As a packaging material with excellent performance, aluminum foil has a long history of development in Europe, North America, Japan and other regions and countries, and has been widely used.In recent years, people have renewed their understanding of the green and environmental protection characteristics of aluminum foil packaging.In order to vigorously promote the application of the aluminum foil packing worldwide, led by the European aluminium association in January 2011, the international association of aluminium as well as from Brazil, China, Europe (including Russia and Turkey), Japan, South Africa, South Korea and the United States aluminum foil production enterprises to participate in the "high quality aluminum foil, global sharing: global aluminum foil information transmission project" official start, the project of the aluminum foil packing through web sites, print the advantage of the publicity.In January 2015, the major participants decided to transform the project into a formal association organization, the Global Aluminium Foil Roller Initiative.

Currently, the Global Aluminum Foil Manufacturers Initiative has 46 member companies, including aluminum foil and aluminum foil packaging products manufacturers from 25 countries around the world, as well as five aluminum foil industry suppliers and industry organizations.Its purpose is to "coordinate actions on sustainable development of aluminum foil to drive growth of the aluminum foil market and promote innovative development of the industry".

As the world's largest producer of aluminum foil, the application of aluminum foil in the field of packaging containers is still at a low level, so it is considered to be the world's most potential growth market in the future.