The cast polyethylene film industry has made great progress, but there are still many difficulties

Cast polyethylene film, referred to as CPE film, refers to a type of controlled stretch produced by melt casting and quenching using polyethylene as raw material, modified masterbatch, metallocene and other materials as auxiliary materials. with oriented flat film. Cast polyethylene film has the advantages of high transparency, good hot tack, strong puncture resistance, and good anti-pollution heat sealing properties. It can be used in the packaging field as a packaging film for food, medicine, daily necessities, industrial products, etc.

my country’s cast polyethylene film industry started relatively late, with relevant research appearing only in the 1980s. However, through the continuous introduction of advanced technology and equipment, the industry’s development speed has continued to accelerate. Up to now, my country’s cast polyethylene film production equipment has basically been domestically produced, and related production technology has reached a high level. The industry is gradually moving from a rapid development stage to a mature development stage.

As the development of the industry continues to accelerate, in the domestic packaging fields of food, medicine, daily necessities, etc., cast polyethylene film has replaced PE blown film as the mainstream packaging film material, and its market demand continues to increase, which in turn drives production to continue to increase. According to the“2023-2028 Cast Polyethylene Film Industry Market In-depth Research and Investment Prospects Forecast Analysis Report” released by the Industrial Research Center It shows that domestic cast polyethylene film production in 2022 will be approximately 2.958 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 4.1%. At present, my country has become one of the major producers of cast polyethylene film in the world, and its output ranks among the top in the world.

But at the same time, the development of my country’s cast polyethylene film industry still faces difficulties such as increasingly fierce market competition, serious product homogeneity problems, and the increasing threat of substitutes. Specifically, in terms of market competition, there are currently a large number of cast polyethylene film companies in my country and the industry concentration is low. The main companies include Fushun Petrochemical, Hetai Runjia, Yanjiang Co., Ltd., Pujie Group, Ruoyi New Materials, and Yuanda. Plastics, Weidong Packaging, Shuangjin Industrial, Dayuan Nonwovens, Ruiting Plastics, etc.

In terms of product structure, my country’s cast polyethylene film product structure mainly presents a situation of “overcapacity of low-end products and insufficient supply of high-end products”. In the future, local companies will need to continue to improve their technical level and accelerate the development of high-end products to promote a continuous product structure. Optimize and upgrade.

Industry analysts said that in terms of the threat of substitutes, in the context of the gradual deepening of material science research, more materials with superior performance New materials are constantly emerging, and in the packaging field, cast polyethylene films face an increasing threat of substitutes. For example, under the current background of the continuous implementation of domestic plastic restriction orders, degradable plastics are gradually becoming new packaging film materials required in the food and pharmaceutical fields, and continue to seize market share of cast polyethylene films. Against this background, in the future, the domestic cast polyethylene film industry will continue to transform and upgrade in the direction of green, functional, and high-end, and promote the continuous optimization of the industrial structure. The industry still has broad room for development in the future.