India’s Top 500 Companies 2019

INDIA’S TOP 500 COMPANIES 2019 321 Advertorial international market. The plant capacity for OPP Film is 34,000 TPA at Noida and stands at 43,400 TPA for Egypt plant. BOPET (Bi-axially Oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate) film, a polyester film using high-quality resins, is produced at the company’s film manufacturing plants across four continents with a cumulative production capacity in excess of 2,56,000 TPA. Metallized films are manufactured at all film manufacturing plants of the company, with a cumulative production capacity of over 78,600 TPA. The company has also added a range of eco-friendly films to its packaging films product portfolio. FlexFilms, the company’s global film manufacturing arm, have started manufacturing specialized PET films under the brand Asclepius TM , which is a family of plain, treated, coated, high-barrier, high-bond and heat-sealable BOPET films based on 90% PCR polymer content. • Flexible Packaging Business : The main products of this business are laminates made of various combinations of polyester, BOPP, poly, metalized and holographic films and others in roll form and in various preformed pouches and bags of several sizes and profiles, laminated flexi-tubes. Also aligned with the core business of flexible packaging are allied activities involving manufacturing of packaging and converting machines; rotogravure cylinders, metallic dies, flexo-printing press; flexo-polymer plates, elastomers and sleeves; inks and adhesives and holographic materials. Key Highlights • Developed a specialized satellite thermal radiation insulation film for Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). • Certified by the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) as a security printer for printing MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) instruments for its member banks. • Forayed into online space with the launch of e-commerce website FLEX-BuzzR , offering complete range of film products from its Poland plant to customers in European Region at a click of a button. • Asepto marked its entry into retail shelves with Fresca Juice holographic packs, followed by Juceika juice variants. • United States patent for its breakthrough BOPET Film, used for Alu-Alu blister pack, was granted to FlexFilms USA to manufacture and sell this special BOPET film in US, for the next 20 years. • Launched Metallic Dies, produced at Cylinder unit’s latest and fully automatic CNC Die manufacturing line, for hot foil stamping and embossing on printed labels and packs. • Developed a 100% bio-degradable premium lens transfer paper using fresnel lens for carton packaging. • Launched FlexGreen , a series of UV-LED process colors for sheet-fed offset printing on coated paper, paperboard and met-pet board, assuring energy efficiency. • On the road to Industry 4.0, launched Industrial Internet of Things (llOT) enabled converting machines like Extrusion Coating & Lamination Machine ‘EX LAM 400 ’ designed with high-line speed of 400 meters per minute (mpm); Solventless Laminator Machine ‘Super S-1300 ’; and Gearless CI Flexo Printing Press ‘Elisa’ with high automation level in the form of sleeves, anilox removal system and efficient ink washing system, making Uflex the first ever Indian company to offer it. • Developed 4-D Bags, a brick-shaped all-panel registered bag/ pouch with a handle and re-closable option, which stands or lies on the belly and provides the same utility as flexi-cartons. These 4D Bags have proved to be an ideal packaging solution for granular products like rice, coffee, tea, detergents, pet food etc. Sustainability On its path to sustainability, Uflex installed latest recycling machine with advanced technology to convert Multi-layered Plastic (MLP) into granules at its Noida plant. The company also commissioned its new Pyrolysis plant at its Noida facility; earning it the distinction of first such plant in North India. Through pyrolysis, waste is converted to fuel by chemically decomposing organic materials at elevated temperatures in the absence of oxygen. The pyrolysis plant’s two reactors at Uflex Noida unit can convert 6 tonnes of discarded waste material generated every day from printing, unused trim, laminates, tubes and other unprocessed material into various forms of fuel like liquid fuel, hydrocarbon gas and carbon black, which is further utilized in manufacturing processes. Aseptic Packaging Plant Packaging Films Plant Packaging Plant Pyrolysis Plant Dun & Bradstreet