field of packaging monopoly, the cause is paper packaging has a series of unique benefits, such as, good at processing performance;  high printing performance;  Health and safety;  wide range of sources of raw materials;  easy to form a high-volume production;  with certain mechanical properties, to facilitate the composite processing and recyclable waste.

While plastic packaging is also a low-cost material, there are obvious disadvantages to its use in food packaging.  Plastic packaging has certain safety concerns as well as the problem of environmental pollution from packaging waste.

Versatility in paper packaging

The development of paper packaging to adapt to the needs of green packaging, can undertake a variety of food packaging tasks.  Paper packaging is moving towards the direction of multifunctional development.

Moisture-proof: Spray waterproof material on the surface of the paper, making it into a film attached to one or both sides of the paper, so that the food packaging paper has moisture-proof performance.

Preservation of freshness:The paper pulp is made by chemical treatment and addition of selective resins to preserve the freshness of baked goods.

Sterilization and anti-corrosion: Inject sterilization or anti-corrosion raw materials into the pulp, so that the paper packaging has the effect of preventing the invasion of bacteria and delaying the deterioration of food.