China's Packaging Machinery Market Research Report - PMMI

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3.5 Beverage Packaging Machinery
3.5.1 Quantity status of imported beverage packaging machinery
After 20 years of hard work, the Chinese beverage industry is now equipped with
improved machinery. Some advanced machinery was imported to update over 350
filling machinery assemblies, producing more than 3.5 million tons of extra capacity.
According to Ministry of Industry statistics, since 1978 the following have been
imported:
a) 158 carbonated beverage glass-filling assemblies.
b) 18 metal can filling assemblies, with the filling speed of 150~500 cans
per minute, and an annual filling capacity of 267,708 tons.
c) 42 Tetra Pack flexible packaging filling assemblies, with the packaging
speed of 75~150 packages per minute, and an annual filling capacity of
113,400 tons. (Tetra Pack Company from Sweden states that more than
100 assemblies have been sold to China.)
d) 6 standing pouch filling assemblies, with the packaging speed of
30~160 pouches per minute, and an annual filling capacity of 11,604
tons.
e) 2 roof-type filling assemblies, with the packaging speed of 20 packages
per minute, and an annual filling capacity of 1,400 tons.
f) 12 Tetra Package filling assemblies, with the packaging speed of 75~83
packages per minute, and an annual filling capacity of 34,560 tons.
g) 13 sets of Aluminum two-piece can manufacture machinery.
h) Aluminum pop-up manufacturing machinery.
i) 2 sets of manufacture machinery for compound materials applied to
Tetra Packages.
j) 2 sets of manufacture machinery for standing pouch compound
materials.
k) 38 sets of crown cap manufacture machinery.
l) More than 40 condensed fruit juice assemblies were imported to
process over 400 thousand tons of raw fruit annually.
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