Green Design Strategy II of health beer packaging

Green design strategy of health beer packaging II

3 development strategy of green packaging of health beer

green packaging of health beer has a good development prospect. In the future, it should be noted that the elongation of polymer materials is much better than that of metal, fiber, wood, plate and other materials

3.1 packaging materials should not only meet the requirements of green packaging, but also adapt to the characteristics of beer products.

green packaging materials for food can be roughly divided into four categories: degradable materials (such as polyketone materials), edible materials (such as soybean protein packaging film), recyclable materials, and paper materials. In the green packaging of beer, recyclable materials are mainly used at present. Although paper materials are used in the packaging of sake and wine in Japan,

can not be used in beer packaging because the gas barrier is not up to standard. Compared with other alcoholic or liquid drinks, beer is a "delicate" drink. It has low alcohol content, rich nutrition and rich in C02. Therefore, it is afraid of cold, heat, light, oxygen, air leakage and shock. It is precisely because of the "delicate spirit" of beer that the research, development and innovation of new beer packaging materials and new containers have made slow progress. It was not until the end of the last century that recycled plastic materials such as pet and pen emerged in the green packaging of beer

the emerging PET bottle has many advantages: 1) the density is only 1/18 ~ 1/8 of that of glass bottle, so it is easy to carry and the transportation cost is low; 2) High impact resistance, compressive strength and crack resistance; 3) High transparency and cleanliness; 4) The C02, O2,

water and flavor barrier properties of modified PET bottles are equal to or better than those of glass bottles. Therefore, once PET beer bottle is launched, it has attracted the attention of all countries. However, pure PET bottles also have some shortcomings (such as high oxygen permeability). In view of this, people began to improve PET bottles, such as barrier coating PET bottles, processing multi-layer composite PET bottles with barrier layers, etc. These measures have achieved good improvement results. In 1998, the PET/amosorb3000/Pet three-layer bottle (amosorb3000 is an oxygen absorbing copolymer) developed by American amcorpet company began to be used for canning Budweiser beer

pen replaces the benzene ring of pet with naphthalene ring, so it has better mechanical properties and chemical resistance. 1 it must be treated in time. It is particularly commendable that the C02 and O2 barrier of pen is times that of pet. So pen is considered to be the most suitable material for green packaging of beer. However, pen and modified PET still have some problems: 1) high cost; 2) Some properties need to be improved. For example, the problem of residual fragrance or peculiar smell of modified PET has not been solved. All these need to be studied and improved in the future work

3.2 the packaging design must consider the characteristics of health beer

there are many kinds of health beer, and the health ingredients are also diverse. In the green packaging of health beer, not only the characteristics of beer, but also the characteristics of various health ingredients should be considered. It is not only required that the packaging materials should not react with the health ingredients, but also that the packaging design should have the storage of the health ingredients. For example, tea polyphenols, the active ingredient in tea beer, are easy to polymerize with O2 under pH 8 and light conditions, and can react with iron to form a green black complex. Therefore, in the process of tea and beer packaging, we must fully consider the O2 impermeability of the packaging container and strictly avoid iron pollution. For another example, riboflavin is easy to photolysis, so the health beer with riboflavin as the health ingredient must pay attention to the design of avoiding light when packaging

3.3 in addition to selecting green packaging materials, attention should also be paid to green transportation, green equipment, green management and green process.

in essence, green packaging is a production mode that first considers sustainable development in the life cycle of packaging products. In the process of health beer packaging, green should run through all links of packaging. For example, while selecting pet green materials, someone investigated the noise of PET beer bottles when they were filled with beer, and finally proved that PET beer bottles would not produce noise pollution

3.4 pay attention to visual communication design

pet and pen bottles have better appearance texture and decoration printing performance than glass bottles, which provides a superior visual communication design platform for health beer to place the friction head in the middle of its green packaging. In the packaging design of health beer, we should fully consider the characteristics of green packaging materials, such as texture, color, texture, physical and chemical properties, combine artistic thinking with scientific and technological thinking, combine the times with national characteristics, and combine stylization with personalization, so as to finally create a unique packaging design. Designers can develop visual communication works in line with the consumption psychology of the relevant groups according to the visual perception of the applicable groups of health beer. For example, for low alcohol beer with young people (especially women) as the main consumers, the packaging design with lively shape, bright color, high lightness and purity will more easily stimulate their consumption desire

it is worth pointing out that for health beer with strong national characteristics (such as bitter gourd beer), it is helpful to create visual communication works with Chinese characteristics by drawing nutrition from the long history of national culture in China. For example, designers can absorb the essence of plastic arts from ceramics, bronze mirrors, tripods, shadow puppets and other artifacts, appreciate the style of fonts from cultural heritages such as French calligraphy, cliff stone carvings, bronze inscriptions, seals and other cultural heritages, and understand the mystery of color from handicrafts such as Chinese painting, embroidery, cloisonne, murals, and then temper and sublimate them to finally create a health beer packaging design with strong cultural heritage

4 conclusion

the development of modern civilization has made people pay more attention to nutrition and health care, ecological balance and environmental protection. This creates a potential development space for the green packaging of health beer. Health beer is in the ascendant. The development of green packaging of health beer is not only conducive to seizing the first opportunity in the green packaging market of health beer, but also of great strategic significance to the development of the whole beer industry and packaging industry in China. At present, while the development of health beer, we must step up the research and development of green packaging design, so as to make the green packaging of health beer in China step up to a new level

(text/chentianhua, zhanghuafeng, Hebei University of science and Technology)

packaging engineering