2 , Packaging design beginners are required to read— packaging materials

Packaging material is the material basis of commodity packaging, plays an important role. According to the different standards, the packaging material can be divided into different types. This tutorial will introduce the different packaging materials according to the classification of the materials. Hope to help people have more comprehensive understanding of packaging.

1,The wooden packaging material
Wooden materials are widely used, this is because the wood has a wide distribution, is a light and high strength material, has certain elasticity, can withstand the impulse and vibration, and it is easy for processing, etc.

However, the organizational structure of the wooden packaging material is uneven, vulnerable to the influence of the environment and is easy to deform, and has the disadvantages such as easy to decay and flammable.

 Note: the above shortcomings can be eliminated or reduced through proper treatments.

2, Paper materials
Paper materials occupy the position of the first material in packaging material, this is because paper has a unique advantage. Paper has not only easy to do mass production, but also has the advantage of low price. At the same time, it also can be recycled, no environmental pollution.

   Paper has certain elasticity and folding performance is also very good , with good printing performance, handwriting, design clear and firm. Therefore, the paper material get more and more attention.

 Paper can be classified according to different standards.

     In the following. According to different features of the paper, paper can be divided into two categories, functional protective wrapping paper and packaging decoration paper. Functional protective wrapping paper, such as tenacity strong kraft paper, corrugated paper, transparent cellophane,sulfuric acid paper and so on.

 Packaging decoration paper, is a kind of paper that is suitable for printing. Such as coated paper has high smoothness and whiteness, widely used in the packaging of goods, such as senior candy packaging, food, cigarettes and others for daily use.

 In addition to the coated paper, packaging decoration paper also include offset paper and adhesive paper, etc., here will not do too much explanation.

3, Plastic packaging material

 Plastic packaging refers to all kinds of plastic as the raw material for packaging.

 Plastic packaging materials which has good transparency, light weight, easy forming, good waterproof performance, can ensure that packaging is health, etc.

However, plastic packaging materials are easily electrostatic, poor permeability, high cost of recycling, waste management difficult, easy to cause pollution to the environment.

  Note: some plastic material containing toxic additives, when do the application, you should take necessary measures to reduce or avoid the damage.
4, Metal packaging materials
 Metal packaging refers to packaging containers made from a variety of black sheet metal, tin, such as steel and steel plates, and aluminum foil, aluminum alloy. Such as metal barrels, metal boxes, cans.

Metal container from the temporary storage of built-in objects evolved into today’s food cans, beverage container, etc., has gradually become the means of long-term preservation built-in objects.

  Metal packaging material not only has high strength, and is easy to store, carry, transport , but also has good resistance, moisture resistance, suitable for food, drink, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and other packagings.

At the same time, the metal materials with special metallic luster, easy for printing decoration, is advantageous for the appearance of commodity packaging design.

Note: metal materials is with low chemical stability, easy to rust, even a small amount of metal materials are likely to affect the quality of the food.

5, Glass Packing material
 Glass packaging material with good chemical stability, can guarantee the purity of food and health, and has airtight, easy to seal, flexible modeling, colorful crystal adornment effect, so has been widely used.

Note: the glass has low resistance to impact, high energy consumption of glass melting such shortcomings.

    There are many different kinds of glass packaging container, and according to different standards, the classification is also different. According to the color can be divided into colorless and transparent, colored and opaque cloudy glass bottle; According to the purpose can be divided into food packaging bottle, beverage bottle, wine bottle, etc.

6, Ceramic packaging materials
Ceramic packaging refers to all kinds of plastic as the raw material of packaging. Ceramic according to different materials can be divided into coarse pottery, pottery and porcelain, stoneware.

Ceramic packing material has high hardness, and has corrosion resistance performance to high temperature, water and other chemical mediums. Different prices have different requirements on the performance of the ceramic commodity packaging for ceramics,as for senior drinking wine Maotai, packaging requirements are higher.

Tip: ceramic packaging material is fragile, and recycling cost is high such disadvantages.

The Origin and Development of Packaging Design

With the improvement of productivity, the progress of science and technology and the development of culture and art, packaging has experienced a long evolution process. The following summarizes the four different stages of development of packaging design.

(1)Primitive packing
During this period ,packaging material is mainly adopted by using plants and animals or fur such natural materials, such as shells, leaves. The following diagram, using bamboo, plant leaf packaging items, give a person a kind of natural guileless.

 

Tip: packing of this phase is not a real one, but is the germination of packaging.

(2) Packaging in ancient time
During this period, people began to imitate the shape of natural objects by hand , using plants branches to woven basket, mat and other packaging items. Ceramics are also beginning to apply in the field of packaging, such as Chinese traditional wine packaging, use porcelain JiuTan collocation bright red label, formed a characteristic.

      Tip: during this period, packaging has adopted the transparent, breathable, moisture and other technologies.

(3)The modern packaging period
With the development of industrial technology, packaging has entered a new stage of development. The artificial material is came into being in packaging materials such as plastic, glass, steel, etc. Packaging of this period, paid more attention to visual aesthetic feeling.Thus ,there were rich design forms.

(4)The period of modern packaging
Packaging materials and containers have been further developed during this period. The emergence of the brand and corporate identification system, make the packaging design is no longer isolated in the traditional sense, but an important part of the enterprise promotion plan. This period appeared a serials of packaging design, in the design should not only to ensure unity of the visual image, but also to keep certain changes in space.

(5)The post-modern packaging design
The characteristics of the packaging design during this period, mainly embodies two aspects:

       On the one hand is to design the local characteristics, mainly shown in national culture’s personality. Japanese packaging design made a full use of their national symbols and a large number of calligraphy, regional characteristic is very strong.

On the other hand, make design is the humanization design, the main body, around people’s thoughts, emotions, personalities, and demands for function to re-examine, restructure, redefine and to make it more humane significance. For consumers, humanized designs are more “friendly” and “kind”.

Packaging Design Beginners’ Requirements

 1— To know packaging

 In daily life, we often come into contact with all sorts of goods. Observe the packaging of goods is the beginning of knowing commodity. That means, the stand or fall of in the process of product sales, packaging design plays a vital role. This tutorial introduced the knowledge about packaging design, first of all, — what is packing.

(1) The concept of packing
Protect products in the process of circulation, not only convenient for storage and transportation, but also good for promoting sales.

At the same time, packing is also the overall name refers to use the container , materials and AIDS in a certain technical method

(2) The functions of packaging
Packaging has become an important part of the product, has important function in the product, can be divided into the following three aspects:

protection function
Protection function is the most basic function of packaging. Protection function can protect the goods in transit, not easy to cause loss in quality and quantity;

 

At the same time, the packaging can also help prevent external environment from damaging packing materials. Packaging of lining and the design of the diaphragm, for example, is to prevent some vulnerable items is shaken and extrusion in the process of circulation.

Convenience function
Packaging can have the convenience function. Scientific packaging is more conducive to use. Some of the food packaging, for example, to facilitate the open and add the sawtooth design.

      Good packing also considers whether it is facilitating people to transport or use space effectively. Whether it is reasonable to arrange commodity packaging, convenient split, assembly, etc.

The function of improving the overall image
Packaging can increase the overall image of the goods, can directly stimulate the consumers’ desire to buy, make it produce purchasing behavior; Also played a propaganda effect to promote sales.

The future of packaging design

      Mentioned the packaging design in the future, a lot of people have positive attitudes. Indeed, the development trend of packaging design must be a good thing, with the progress of the society, people’s demand for commodities not only embodied in the commodity function itself, also reflected in the packaging design and other aspects. But the future is bright, the road is tortuous, the competition of packaging design is also growing.

Since reform and open up for more than 30 years, the packaging has realized the rapid development of our country, according to incomplete statistics, China’s packaging industry in 2008 has reached 860 billion yuan. In food packaging, for example, the 2009 Asian packaged food sales reached 132 million tons. With the high-speed growth of domestic food processing and expansion of the growing middle class, food consumer claims are also growing, quality and hygiene requirements are also improved.

The huge market opportunities are destined to have too many competitors, enterprises should improve their profitability by implementing brand strategy, differentiating themselves. Packaging industry is closely related to various sectors of industry, at present, China’s packaging industry is having more and more complete varieties, categories, and also has a group of world class packaging leading enterprises, so the development of packaging enterprises to achieve breakthrough, the key depends on packaging enterprise technical innovation strength and level of ascension, in addition to research and development of packaging materials, development of large complete sets of equipment manufacturing, widely green packaging, the packaging design has become an important link that cannot be ignored.

At first glance, the packaging materials on the market is multifarious, and the design of all kinds of goods also vary widely. Health care products, for example, all kinds of cosmetics packaging are everywhere that is carefully designed, this also wants to lead consumers to easily see its appearance, and less care for its internal components.

Excessive packaging, in the final analysis is marketing, and the future trend of packaging design, will be the stage of “emphasis on green environmental protection”. So, how to grasp the trend of the future packaging design? When it comes to packaging design, it includes the many concepts,culture, convenient to carry, and so on.

Here mainly talk about the following points: one is the sustainable packaging design; one is the safety packaging design; one is the personalized design; another is security design.

1, individualization.

Personalized packaging design is a kind of design method involved extensive and influential, both have great relevance and influence for corporate image and product itself and social effect. The shape of packaging image and performance to the natural and lively modeling of humanity, organic development, giving the packing personality quality, unique style to attract consumers. The design must be systematic thinking, the analysis of the actual situation for different angles and position, all kinds of factors should be considered. Such barrel shape of “barrels of wine”, the use of local folk opera masks goalkeeper modeling of “peace”, use smile because of “smile”… Bionic design individuation, such as its novel design , distinct personality, visual effect is very strong! In a wide variety of commodity packaging shelves is easy to cause the consumer’s interest, accepted by consumers.

2, Sustainability.

The 21st century is the century of environmental protection, modern packaging put forward the concept of green design will also continue to continuation of the 80 s and 90 s of the 20th century in a long period of time. The rapid development of economy, speed up the damage to the natural ecological environment; The improvement of people’s living standards, a variety of solid packaging waste increased with people’s increasing demand for commodities. Environment problem is increasingly prominent, people are committed to research new packing materials and environmental protection design method to reduce solid waste with environmental problems. Innovation in packaging materials like: used for heat insulation, shock proof and easy rotten pulp molding packaging materials; On the design to reduce the material used for packaging, the latter is not easy to decompose, try to use light quality, small volume, easy to crush, easy separation materials.

3, Security.

According to people’s understanding of packaging, security may be one of the most basic requirements of packaging, one of the earliest origin is also for the protection of inner content packaging, such as simple buffer material leaves, straw, etc. In pharmaceutical packaging, for example, foreign drugs packaging attaches great importance to children’s safety, so in drug design, packaging design will often consider the impact on children’s safety. Company recently developed a kind of “pieces” of drug packaging, the packaging on the box open mode tangent, open cartons need certain strength, so it is very easy to open the way for adults, but there is a great difficulty for children, thus effectively avoid mistaking by children. Because of this, once opened the box, it is difficult to restore, so to a certain extent, have played an important role of guard against theft, truly integrating protection and security.

4, Anti-counterfeiting.

The rapid development of modern science and technology , general anti-counterfeiting technology for counterfeiters have produced no effect.Strengthen the visual effects of packaging design and strengthen the packaging printing industry technology have become a powerful weapon in the rights action. We can adopt special texture in the packaging design for paint and packing paper, specific technology such as holographic image, quality goods inspection seal, bas-relief embossing and so on to have a certain effect, make the fake and inferior commodities due to the high cost of replication or effect is not realistic, retreat.

The innovation methods of packaging design, of high and new technology combining the printing industry, scientific and technological achievements to pursue the penetrating original and unique visual effect is another direction for the sustainable development of packaging industry in the future.

As a young people in a new era, under more social responsibilities, they are the main part of consumers, the social pillar, that will determine the future packaging design market.

How to make a window and portable structure?

Window structure and portable structure of the box, left and right side each has a handle structure,, two lever handles are formed in the opposite direction. After folding and pressing, forming the handle structure. The window structure directly designed on the main body,the window can seal the transparent plastic ,like PE.

The box is mainly used in electronic toy products and food as gifts, or family use. In modern packaging, users often hope to see the packaging shape and appearance of the product first (not buy products before they can see). To make this design structure used more and more.

The purpose of the present invention is to make the most common simple box type use widely by adding window and portable structure.

In order to achieve the purpose, to compare this common box type. There are the advantages of this box type.

      A                    B                                          D

Windowed on the main body, so that transparent plastic can be sealed on the molding box window. We can see the built-in objects, before buying can let consumers to see the inside product, to meet the curiosity of consumers the first time, especially the electronic toys, consumers pay more attention to its appearance.
Window open on the biggest main body, then the area of the window can be bigger, the user’s view is more clear. Common remote control toy planes and cars on the market are big volume, opening a window on the structure can maximize the use of the box space.

 

In general, this kind of folding carton includes main body face, side face, plug cover and shake up and down the wing, and so on. The invention increases the structure 2, lid and handle configuration for the folding, including the top and bottom plane. Under the first controller on the plane and the handle in the opposite direction from the folding clasp each other, upon the completion of the folding, jointly formed the handle directly in the opposite direction carrying structure.

As shown in figure, this structure is the most to the left of the graph structure with 2 D plane (the fourth side) on the hollow out since the generation of cellular structure. With traditional after add holes inside the lacing cellular structure is not the same, the cellular structure is composed of box type folded his, don’t need any ropes and additives, and reduces to a certain extent the box type process, speed up the working efficiency.

Watch the stereogram after molding , basically, the weight of the goods inside the box is hold by face B. Face B directly connected to the left and right faces, so the carrying capacity of the box type can be strengthened at this time, around the tongue have increased lock structure to make it firm and difficult to burst open.

Structure 3 is a lock structure that connects face D and face A . By traditional ways is to use glue to stick together. This structure is improved, and can connect directly, so as to reduce the process and save time.

 

How to design a computer keyboard packaging?

     Share a computer keyboard design packaging to you guys, including vector image and texture.      Packmage box templates can be downloaded.     Open the keyboard templates in Packmage (this is a very standard desktop keyboard)        According to the actual need, input width, length, depth and other parameters. We take: L = 400, W=145, D = 35 (mm),etc., after the completion, we save and can generate the DXF format which is the die cut. It is good for late printing.  

    We post the draft on the template. Aim to good size. Click OK, as shown in figure  

     

Click on the 3D and appreciate your own design.

            

The deep analysis of the semi-automatic end lock structure

    Users with CAD or manual drawing out a semi-automatic end lock structure, like the below end lock structure, you should first have a very clear mind of relationships of the sizes of the bottom main parts details.

      The bottom sizes have close relationships of the main dimensions of the box, and the sizes of the length and width of box and the relationships influence the bottom structure.

　   Length as L, width as W and thickness of the paper is CAL. (the structure described here is L/4 > = W / 3, if L / 4 < W / 3, this structure does not not recommend, on the one hand the paper utilization rate is not high, on the other hand is a load at the bottom is not good enough.)

　   The first part, the relationship between the L,W dimensions and the main bottom sizes:

Y1 = W / 2,
Y2 = Y1 – CAL / 2 ( As long as Y2 is close to Y1 or smaller than Y1, depending on the paper type)

 

X1 = (W – CAL) / 2
X2 = (L – X1 * 2)
The X3 = X2 + CAL
Y3 = W / 4 (roughly equal to the value, can be a little smaller than it, had better not exceed W / 4)
The rest is each corner fillet, will be no more description here.
    The second part,the various deformations:

The first:

      Bottom of the left is enhanced, very strong, the following is a deviation angle: T1 = 30 (c).

 

The second:

      For oblique incision on the left, the right for straight incision, T2 = 5 is an offset angle, the difference is not big. But the left side molding is more convenient.

The third:

       Left for bevel, right for right-angle, T3 = 30 is a deviation angle, if coupled with the first enhanced one on the left side of the end-lock structure, the bottom of the box will buckle more tightly. But the buckle will be a little trouble.

 

Fourth: position change

       In terms of a single box type structure, this change basically means nothing, but sometimes in order to meet the demands of layout, in order to improve the utilization rate of the paper, will be carried out in this end-lock structure. Then step and repeat.

       This paper utilization rate is increased obviously in this end lock structure.

        Finally, when the L value is too large, and the goods in the box is rather heavy (common fruit box), we can make the structure become polygonal to bear more load. This kind of end -lock structure is relatively complex, will be analyzed separately in a later article .
　　

Common sense of the carton packaging

In the various types of packaging materials such as paper, metal, glass, plastic, wood, composite materials, paper is used in various fields because of its unique environmental advantages, light weight, and low cost of transportation .

Environmental symbols are printed on a lot of cartons now.

   

  1, From packaging function of the carton, mainly has containing，protection, convenience, show, display, and environmental friendliness.

（1）Containing

Containing products rely on packaging. Products are solid,or liquid. And size and quantity is different. In structural design, should give full consideration to the packing containing function, must be able to contain the required number. Such as big bottles of candy, should be able to contain specified number, this containing function should consider not only contain stipulated number of products, but also have extra appropriate space. And like a bottle of coke and other drinks, should have a certain space, avoiding rupture under bottle pressure during the flow.

(2) Protection

The prime function of food packaging is to protect the goods, which mainly are done by structure design. Food production come out, after going through a series of circulation channel (loading and unloading, transportation, storage, etc.) to reach consumers’ hands, because of the climate conditions, pest, warehousing and distribution of all kinds of the effect of external force, will bring different degree of damage to products. Structural design ’s purpose is for these disadvantage factors, take technical measures to protect both the protection of the goods and the protection of packaging itself.

Generally speaking,main considerations of the structure design are: its load, stress, vibration, drop performance aspects of mechanics, considering whether to conform to the protection of food science, such as moisture, rust, mould-proof, pollution prevention, anti theft, etc. What kind of structure, combined with what material to make the product packaging can safely reach consumers’ hands. Because the commodity is extremely wide range, have different character, different food packaging’s structure may vary greatly, such as holding a wine glass bottle and other fragile products, mainly considering the brace; The puffed food, mainly considering moisture; The coke carbonated drinks, is gas blocking, etc.

(3) Convenience

Good packaging should have a wide range of convenience, it also needs the structure design to implementation. Convenient functions generally includes packing convenient, convenient transportation, loading and unloading, stacking, convenient storage, sales, and convenient to carry, convenient use, convenient processing, etc. In the structural design, considering the actual needs of consumers. Convenient function of packaging to the product sales will have a huge impact, should be seriously considered in design. If the cover is difficult to open such as canned food can make consumers away, bottled liquid filling if the bottle is too small is not convenient and use, etc.

(4). Display

Food packaging must have obvious distinctiveness, make consumers a strong visual impact by its own remarkable characteristics in a wide variety of display shelves .

(5) Display

The packing must be on the premise of fully showing, to make product a the good display effect, or has the ideal appeal, to entice consumers making buying decision on the spot , or leave a deep impression for the future buying.

(6) The environment friendly

 

2， In the objective aspects are in science and technology

(1) Scientific

Mainly refers to the choice of materials and the design of the structure can preserve and protect goods well, can effectively cooperate the circulation such as transportation, storage, loading and unloading operations; Make consumers to use, carry, save more conveniently, etc. In addition, whether the packing material will damage the environment, and recycle is also very important. Packaging industry is a scientific and systematic engineering, packaging design must also take each link of science into account , it also reflects the characteristic of the combination of art and science.

(2) Technology

At present, for China’s export enterprises, the export performance of 20% companies will be affected because of packing problem, how to improve the quality of product packaging, meet the demand of the international packaging? This requires that companies to use the best, most money-saving packaging design software.  

3, From the content of the design, main consideration are the relationships between packaging and commodities, packaging and environment, packing with consumers, and the internal structural elements.

(1) Packaging and commodities

Packaging determines whether the commodity can be a brand, sets up the commodity brand image, good packaging can give consumers the spirit to enjoy in addition to the substance. After using, the consumer’s feelings must be combined with brand and packaging.

(2) Packaging and environment

In the context of sustainable development, packaging should be designed to be able to recycle, save raw materials as well as not to cause environmental pollution.

(3) Packing with consumers

Good packaging can give consumers a deep and unforgettable impression, will entice consumers to buy, bring popularity to products.

(4) The internal structural elements

The packaging structure performance will directly affect the strength, stiffness, stability and practicability of the package.

Packaging design— software drives innovation

       According to the latest news of World Packaging Organization (WPO ), the global packaging industry has valued more than $500 billion, and ranks among world’s top ten big industry, packaging industry is a industry full of development prospect.

       However, packaging design is a tedious process. For the most common carton packing design, the workload is heavy. Choosing conventional CAD softwares as design tools, a skilled staff can draw 10 ~ 20 packaging structure a day.

      For a design company, introducing a box template software which put graphic technology, database technology and 3D animation technology as a whole, can reduce a lot of manpower, material resources.

       Nowadays, design company become more and more thirsty for automatical box type structure drawing, 3D proofing, expand picture and 3D folding box. In order to improve the packaging design process, shorten the design and manufacture cycle, reduce the cost of repeated proofing, digitalize the whole packaging pre-press industry, the market badly needs a powerful, easily-operated box template design software.

       Packmage — a box template design software listed in 2009. Just like ePack, their software designs both based on a box template library, namely the module library. On the operation, first to choose a practical box is also needed. And the big difference between Packmage and ePack is that ePack repository is “parts”, Packmage repository is “whole”. Thus,compared to ePack, it can greatly reduce the possible problems in the process of box design, but on the other hand, it also reduced the flexibility of box type design, designers’ reliance on box type library increased, which requires Packmage should have a huge “library”, for the different needs of users.

         It has a mighty box template structure design, 3D animation display box and other functions. The box template library accommodates more than 400 new box templates, it is widely used in food, clothing and other industries, especially cigarette and wine.Besides, the users can also deposit their own design into the box template library, makes the number expand continuously. Its box template management including: box template parametric design, box template texture, 3 D display, data storage. Here is a simple introduction of this software.

        Parametric design of box template: Packmage provide standardized box template structure, the users input several main parameters can have box template structure design done. Main parameters is the main factors of structure and sizes of each part of the expand picture t (such as length, width, depth , thickness, and pallet height,etc.). After the parametric design, a box structure is out of their own. In addition,remember to deposit it into box template library.

  　　Packmage considered the complexity of users’ packaging design environment, the design result supports a variety of formats of many design softwares, modified box type files can be saved as WMF and SCR formats. Customers can view BMP, JPG and GIF these three formats. And what’s more, Packmage can combine the step and repeat software on the PC platform, the graphics software and the CAD softwares (such as FreeHand, Illustrator, AutoCAD, CorelDraw, etc.), to have pre-press and post-press work done.

  　　Box template texture and 3D display function: texture can be post onto the box template structure, and can also paste many images onto each side of the box template structure; Can also more image respectively paste box type on each face (which accords with the design habits of some designers).

  　　If there is no texture function, we say it soft. Box template structure with texture is especially true and vivid in the 3D display. 3D animation function can simulate the process while folding box template, 3D effect will be very obvious, users can also check their own designs in the process of 3D animation, 3D can record into video, too.

  　　In this way, can significantly improve the efficiency when have communications with customers, and reduce costs directly while checking 3D blank sample, 3D color sample and animation of molding process by Internet. Do not poof the object until customers achieve highly consistent with Packmage – rather than proof repeatedly with a lot of money and time.

  　　As for packaging design software, foreign countries developed more mature than home. What are the relatively popular softwares in the market now? The answers are the ArtiosCAD of Esko-Graphics, the ImpactCAD of Ardensoftware, CIMPACK of Cimex Corp company, BOX – VELLUM, Kasemake of British AG/CAD company these packaging design software.

  　　Among these packaging design softwares, the most out-standing is ArtiosCAD which overturns the traditional packaging structure design. It takes the form of digital, simulate packaging structure design and 3D folding effect on the computer. As for my personal experience, it is a very powerful packaging structure design software, on the basis of a box template library, can according to the needs to adjust the parts, or even redesign. However, it is so expensive.

       Looking forward to Packmage!

       Look forward to industry innovation!

 

What are the considerations for packaging design?

Packaging design shall follow the principles of appropriate, reliable, beautiful and economic. Due to the wide variety of goods, different performance and various requirement , therefore, the problems in the product packaging design should be considered respectively. Generally, the following items should be paid attention to:

    1,The performance of the packaged product

      The performance of the packaged product: mainly includes the state , appearance, strength, weight, structure, value, risk of the product and so on.This is the first problem should be considered for packaging design.

1) State of product: Mainly includes solid, liquid, gas, mixing, etc., the different states may have the different container.

2) Product shape. Mainly has square, cylindrical, polygon, etc., the packing should design packaging according to the product shape, and should fulfill small volume, fixed and good storage stability, conform to standardization requirements.

3) Product strength: For low intensity and easily-damaged products, consider the protective performance of the packaging fully , and have obvious mark on the outside of the packaging.

4)Product weight: Heavy weight for a product, should pay special attention to the strength of the packaging, ensure that it is far away from being damaged during transportation.

5)Product structure: Different products, often structured differently. Some is not anti-pressure, some is fear of striking. Only have a full understanding of the structures of products,can you have the right packaging design.

6) Product value: Different products have different values. So you should consider mainly to high value.

7)  Product risk: For inflammable, explosive, toxic and other dangerous products, to ensure safety, due attention and specific mark should be printed outside the package.

2, The environment influence over products

       Products in the process of circulation, will encounter different environments, they will produce different influence on packing. Therefore, corresponding measures should be taken.

1)The weather conditions. Mainly include air, temperature, humidity, rain and snow, and air, etc., which have different effects of different products. Thus different meteorological conditions should be taken into consideration respectively.

2)Loading and unloading conditions. In this condition, you should consider it is to be done by manual , machinery. And the numbers of loading and unloading.

3)Transport conditions. In the process of transportation, products will be subjected to shock, vibration, etc, and different means of transport have different impact on the packaging . Main products should be considered for fixing and buffering.

4) Storage conditions. Storage generally use stacking, packaging should examine its compressed strength. In addition, storage has indoor and outdoor storages, the former should notice moisture-proof, mould proof, waterproof, etc; The latter also should pay attention to guard against rain and snow, sun, wind, etc.

　    3,The packing ways

     The choice of the packing ways is very important to protect product, only have a comprehensive understanding of product performance and flow conditions, develop several alternatives, and make economic evaluation, can you find the right packing ways.

1)Choose packaging materials. According to the product performance, to select the corresponding packaging materials, make packaging containers, choose the appropriate auxiliary packaging materials of packaging products at the same time.

 2) Select packing methods. According to the requirements of the strength of the product protection, mechanical loading and unloading and transportation, to choose appropriate packaging technology and packaging methods.