Research And Production Linkage, Amcor Jiangyin Factory Sells 100 Million Packages Per Day!

"Research" and "production" linkage, Amcor Jiangyin factory sells 100 million packages per day!

The microwave self-exhaust bag creates a "steamer-style" heating environment, and it only takes tens of seconds to a few minutes to get a meal; A small piece of quantitative carrying, which can be easily opened by pressing with one hand; Glasses-free 3D packaging has both packaging and anti-counterfeiting functions, which greatly enhances brand recognition...... Recently, at the Amcor Asia-Pacific R&D Center located in the Lingang Development Zone, Amcor China Packaging Academy welcomed the first batch of students, and the first-of-its-kind packaging technologies born from the R&D center were presented in front of them. Xiaobian learned from the scene that under the empowerment of the integration of "research" and "production", Amcor's Jiangyin factory sells 100 million packages every day.

"100 million" is not achieved overnight. Amcor Group has been rooted in Lingang for more than 30 years and regards Lingang as its most important manufacturing base. In 2022, Amcor Group opened an important part of its global R&D network. "This is the first R&D center in the Asia-Pacific region, and there are four options in different countries when selecting the site, and finally we chose to land in Jiangyin Lingang, because of the obvious location advantages, complete industrial facilities, and seamless docking with the three factories in Jiangyin." She Xin, President of Amcor Group Greater China, said.

R&D and production are only separated by one road, and this convenience promotes the strong release of Amcor's innovation momentum. In the production workshop of the factory of Amcor's new materials division, a 10-million-level "giant" equipment is particularly eye-catching, and all kinds of film blowing machines are in full swing, and only a few people are needed to operate in the huge production workshop. It is understood that the factory relies on the strong R&D strength of the Asia-Pacific R&D center to achieve product development, such as "bag-in-box" and other new packaging technologies developed by the Chinese team have also begun to export to overseas markets.

The rapid growth of consumption in snacks, pets, coffee and other industries has brought new opportunities and challenges to the packaging industry. "Driven by live broadcast, the pace of new product listing has been greatly accelerated, it originally took half a year to a year for a new product to be launched, and now there will be new products launched every 2-3 months, which is also a big test for the innovation of packaging products." Wang Zhonglin, vice president of R&D of Amcor Group in Greater China, said that now, through the creative laboratory of the Asia-Pacific R&D center, the packaging ideas received from customers in the morning can be transformed into a prototype product that can be known and felt in the afternoon.

"Although a small film is only 6-7 filaments thick, it is composed of more than 10 films with different properties." The "high research value" of materials is inseparable from the "black technology" in the packaging production process, and the "100 million" is also supported by advanced technologies such as AI. "Safety is particularly important in the process of high-speed rotation of packaging production, and the dozens of devices used to monitor operating specifications, which used to take two hours to look back with the naked eye, are now completely entrusted to AI, and automatic identification takes only 18 minutes."

Among these 100 million packaging products, there are more and more high value-added products. "Amcor's only pharmaceutical packaging factory in China is in Lingang, Jiangyin." She Xin introduced that in the field of consumer goods packaging, Amcor is also improving performance while achieving carbon reduction and cost reduction, "like this luncheon meat packaging, in the past, tinplate packaging, transportation costs accounted for about 5%, now using 99% high vacuum packaging technology independent sheets, not only reduce transportation costs, but also reduce carbon footprint." "