Ajay Tandon, president and CEO, engineering business, Uflex, said, “This re-engineering and value addition gave birth to extrusion coating / laminators as mono extruder, co-extruder and tandem extruder variants.”

Tandon said the mono extruder is good enough to meet the principal application of extrusion coating / lamination. However, considering the running costs and flexibility to play with various polymers, co-extruders are getting increasingly popular. In addition to economising the costs, co-extruders also play an important role towards enhancing barrier properties owing to multi-layered combination.

Tandem extruder has been designed so as to execute multi-layered jobs in single run for saving upon the process time.

“The fact that in addition to the delivered machine, four more machines are being currently manufactured at our plant in Noida proves the credibility that Uflex as a manufacturer of converting and packaging machinery enjoys,” Tandon said, adding, “We have a powerful feedback loop that helps us tap the pulse of the market at all times. It is for this important feedback which we received from the convertors’ fraternity that we were able to give unparalleled features to the extrusion coating / laminators including auto adjustment of the silicone belt, movement of extruder / T-Die in three axis...x-y-z, possibility of top and bottom splicing to name just a few.”

Ashok Chaturvedi, chairman and managing director, Uflex, said, “Only successful engineering is potent enough to quell the thirst for innovation. I am glad that my team has been able to add discernible value to the existing extrusion lamination machine by further engineering Mono Extruder, Co-Extruder and Tandem Extruder variants for meeting multifarious needs of convertors.”