In K2016, WM Company summarized the general trend of the thin-wall packaging market. The market demands more personalized packaging solutions with unique shapes, sizes and colors to provide more diverse and personalized food packaging products. At the same time, the demand for recycled and compostable materials continues to grow.

   As a machine manufacturer, it is important to maintain long-term contact with our suppliers, processors, operating companies and distributors, as they all play an important role in shaping new trends in the packaging industry. In order to successfully gather all market information, a team of 6 regional managers of WM Thermoforming works daily with 30 agencies located in 56 regions.
    In K2016, WM Company summarized the thin-wall packaging market

Overall trend: The market demands more personalized packaging solutions with unique shapes, sizes and colors, which can provide more diverse and personalized food packaging products. At the same time, the demand for recycled and compostable materials continues to grow. The development of thermoforming technology is witnessing these market trends.
   The food industry in particular needs containers with high transparency, which can better show the characteristics of the finished product.
- Raw materials: Over the past few years, material applications have been constantly changing, and the demand for polypropylene materials has increased significantly.
- Machinery: highly automated machines that can operate faster and at a lower cost.
- Distribution: The largest businesses are getting bigger through acquisitions, while niche distributors need to adjust their strategies to stay competitive.
Operations: Companies in the food service industry develop their product features by offering sustainable products and new menus to meet the needs of changing demographics and consumer habits.
WM has always used its technology to meet the requirements of its customers by:
- High packaging transparency. WM's in-line extrusion and thermoforming guarantees high PP transparency.
- More anti-counterfeiting solutions. WM Company has contributed to the success of several projects in cooperation with mold manufacturers, thus meeting the needs of customers.
- Online labeling and identification system. WM Company delivered several machines with integrated labeling and identification systems.
- Partial packaging instead of large containers, and reduced beverage sizes. WM's new stacking system is capable of stacking, counting, bagging and automating the production of extremely complex shapes.
- The machine is flexible and can produce medium and small batches of products to meet the growing demand for customization and reduced product packaging requirements:
- The use of fillers or foams to reduce resin costs, especially the replacement of EPS, PS, OPS, PET with PP materials, which can increase the number of products due to low density.
- Lower energy consumption: regenerative feeding systems, new technologies for heating elements, improved to comply with European Directive EuP2005/32/EC(Eco-design of energy-consuming products).
- Reduce labor costs: The system is fully automatic.
- Continuous processing, speed up efficiency, reduce the ratio of capital cost to labor cost.