包装技术基础课件之一（英文）.ppt

《包装技术基础》 Unit one perspective on packaging 第一单元 透视包装  Lesson 1 A History of Packaging 第1课 包装发展史 What is Packaging? 1. A definition of packaging Packaging is best described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, distribution, storage, retailing, and use of the goods 2. The many things a package might be asked to do - Packaging is a complex, dynamic, scientific, artistic, and controversial business function - Fundamental function of packaging: contain protects/preserves transports informs/sells. What is Packaging? What is Packaging? 3. How packaging changes to meet society’s needs - Packaging is not a recent phenomenon. - Packaging is an activity closely associated with the evolution of society and, can be traced back to human beginnings. - The nature, degree, and amount of packaging at any stage of a society’s growth reflect the needs, cultural patterns, material availability and technology of that society. - A study of packaging’s changing roles and forms over the centuries is a study of the growth of civilization. - Social changes are inevitably reflected in the way we package, deliver and consume goods. What is Packaging? Until the 1950s, motor oil was delivered in bulk to service stations, which in turn measured it into 1-quart glass jars; premeasured oil in metal cans; - Now, milk delivery from glass bottles to a variety of plain and aseptic paper cartons, plastic bottles and flexible bags; - Tomorrow, how oil or milk will be delivered? - environmentally acceptable packaging (minimal waste) - choices of petrochemicals, wood pulp, and metal governed - the way we buy and consume oil or milk - milk delivered in refillable aluminum cans? Primitive Packaging 1.The origins of packaging - We don’t know what the first package was, but we can certainly speculate. - Primitive humans: nomadic hunter/gatherers, lived off the land. Social groupings restricted to family units. - They would have been subject to