Drug packaging's thinking and countermeasures after entering the WTO

The World Trade Organization is an international organization that aims to supervise world trade and promote the liberalization of world trade. With the conclusion of the negotiations between China and the United States, the prospects for China's accession to the WTO have become increasingly clear. The benefits of joining a WTO member to enjoy a multilateral agreement on world trade are obvious. Joining the organization is of great significance to the pharmaceutical packaging industry in a developing country like China. First of all, the export of pharmaceuticals, especially Chinese medicine, will be greatly developed, which will lead to an increase in the packaging of pharmaceuticals. However, the difficulties faced at the same time of growth are also numerous. How to achieve development in the competition after China's accession to the WTO, meet challenges, and compete with the “wolf” is a very important issue for pharmaceutical packaging. At present, how to seize the opportunity and meet the challenges, the author believes that the following work should be done based on the actual situation of China's pharmaceutical packaging.
First, accelerating the ISO9000 series and product quality certification, as soon as possible with the international pharmaceutical packaging market ISO9000 series of standards is an international standard issued by the international standards organization, is a scientific summary of the quality of industrial management experience, has been widely used by countries in the world, Its significance is very significant. Through the implementation of the ISO9000 series of standards and product quality certification, pharmaceutical packaging companies can find an effective way to speed up the transformation of operating mechanisms, strengthen the technical foundation and improve internal management, so that the enterprise market competition and quality awareness has been enhanced. Through the implementation of standards and certification work, guide companies to establish "to meet customer requirements" for business purposes, product-based service quality, competition as a means to the market to be effective business philosophy. Through consistent compliance and certification, the company will continue to effectively control various factors and links that affect product quality and service quality, thus ensuring product quality and service quality. Through the standardization and certification work, the quality awareness and management awareness of all employees of the company have been strengthened, the management responsibilities and work procedures have been clarified, and the management of the enterprise has been changed from “man ruled” to “legal system”. Through the process, business leaders are freed from their busy daily tasks and can focus on key tasks. According to the ISO9000 series of standards, companies conduct internal audits and management reviews once a year, identify problems in a timely manner, and improve them, prompting companies to establish self-improvement and self-development mechanisms. Through consistent standards and certification work, on the one hand, the company has proved to the market that it has the ability to meet customer requirements, provide qualified product quality and service quality, on the other hand, the company's product quality and service quality can indeed be stabilized and improved, which are enhanced The company's competitiveness in the market. Through the compliance and certification work, the management quality of the employees of the company has been comprehensively improved, the awareness of the company's standardized management has been strengthened, and a mechanism for self-discovery, self-improvement, and self-improvement has been established to provide financial, administrative, marketing, and production services for enterprises. Such as a comprehensive scientific management lay a good foundation.
2. After the accession to the WTO, pharmaceutical packaging materials and containers should accelerate the pace of overall development. As China's pharmaceutical packaging starts relatively late, the research and application of new technologies and new materials are far behind the level of developed countries. Therefore, it is necessary to speed up the new model. The application of packaging materials and containers. At present, China has developed into a pharmaceutical packaging enterprise with more than 2,000 pharmaceuticals, capable of producing six categories and more than 30 varieties of pharmaceutical packaging materials and containers, which basically meet the needs of the domestic pharmaceutical industry, with annual sales accounting for sales in the entire pharmaceutical industry. %about. However, pharmaceutical packaging companies are mostly small-scale, low-tech, low-level redundant construction, and the product structure is not reasonable, leading to disorderly market competition, affecting product quality and most companies are unable to carry out new product development and research. In the face of fierce competition in the domestic and foreign markets after China's accession to the WTO, domestic pharmaceutical packaging companies will have polarization, and companies with rapid development will join forces, and small packaging companies will gradually be eliminated. Therefore, joint development of drug packaging companies is the only way after joining the WTO.
1. Accelerate the application of new materials, new processes and plastic containers for pharmaceutical packaging. At present, the domestic oral liquid packaging mostly uses low quality backward glass bottles or low quality plastic bottles. The caps of some products are not completely closed and easy to leak, and most containers do not have measuring scales and matching measuring cups. Inconvenient use, inaccurate dosage. The current introduction of high-quality plastic (PET) as the raw material of the production line is less, far from meeting the needs of the pharmaceutical market, should be based on the introduction or digestion and absorption based on the development of advanced production equipment. After China's accession to the WTO, the use of oral liquid plastic containers will increase significantly, especially with new materials such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or PEN. The size of the container is 100 ml to 200 ml, including protection from light. There are PET bottles with measuring scales or measuring cups, and the dosage has been increased from the current 30% to more than 60% to replace low quality glass bottles. Analysis of the situation of tablets and capsules medicine packaging containers: After China's accession to the WTO, the packaging of plastic containers for western medicine tablets, especially antipyretic and analgesic drugs, will be affected by changes in the pharmaceutical sales market, and traditional Chinese medicine pills will be affected. The space for the expansion of plastic containers for pharmaceuticals such as pharmaceuticals, capsules, pills, powders, etc. to expand abroad will grow. It is a good opportunity and opportunity for pharmaceutical plastic packaging companies to develop vigorously. Therefore, we should seize the powerful opportunity to focus on the development of traditional Chinese medicine plastic containers, such as high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP) and PET, PEN bottles, and use the injection blow molding process to produce medicinal plastic bottles. The mouth of the bottle is sealed by electromagnetic induction with an aluminum foil gasket to ensure the sealing performance and safety of the bottle mouth, and the drug packaging containers with the yellow glass bottle sealing wax process are eliminated.
2. Accelerate the application of medical flexible packaging materials. According to the report from the Flexible Packaging Assn, USA: “The pharmaceutical packaging market is the second economic growth point for flexible packaging in the next five years. In addition to the strong momentum of its own medical development, it can control the dosage of thermoforming and extrusion blister. The packaging of bulk-packed or bottled medicines will grow." At present, China's flexible packaging materials in the development of pharmaceutical packaging has a good momentum of development, the current pharmaceutical aluminum foil blister packaging, in addition to the development of multi-color aluminum foil packaging printing process, but also should speed up the development of blister packaging materials plastic hard film, such as PVC  PVDC塑料PE, PVDC, OPP, PE, and other composite hard plastic packaging materials with excellent light protection performance, promote the use of traditional Chinese medicine granules, powders, powders and plastic flexible packaging composite packaging.
There are mainly the following varieties:
1 Biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film has good transparency, heat resistance, and barrier properties. It is used in the outer layer of pharmaceutical compound bags and it is compounded with LDPE, EVA, PVDC, or aluminum foil with good heat sealing properties. Improve the stiffness and physical and mechanical properties of composite membranes. If a PVDC with good moisture barrier property is coated on the BOPP base film, its moisture proof performance can be greatly improved.
2 cast polypropylene film (CPP): It has a good heat sealability, and is mostly used in the inner layer of composite bags, and can be vacuum-plated with aluminum and then compounded with BOPP, PET, OPA, PE, etc.
3 Polyester film (PET): The biaxially stretched polyester film has extremely high mechanical strength and rigidity, extremely high heat resistance, excellent chemical resistance, excellent transparency and gloss, moisture and oxygen permeability. Smaller, with particularly good taste protection. This is unmatched by all other films.
4 Polyvinylidene Chloride Film (PVDC): It is the best film with good barrier properties, unlike the PVC or eval, which is affected by humidity changes. It has good transparency and good heat and cold resistance. PVDC emulsion can be used as a moisture-proof coating for polypropylene film. PET or OPP coated with it has good moisture barrier performance and improves the safety performance of pharmaceutical packaging.
5 Aluminized film: Vacuum aluminized film is a kind of film that deposits aluminum vapor deposition on various base films under high vacuum state. At present, vacuum-plated aluminum films such as PET, CPP, PVC, OPP, and PE are widely used, among which vacuum-plated aluminum films of PET, CPP, and PE are widely used. In addition to the characteristics of the original base film, the features of the vacuum aluminum coating also have beautiful decorative properties and better barrier properties, especially after the various substrates have been plated with aluminum, the light transmittance, oxygen permeability, and moisture permeability. All of them have been reduced by several tens or hundreds of times. After joining the WTO, they can be used as a good material for the packaging of pharmaceuticals. It is one of the most important materials for future development. (White Ice) (From "China Packaging News")