Market and applications of construction plastics.

Although plastics are not always visible in buildings, the building and construction industry uses them for a wide and growing range of applications including insulation, piping, window frames and interior design. This growth is mainly due to plastics' unique features, plastics are known for their durability, aesthetics, high performance, and easy handling. In building and construction, plastic is mostly used in plumbing fixtures, insulation, doors, windows, bathroom units, railings etc. After the packaging industry, the building and construction industry is the largest consumer of plastics. Plastic is heavily used in fire safety equipment such as in smoke detectors and fire fighting systems in the building and construction sector. The various types of plastics used in building and construction include acrylics, polyethylene, polycarbonates, extended polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, etc. The main advantages of using plastics in building and construction are sustainability, innovation, cost efficiency, recyclability, and low maintenance. Mostly thermoplastics are widely used in the building and construction industry.


The aim of using plastics for lightweight construction is to achieve a maximum weight saving in individual components or parts by means of either the design, the material selection or the method of production. Plastics and rubber offer considerable potential in the field of lightweight construction, not only because of their low density compared with their metal and ceramic counterparts (i.e. weight saving attributable to the material), they also offer considerable flexibility in processing and design.

Since the construction of plastic with a light, inexpensive, etc., not only have been used in packaging industry such as PP woven bags,but also have been very widely used in the building. According to statistics data, the annual consumption of construction Plastic accounted for about 1/4 of total production of plastic, ranking the first in the application of plastics.

In fact, in Asia, South America and some other emerging market countries, the demand for construction plastics has rebounded significantly, particularly the demand for wood-plastic compounded materials, the demand increases 13% annual growth. With the economic recovery, consumers will remodel their houses, thus contributing to the development of wood-plastic compounded materials, plastic sides and other building products.

China is shortage of resources, the development of green building plastic especially has specific economic and social value. In recent years, green building plastics have been greatly developed, showing a good momentum. Experts point out that plastic materials which are non-toxic, harmless, non-polluting, will have high market demand in this century.

Pushing the national green building, will upgrade building materials, chemical industry, new energy and other downstream industries. Meanwhile, the industry is also looking forward to get double breakthrough in green building technology and policy support areas.

Green building is to meet the relevant evaluation criteria, and maximize energy efficiency in the whole life cycle, land, water, materials, protecting the environment and reduce pollution, provide people with healthy, suitable and efficient use of space, in harmony with nature building. The development of global construction industry is developing more and more well, construction plastic materials consumption will grow steadily in Asia, South America, as well as other emerging markets,the growth will be more faster.

China's plastic building materials industry annually grows average over 15%, and has become the second largest industry behind the packaging industry. China's three major plastic building materials including profiles, tubes and plates have entered a period of steady growth, a number of green building materials began to accelerate the pace of development and to accelerate green building revolution.Some plastic products enterprises,such as the plastic film, HDPE drums,PP/PE moulding and PP bags manufacturers now pay more attention to the new applications for building.

Plastics have the potential to be deployed in all the previously mentioned lightweight construction strategies and to offer innovative solutions for the future. 

Packaging robot provides new opportunities for packaging industry development.

Productivity of food packaging is an important measure of a enterprise, which can greatly reduce the cost of the product,as packaging robot has  characteristics of high speed and efficiency. Packaging automation is the current mainstream of manufacturing industry, and in the process to achieve the overall automation, except for the automatic control system will usher in development opportunities, the main executor of the production line, packing robot will get more opportunities.

Packaging machinery trends to increasingly automatic, as the most competitive technology, robotics technology is available for repeatable, fast, accurate, as well as the dangerous works. Additionally, all of the manufacturers are hoping to find the ways of reducing the production costs. Robot naturally took up this important role, because the robot can not only lead to lower costs, but also bring greater flexibility. Packaging robots are more and more known by enterprises, there will be more people to choose it because of its flexible and reliable advantages, the robot will replace many of the traditional equipments, become an very important role in packaging fields. Robotics applications developed in the packaging industry at a rapid pace from 9.5% to 17.4 % in the past five years, almost double than past. Robots appeared in almost all of the functional areas of packaging, especially in palletizing, packing, and most commonly in pick/place fields.

Packaging robot is mainly used for the automatic weight detection of powder and pellets, development and application of efficient packaging equipment. Weight by the intelligent detection systems, intelligent systems to detect foreign objects, the robot bags, transport robots, robotic palletizing systems, control systems and other components. The products are widely used in food, chemical, pharmaceutical, food, feed, building materials and logistics industries such as automatic metal detection of PP woven bags and PP bags. Compared with traditional products, it has a reduction of 30% materials, 60% footprint area, improved reliability of 300% metering, more flexible and adaptable. Compared with other similar products, packaging robot is high accuracy, high stability, high reliability, high speed, small footprint, adaptability well, and other prominent advantages over the years to solve part of the load cell fails, can not be found that the problem can not be measured.

During the past ten years, the use of robotics in the area of food packaging did increase and new, exciting applications come up very frequently.The standard uses for robots in the food manufacturing environment are in packaging-such as for top loading wrapped articles into cartons,or case-packing, and palletizing, as well as high-speed pick and place applications-and will continue to grow.