As the plastic material in terms of hardness, heat resistance, toughness, etc. to improve the performance of Et trend, the European food and beverage industry, a growing use of material to replace traditional paper-based packaging materials, glass and metal packaging. It is reported that by 2007, Europe's food and beverage plastic packaging market sales will grow to 7.15 billion U.S. dollars, an average annual growth rate of 5.5%.
At present, Europe's largest dairy company 5 has been used PET bottles, which is the development trend of dairy package Buddhist monk's robe.
It is predicted that the fastest sales growth will be enough to polypropylene packaging market, which will grow 10.7% polypropylene thermoplastic, transparent polypropylene will grow 9.5%;
Followed by the PET, annual growth rate of 9.2%, while the soft foam polystyrene and PVC market, the smallest increase, and may even stop growing.
Shed off statistics also show that the European food and drink industry use of plastic packaging materials, ceramics most countries are France, the ratio of 18.7%; followed by Italy, the ratio of 18%, Germany 17.2%.