Green Intelligence Leads, Capacity Layout Optimized

Currently, as a core category in the packaging industry, the demand for cartons continues to rise with the iteration of the e-commerce and logistics industries, driving the synchronous upgrading of the carton equipment industry. From an international perspective, greenization, intelligence, and regionalization have become the core development directions of the industry, while the actual production end has also achieved dual improvements in efficiency and quality through technological innovation.
At the international level, the global carton industry is undergoing structural changes, with environmental protection and intelligence becoming key driving forces. Seventy-five countries have implemented packaging environmental protection standards, and the European Union has mandated that the mandatory recyclable content of packaging reach 65%, promoting the proportion of recycled fibers used to rise to 68% and the popularization rate of water-based printing technology to 82%. In terms of intelligence, technologies such as the Industrial Internet of Things and full servo drive have been widely applied, increasing production line efficiency by 30%, reducing unit energy consumption by 18%, and the embedding rate of intelligent labels has jumped from 15% in 2023 to 42% in 2025. Supply chain restructuring has promoted regional capacity layout, with the annual growth rate of carton capacity in Southeast Asia reaching 12%, making it the core region for global capacity expansion, and leading domestic enterprises have successively gone overseas to deploy their layouts.

In actual production, carton production has transformed towards high efficiency, energy conservation, and flexibility. Mainstream enterprises generally adopt fully automatic corrugated cardboard production lines, and intelligent detection systems are widely used to monitor production defects in real time, reducing the defective product rate from the traditional 5%-8% to about 0.8%.

In the future, with the tightening of environmental protection policies and technological innovation, the global carton and carton equipment industry will continue to transform towards greenization and intelligence, and the production end will further optimize the capacity structure, balance efficiency and sustainability, and adapt to diversified market demands.