Uflex: The great Indian story
Uflex is the Indian flexible packaging story. A billion dollar company, focused on packaging films and products, providing end-to-end solutions to clients across 140 countries, Uflex products are everywhere.
Headquartered in Noida, Uflex has two other plants in India – in Jammu and Madhya Pradesh, and five plants abroad – UAE, Mexico, Poland, Egypt and the USA.
The manufacturing facilities boast ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and HACCP certifications and its products are approved by FDA a
01 Apr 2016 | By PrintWeek India
Packaging: The eight-colour rotogravure printing machine at Uflex's Packaging Plant in Noida
Packaging: Big bags for packing rice being manufactured at Noida plant
Packaging: The Comexi flexo printing machine at the Noida plant. The machine has the processing speed of 400 metres per minute
Packaging: The state-of-the-art extrusion lamination set up at Noida plant
Holography & Labels: The five-colour Edale printing machine at Uflex’s Holography Business’ manufacturing plant in Noida
Holography & Labels: The nine-colour Gallus printing machine at Uflex’s Noida plant
Films: The state-of-the-art metalliser at Uflex’s packaging film manufacturing plant in Noida
Films: The slitting of metallised film at Noida plant. Uflex has state of the art metallisers with plasma treatment facilities for better metal to film adhesion and superior metal coverage
Films: Bi-axially oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) packaging film being manufactured at Noida
Films: The jumbo roll storage at Uflex’s packaging film plant at Noida
Films: The primary slitter of BOPET line at Uflex’s Noida plant
Cylinder: The automatic electroplating line for rotogravure printing cylinders at Noida
Cylinder: High definition elastomer flexo sleeve and polymer flexo plate being manufactured in Noida
Cylinder: Laser engraving of rotogravure cylinders in Noida
Cylinder: The newly commissioned Cylinder Robotics Plant at Noida
Cylinder: The proofing machine at Noida, which is used for checking colour synchronisation and printing accuracy levels of the manufactured rotogravure cylinders
Engineering: The assembly line of solventless lamination machine section at Uflex’s engineering plant in Noida
Engineering: The assembly line for packaging machines at Noida plant
Chemicals: The flexible packaging major also manufactures inks, adhesives, coatings and polyols at its plants in Noida and Jammu
Chemicals: Uflex’s ultra-modern R&D laboratory to develop newer inks, adhesive and coatings
Chemicals: Uflex's state-of-the-art production facility for manufacturing inks at Noida
Milestone: Uflex’s state-of-the-art packaging products plant was set up in Noida in 1989
Milestone: The first world class BOPET (Bi-axially oriented Polyethylene Tepephthalate) film line was set up in Noida in 1994
Milestone: The state-of-the-art PET Chips Plant was established at Malanpur, Madhya Pradesh in 1998
Milestone: The metalliser was installed at Uflex’s Noida plant in 2002
Milestone: The manufacturing plant for packaging films in Dubai, UAE, went commercially operational in 2005
The Dubai manufacturing plant produces 52,000 MT of BOPET film and 4,800 MT of metallised film per annum
Milestone: The new state-of-the-art packaging plant was set up in Jammu in 2007
Milestone: The state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for packaging films was set up in Mexico in 2009. Today, this facility produces 60,000 MT of BOPET film and 15,600 MT of BOPP film per annum
Milestone: The state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for packaging films was set up in Egypt in 2010. Today, it produces 30,000 MT of BOPET film per annum; 35,000 MT of BOPP film; 12,000 MT of CPP film and 18,000 MT of metallised film per annum
Milestone: The state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for packaging films was set up in Egypt in 2010. Today, it produces 30,000 MT of BOPET film per annum; 35,000 MT of BOPP film; 12,000 MT of CPP film and 18,000 MT of metallised film per annum
Milestone: The state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for packaging films was set up in Poland in 2012. Today, this facility produces 30,000 MT of BOPET film and 10,800 MT of metallised film per annum
Today the Poland facility produces 30,000 MT of BOPET Film and 10,800 MT of Metallized Film per annum
The state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for packaging films was set up in Kentucky, USA in 2013. This facility produces 30,000 MT of BOPET film and 10,800 MT of metalised film per annum
Milestone: The Aseptic Packaging Plant for packing liquid products will be commercially operational at Sanand, Gujarat in 2017
Milestone: The Sanand plant will complete Uflex’s product bouquet to cover flexible packaging solutions for solids, semi-solids, viscous fluids, gels, powders, granular materials and liquids