With the vigorous development of the catering takeaway industry, packaging is not only a carrier for food but also a key link affecting users’ consumption experience. Driven by the “plastic ban” and the deepening of environmental protection concepts, pulp molding packaging, with its advantages of degradability, leak-proof, and strong buffering, has gradually replaced traditional plastic packaging and become a new choice in the catering takeaway market. However, the mass production of high-quality pulp molding packaging relies on efficient and precise pulp molding equipment. As a leading equipment manufacturer in the industry, Guangzhou Nanya Pulp Molding Equipment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Guangzhou Nanya”) provides a full-process solution from “pulp” to “finished product” for catering packaging enterprises with its customized fully automatic pulp molding tableware production lines and core equipment, helping to improve the quality and user experience of pulp molding packaging.
The User Experience Advantages of Pulp Molding Packaging Come from Precise Equipment Manufacturing
Users’ core demands for catering takeaway packaging focus on four dimensions: “leak-proof, heat preservation, portability, and environmental protection”. The realization of these demands depends on the process precision of pulp molding equipment from the source. Guangzhou Nanya has been deeply engaged in the pulp molding equipment field for many years, and has developed a series of core equipment for the characteristics of catering packaging:
- Intelligent Pulp Molding Machine: Adopting vacuum adsorption molding technology, combined with customized pulp molding molds (such as special molds for lunch boxes, soup bowls, and cup lids), it can accurately control the uniformity of packaging wall thickness (deviation ≤ 0.1mm), avoiding leakage caused by uneven wall thickness. At the same time, the equipment supports multi-cavity mold design (2-6 lunch boxes can be produced per mold), with a production capacity of 1200-1800 pieces per hour, meeting the “large batch and fast delivery” needs of catering packaging.
- Pulp Molding Hot-Pressing Machine: Through a segmented temperature control system, it accurately heats and shapes the formed wet blanks. This not only makes the packaging surface smooth and burr-free (improving the hand-held feel) but also enhances the material density to improve waterproof and oil-proof performance. The pulp molding lunch boxes produced by Guangzhou Nanya’s equipment can hold soup above 65℃ for 3 hours without leakage, fully adapting to the takeaway scenario.
- Fully Automatic Pulp Molding Pulping System: In response to the “food contact safety” requirements of catering packaging, the equipment uses food-grade stainless steel materials and is equipped with an intelligent pulp filtering device to ensure no impurities in the pulp. At the same time, it adjusts the pulp concentration in real-time through sensors (stabilized at 3-5%), ensuring consistent strength of each batch of packaging and avoiding deformation caused by too soft materials.
Guangzhou Nanya’s Tableware Production Line: Customization + Automation to Adapt to Diverse Needs of Catering Packaging
In the catering takeaway scenario, packaging forms are diversified according to category differences (such as full-meal lunch boxes, snack trays, and drink cup sleeves), which puts forward higher requirements for the “flexible production capacity” of pulp molding equipment. Guangzhou Nanya’s fully automatic pulp molding tableware production line perfectly adapts to diverse needs through modular design and intelligent control:
- Quick Mold Change Design: The pulp molding molds supporting the production line adopt standardized interfaces, and the mold change time is shortened to less than 30 minutes. For example, switching from producing square lunch boxes to round soup bowls does not require large-scale equipment adjustment, meeting the needs of catering enterprises for “flexible switching of multi-category packaging” and indirectly improving user experience (such as matching exclusive packaging for different categories).
- Full-Process Automation: The production line integrates five links: “pulping – molding – hot pressing – drying – sorting”. Only 2-3 workers are needed to monitor the equipment operation to realize 24-hour continuous production. Among them, the pulp molding drying equipment adopts waste heat recovery technology, which ensures stable packaging moisture content (5-8%, avoiding brittleness due to over-drying and deformation due to over-wetting) while reducing energy consumption by 25% compared with traditional equipment, helping packaging enterprises control costs and launch cost-effective products.
- Food-Grade Process Guarantee: In response to the hygiene requirements of catering packaging, Guangzhou Nanya has added an “ultraviolet sterilization module” and a “dust-free production unit” to the production line. From equipment materials to production environment, it fully complies with the safety standards for food contact packaging (such as FDA, GB 4806.8), making users feel more at ease.
From Equipment to Scenarios: Guangzhou Nanya Helps Packaging Enterprises Improve User Reputation
High-quality pulp molding packaging must ultimately be verified by users’ actual experience. With the technical advantages of pulp molding equipment, Guangzhou Nanya has provided production line solutions for more than 300 catering packaging enterprises at home and abroad, helping them create packaging products favored by users:
- After a domestic chain fast-food brand introduced Guangzhou Nanya’s fully automatic pulp molding tableware production line, the launched pulp molding hamburger boxes not only have good heat preservation (maintaining food temperature for 1.5 hours in a 25℃ environment) but also adopt a foldable design (reducing volume by 60% after folding), which is convenient for users to carry, and the takeaway praise rate increased by 18%.
- An Indian catering packaging enterprise, through Guangzhou Nanya’s customized pulp molding molds and molding machines, produced deep-bottom leak-proof lunch boxes suitable for local curry meals, solving the pain point of “curry leakage polluting handbags” of traditional plastic lunch boxes. After the product was launched, its market share quickly increased to 25%.
Conclusion: Promoting the Upgrade of Catering Packaging Experience with Equipment Technological Innovation
Under the trend of pursuing “quality and environmental protection” in the catering takeaway industry, the improvement of user experience of pulp molding packaging is inseparable from the technical support of pulp molding equipment. As a leading enterprise in the pulp molding equipment field, Guangzhou Nanya will continue to focus on the pain points of catering packaging scenarios, develop more efficient and precise fully automatic pulp molding tableware production lines and core equipment, empower packaging enterprises, and let more environmentally friendly and high-quality pulp molding packaging enter consumers’ lives, helping the catering takeaway industry achieve a “win-win situation of experience and environmental protection”.
Post time: Sep-30-2025