Preliminary discussion on the easy open can industry

Aluminum can was invented in the 1960s, after more than 30 years of development has formed a huge scale of production in the world, the supply and demand relationship has appeared serious imbalance.Even in the United States, the country with the fastest development of easy open can technology and the highest consumption level, the production capacity of the can factory increased faster than the consumption demand in recent years. The production capacity increased by 2% a year, while the demand increased by 1% a year.In addition, due to the rapid rise of various packaging containers in recent years, especially the rapid development of PET containers and the expansion of packaging functions, the competition in beverage and beer packaging market has been intensified.In foreign countries, cost reduction has become the main melody of the development of the can industry, can manufacturers, mold manufacturers, equipment manufacturers around the cost reduction and constantly develop new products, or even take the way of asset restructuring, some international business authoritative analysis organizations predict that some high-cost can plants in the United States will be closed because of the inability to compete.

The domestic can industry began in the 1980s, when the annual output was only 2.4 billion cans. With the completion of major technical transformation of the original can factory and the capital input of foreign can investors, the annual production capacity of China's cans has exceeded 10 billion cans.Although domestic demand for cans increases year by year, but the serious imbalance between supply and demand is an unavoidable fact.In order to survive, the tank factory every year appears' internal consumption 'type of price reduction sales, which on the one hand leads to the tank factory itself in a state of loss operation, on the other hand hindering the development of China's tank industry.As a result of the competition, the beverage and brewery are the beneficiaries on the surface, but in the long run, packaging manufacturers are unable to significantly reduce the cost of packaging, and as a result of the use of packaging drinks and beer industry is difficult to reduce the packaging cost of their own products, thus hindering consumption, and the final victim.

Therefore, reducing the cost is the only way for the survival and development of the domestic can industry, and taking the horizontal combination of the can factory and beverage, brewery is the way suited to the national conditions, is an effective way to achieve substantial cost reduction, which drinks, brewery is also the beneficiary.

The union will boost the pot industry

China is a big cans consumer potential market, if more than a few cans of consumption per person per year, so aggregate demand will go up, of course not like American people have an annual consumption of more than 400 cans of level, only a quarter of his, so the tank factory not sorrow days maybe, but China is China's national conditions, it is urban population accounts for about 80%, there is no doubt this is a big market, but also a big topic of tin industry, is how to make canned food price for consumers to bear, even make them than economical consumption glass bottles.The only way to achieve this goal is to reduce the cost of this commodity.In recent years, due to the decline in aluminum prices, the cost of cans in the United States decreased by 4% from the second half of 1998 to the first half of 1999. The decline in the price of cans made the consumption of cans in the United States reach more than 100 billion each year and kept the upward trend.

There are two main ways to reduce the cost of foreign pot manufacturers, one is economies of scale.Foreign tank industry after more than 30 years of development, production has formed a collectivization, with a considerable scale, on the basis of such a constant increase in equipment or increase the production speed to expand the scale is easy.However, the scale of domestic tank factories is relatively small compared with that of foreign countries. In recent years, most of the tank factories are operating at a loss, so it is difficult to spend a large sum of money to reintroduce technology and equipment to expand the scale.In addition, in the current situation of serious imbalance between supply and demand to expand the scale, will undoubtedly further deterioration of the demand relationship.Obviously, this approach to cost reduction is not suitable for the domestic situation.

The second is to reduce the cost of raw materials.Relying on scientific and technological progress to reduce costs can achieve twice the result with half the effort.Tank industry is a set of metallurgy, chemical, machinery, electronics and other industries in one of science and technology, to reduce the cost of raw materials is dependent on the progress of science and technology in these industries.

(1) reduce the thickness of thin aluminum plate.(2) change the shape of the can.