Uflex Showcases Innovative Product Offerings in Q3 FY24

In the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, UFlex Limited introduced a multitude of innovative products across its business verticals. The company also achieved notable recognition by winning multiple awards and securing patents in the quarter ended December 31, 2023.

Packaging Films Business

1. B-INM-M, Superior Barrier Metallized BOPP Film: This film stands out as a premier choice for various packaging needs. Inline-coated and metallised, it offers an exceptional oxygen barrier (OTR) of less than 01 cc/m²/day and boasts an excellent moisture barrier (WVTR) of less than 0.1 g/m²/day. With superior metal bond strength and cost-effective attributes, it is engineered for recyclability. This versatile film finds its application in a multitude of sectors including dry beverages, chips and snacks, health and beauty care sachets, detergents, and confectionery products. Its triple structure versatility allows it to replace aluminium foil and metallized PET, offering convenience and efficiency. It caters to diverse packaging requirements, ranging from 2-ply extrusion applications to single-layer pouches and sachets. The film includes features like both-side treatment and one side for metallization; hybrid composition with one side emphasizing high heat seal strength and the other side for metallization, and thicker micron options (30/40) with one side low SIT and the other side for metallization, making it an indispensable solution for a wide array of packaging applications.

2. C-CPM-ML-M, CPP metallized film:This film is tailored specifically for molasses packing, constituting a functional raw material that excels in various aspects. Recognized for its good seal integrity, this film ensures that contents remain securely enclosed, preserving freshness and quality. Boasting commendable barrier properties, it shields against external elements, maintaining the integrity of the packaged molasses. Its exceptional hot tack facilitates efficient sealing processes, enhancing productivity and reliability. Moreover, the filmexhibits good metal adhesion.

3. The C-CBP-WG CPP film:This film stands as a functional raw material designed to meet stringent packaging demands. Renowned for its exceptional optical properties, this film ensures clear visibility and presentation of packaged goods, enhancing product appeal. With low slip characteristics tailored for high-speed packaging environments, it ensures smooth handling and reliable performance throughout the packaging process. Notably, it boasts excellent drop impact strength, providing robust protection against potential damage during handling and transportation. Primarily engineered for low ambient temperature conditions, this film finds its niche in bread packaging, frozen foods, and bakery products, where maintaining product quality and integrity is paramount. Its versatility makes it a preferred choice for businesses seeking packaging solutions that combine performance and practicality.                                           
4. The B-UTX ultra high barrier Alox BOPP film:This film is a top-tier Alox-coated product crafted from BOPP, serving as a functional raw material in the packaging industry. Renowned for its outstanding barrier properties, it excels in shielding contents from gases, oxygen (less than 1 cc/m^2/day), and aromas, ensuring prolonged freshness and quality retention. Additionally, its exceptional moisture barrier (less than 1 gm/m^2/day) effectively safeguards against humidity and moisture ingress, preserving the integrity of packaged goods. The film’s superior optics contribute to clear and visually appealing packaging presentations. Notably, its clear vacuum coating enhances its functionality and versatility across various applications. Tailored for dry foods, beverage powders, chips, snacks, biscuits, cookies, and crackers packaging, it meets the diverse needs of the food industry, ensuring optimal preservation and presentation of packaged products. The B-UTX film is a testament to innovation and quality, offering a reliable solution for businesses seeking high-performance packaging materials.                                                                                                               
5. The B-UMB-M, an outstanding barrier metallized BOPP film:This film stands at the forefront of metallized films, offering unparalleled performance and versatility. Boasting exceptional oxygen (less than 0.1 cc/m²/day) and moisture barrier (less than 0.1 gm/m²/day) properties, it ensures prolonged freshness and quality retention of packaged goods. Furthermore, its exceptional barrier to aroma and migration barrier against mineral oil enhance product protection and integrity. With excellent metal adhesion, it guarantees secure bonding and durability. This film serves as a sustainable and recyclable solution, offering a chlorine-free alternative to PVDC-coated films and replacing aluminum foil while supporting eco-friendly practices. Its ease of processing at high speeds makes it ideal for various packaging applications, including dry fruits, beverages, chips, snacks, biscuits, cookies, crackers, confectionery, and chocolate packaging. The B-UMB-M film epitomizes innovation and reliability, catering to the diverse needs of the packaging industry while upholding sustainability standards.

Chemicals Business

1. Flexcure SF “Nutri” for NPH (Nutrition, Pharma and Hygiene) applications: Flexcure SF “Nutri” series represents a new generation radical mechanism designed especially for food packaging, pharma, and hygiene applications; for a wide range of substrates like paper, paper board and Met PET board, etc. suitable for processing with all latest generation high-speed UV sheetfed offset printing machines. The inks provided are specifically designed for application on the non-food contact side of food packaging, ensuring compliance with relevant Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and guidelines outlined in the Technical Data Sheet (TDS). Offering outstanding printability and transfer characteristics, these inks boast superior adhesion and maintain a controlled ink-water balance even at high speeds. With excellent curing properties and high colour strength coupled with minimal misting, they guarantee optimal results. Furthermore, they adhere to stringent standards, including EuPIA and Swiss ordinance guidelines, ensuring the lowest migration and odor levels. Free from harmful substances like BP, ITX, and silicon, these inks are available in a variety of colours, including process colours, white, and all base colours, catering to diverse packaging needs.               
2. Flexgreen “HFS Screen” coating for all packaging applications: The Flexgreen product series represents a new generation of our LED inks and coatings for various print applications. Flexgreen “HFS Screen” coating is a free-radical chemistry-based UV LED varnish to be applied by screen printing specially designed to print on papers, cards, and cardboard. It is a highly flexible LED coating with excellent curing capabilities on automatic/semi-automatic screen-printing machines with LED lamps of wavelength 385-395 nm. Achieving high adhesion on challenging materials like PE or PP laminates and offset inks, this product stands out for its exceptional performance. Its cured film exhibits remarkable flexibility, allowing for precise die-cutting post-application. With outstanding foil receptivity and good resistance to nails and scratches, it ensures durability and longevity. The curing process, operating within the 385-395 nm wavelength band, is consistently excellent. Furthermore, it results in an impeccably even, smooth surface with a glossy finish, free from any odor or yellowing. Notably, this product is free from harmful substances such as BP and ITX, emphasizing its commitment to safety and quality.
3. Marine Lam Inks (water-based reverse lamination inks): Marine Lam Inks are meticulously crafted for Gravure to reverse printing applications, specifically tailored for BOPP and chemical-coated polyester films, presenting a low VOC solution aligned with the ecological demands of today’s society. These inks boast exceptional characteristics, including high strength coupled with low viscosity, facilitating smooth printing operations. They excel in printability and dot transfer, ensuring precise and vivid results. Notably, they exhibit outstanding adhesion on BOPP and CC PET, along with impressive bond strength values compatible with both solvent-free and solvent-based adhesives. With low VOC content, these inks emit minimal odor, enhancing working conditions. Moreover, they enable efficient printing speeds, making them a preferred choice for diverse printing needs.

4. FLEXBON R110A / FLEXBON R110C:The product is ingeniously formulated using reverse chemistry principles, where the NCO serves both as an adhesive and a hardener, accelerating the curing process. This unique approach ensures a higher crosslinking density within the polymer, resulting in expedited curing compared to conventional methods. Notably, the   adhesive demonstrates excellent run-ability, facilitated by a low quantity of NCO components that contribute to rapid primary amine decay. Its standout features include faster decay of primary aromatic amines, establishing exceptional bonds even on metalized films, and boasting impressive bond and seal strength. Furthermore, it exhibits superior wettability on challenging substrates, rendering it a cost-effective and environmentally conscious solution. Its greener chemistry, characterized by low consumption of Isocyanate, underscores its commitment to sustainability and innovation in adhesive technology.

Flexible Packaging Business

1. Peelable PE Solution:A specially engineered peelable PE solution has been developed to meet the stringent demands of the Food and Beverages industry, ensuring both leak-proof performance and easy opening functionality. This innovative solution features a structured composition comprising 12 mic PET, 12 mic Met PET and 75 mic peelable natural PE. Specifically designed to cater to the unique requirements of food packaging, this peelable PE material offers exceptional sealing properties while also allowing for effortless opening. The customer, equipped with PP trays and utilizing both 12-track and 20-track machines, benefits from the versatility and reliability of this specialized packaging solution, streamlining their production processes and ensuring product integrity throughout the supply chain.

2. Packaging for Savlon Hand wash powder:UFlex has recently forayed into the packaging of the Savlon Hand Wash Powder by ITC. The product specifications entail utilizing 12 PET/ 30 PE WHITE for packaging, ensuring high-quality and reliable containment of the hand wash powder. This collaboration underscores UFlex’s commitment to providing innovative and effective packaging solutions for well-established brands.

Holography Business

1. HSF in lower gauge/ thickness – Textile grade/Graphic grade and cold foil:High gloss hot stamping foil (HSF) works great for precise applications and defined patterns in small areas. Cold foil, on the other hand, is the perfect product for large areas, such as moderate or full coverage of sheet labels, stickers and folding cartons etc. The USP of these products is their fine definition application and versatility of adhesion on various printed and lacquered surfaces at lower temperature ranges. This saves energy consumption during application. Also, this high-speed stamping foil helps users to have more productivity and save time as well as costs. Due to its lower thickness, these foils provide higher film volume thus higher coverage of the material compared to traditional products available in the market. Available in numerous colours, these competitive-cost products have created a new segment in the market that provides a win-win situation to the manufacturer/ producer and end user of the product.

2. Holographic Alu-Alu foil for pharma:The successful commercial launch of the product — the Holographic Alu-Alu Blister marks a substantial leap forward in raising industry benchmarks in pharmaceutical packaging solutions. The Holographic Alu-Alu Blister serves as a prominent manifestation of UFlex’s steadfast commitment to pushing the boundaries within the industry in terms of Brand Protection through covert features.The introduction of the Holographic Alu-Alu Blister has undeniably created an impact on the market. This product anticipates sustained growth as pharmaceutical companies increasingly recognize the inherent value of Anti-counterfeiting solutions. The company is resolute in their commitment to innovation, ensuring that it consistently meets and exceeds the evolving needs of its esteemed clients.

Printing Cylinders Business

This business continues to manufacture cylinders compatible with sustainable inks, particularly water-based inks.

Engineering Business

1. Double Head Coating-1650:The Engineering Business of UFlex has been rising to the occasion to meet the ever-increasing demand of the market including in-house. In the recent past, there has been an increase in the demand for coating machines. The engineering business designed and developed the coating machines to cover web widths ranging up to 2500mm. One such machine of 1650mm width with double head has been supplied recently. The objective of the machines is to apply coatings spread over a range of thicknesses and carriers also.  To meet the huge demand, various types of coating methods have been incorporated namely; gravure coating, reverse gravure coating with a gap, reverse gravure coating with kiss and kiss coating with a smoothing bar. Further ceramic IR heaters are very well used as preheaters before the film enters the dryer hood. In the double head coating both the heads have been made considering various demands as the first head comprises 5 drying cabinets and the second has 8 drying cabinets. Necessary safety precautions have been duly taken care of by way of using the LEL system. Additional features include floor lifting unwind and rewind, sleeve-type impression rollers, and chamber doctor blades to name a few. Riding high on the features and with the support of Corona Treaters, the machine is capable of coating right from a very thin coating of 0.2 GSM to a thick coating of 6 GSM guaranteeing smooth and even coating across the film width adding value to the substrates.

Awards and Accreditations:

• The UFlex Chemicals business has been awarded a certificate of Merit in the Dyes and Pigments Sector, by The Ministry of Power at the National Energy Conservation Awards (NECA)2023.
• The R&D lab of the Packaging Films Business known as the Testing and Research Centre (TARC) has been accredited with ISO / IEC 17025: 2017 in accordance with the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL)

Patents and Copyrights:

• The UFlex Packaging Films business has been granted a patent for its innovative research methodology to develop formable films, laminate structures, and related methods (Patent No.: 440790).
• The UFlex Packaging Films business has been granted a patent for its innovative research methodology to develop high-barrier polyethylene terephthalate film (Patent No.: 363620).
• The UFlex Packaging Films business has been granted a patent for a new innovative product, ‘Monolayer PET Blister Forming Film’ (Patent No.: 473335).
• The UFlex Packaging Films business has been granted a patent for its innovative research methodology to develop formable films, laminate structures, and related methods (Patent No.: 482775).
• The UFlex Aseptic Packaging business has been granted the patent for ‘An aseptic liquid packaging container’ (Patent No.:2022/13179).
• The UFlex Engineering business has been granted copyright for ‘An ink trolley quick change over system for rotogravure printing machine station’ (Registration No.: A-148758/2023).
• The UFlex Engineering business has been granted a copyright for the innovation of an ‘Improved collar type vertical form fill seal machine with an auto splicer’ (Registration No.: A-147882/2023).
• The UFlex Engineering business has been granted copyright for an innovative product, ‘Continuous motion multi-track high-speed vertical form fill seal machine (Registration No.: A-147374/2023).

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Rosler Uk To Showcase Broad Range Of Finishing Solutions At Mach 2024

Rösler UK is delighted to announce that it will be exhibiting on stand 6-540 at the upcoming MACH 2024 exhibition 15-19 April in Birmingham. Committed to driving innovation and creating value for UK manufacturers, Rösler is excited to show attendees an array of finishing solutions for traditionally produced and additively manufactured parts and components which represent best-in-class solutions for a range of industrial applications.

Expert in shot blasting and mass finishing technologies as well as bespoke post-processing solutions for Additive Manufacturing (AM), the company will be showing it RMBC 2.1 Tumble Belt Blast Machine, its R220EC Rotary Vibrator with R250 Dryer, and two AM post-processing solutions.

Colin Spellacy, Head of Sales at Rösler UK says, “Rösler has been a prominent player in the mass finishing and shot blasting arena for over 80 years, providing solutions across a range of industry sectors including technologies for exacting medical and aerospace applications. Our impressive track record isn’t just about our longevity, however, it’s a story of accumulating profound knowledge and expertise that only come with time served. What sets Rösler apart is its family ownership, which means the company is all about playing the long game, focusing on what really matters — building solid, lasting relationships with clients by truly understanding and evolving with their needs rather than focusing on short term financial gains. This customer-first, quality-obsessed approach has made Rösler a go-to ally for anyone looking for unmatched finishing precision, reliability, and quality. For often complex and demanding applications, Rösler stands as a beacon of trust, proving time and again that when it comes to mass finishing, shot blasting, and bespoke AM Solutions, we are here to lead the way and drive innovation.”

Rösler’s RMBC Tumble Belt Blast Machine which will be on display at MACH is essentially for de-sanding, descaling, de-rusting, deburring and creating homogeneous surface finishes, and is characterised by perfect cleaning of difficult-to-reach surface areas, high equipment uptime, high process stability, and consistent shot blasting results. The R220EC Rotary Vibrator, also on display, has an inbuilt separation system, is designed for processing batch parts, and is perfect for all metal finishing applications from deburring to polishing. Being shown alongside these traditional finishing machines, attendees will also find two AM post processing technologies, the M1 Basic and the S1 Wet. The M1 Basic promotes superior surface finish of metal or plastic AM parts in a cost-effective and repeatable fashion, and demonstrates how mass finishing technologies excel in eliminating layer lines, burrs, and other surface imperfections on AM parts, resulting in a flawless finish that enhances both aesthetics and functionality. The S1 Wet is a versatile wet-blasting solution for cleaning and finishing surfaces on metal and plastic parts and demonstrates perfectly the usefulness of shot blasting technologies for AM parts.

Spellacy continues, “We are excited to show attendees at MACH 2024 just what it is that sets our mass finishing and shot blasting technologies apart across all industry sectors. 

For the UK market, as indeed globally, we offer an extensive sales and service support network offering local expertise and quick responses to customer needs, especially important for applications requiring timely project execution and rapid maintenance responses. Rösler is also truly vertically integrated, manufacturing all machines in-house without third-party components, and this guarantees the highest quality standards — essential in industries where precision is non-negotiable. Emphasising automated and turnkey solutions, Rösler caters to the modern demand for efficiency and precision, offering a comprehensive package from design to installation, ensuring minimal error and maximum throughput. As a one-stop-shop for machine and media supplies with a strong post-sale care focus, the company also simplifies procurement, providing ongoing value through maintenance and training, and fosters long-term partnerships, underscoring its commitment to reliable and long-lasting solutions for its customers.”

MACH 2024 visitors are invited to come and see Rösler’s traditional and AM finishing solutions on stand 6-540, and to discuss with the team how the company’s blend of advanced technical capabilities, extensive industry knowledge, and commitment to innovation can enhance their manufacturing endeavours.

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Largest-Ever Gulfood 2024 Drives Transformation, With Global Food Futurists to Point Where the Industry Goes Next

First-Ever Skateboard Half Pipe Successfully Built From Containerboard To Highlight Material Values 

Mondi, a global leader in sustainable packaging and paper, proudly unveils a fresh initiative to highlight the values of its containerboard materials that we use in our everyday lives. In partnership with Olympian skateboarder Julia Brückler, Mondi challenges myths around making paper through a fusion of innovation, sustainability and athleticism. 

The challenge was to build the first-ever skateboard half pipe from containerboard, the paper used in corrugated packaging. Why? Because it’s a fresh, analogous way of showing how containerboard is an ideal material that we rely on every day, and we are constantly on the lookout for the next generation of people who are passionate about paper. 

Unique collaboration: Olympian Julia Brückler takes the first ride

Julia’s passion for skateboarding aligns with Mondi’s commitment to excellence and, like the sport’s resilience, this project mirrors the meticulous processes of perfecting paper grades.

Professional skateboarder Julia Brückler, who debuted at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, shares her excitement: “This was such a unique experience! It made me realise that we often take paper items used in our day-to-day lives for granted, not thinking about where they’re coming from or how they’re made. Discovering the details of paper packaging and how durable and strong the material can be during this project was eye-opening!”

Attracting the next generation of talent by explaining the values of paper packaging

At Mondi, our focus is on circular-driven solutions created by empowered people who are taking action on climate. We offer an environment where creativity and purpose converge – a workplace that continually pushes the boundaries of what’s possible. 

We have several world-leading containerboard paper mills with expert teams who make our containerboard product range. This containerboard paper is used to create corrugated solutions with nature-like strength and resilience. 

Markus Gärtner, CEO Corrugated Packaging at Mondi, comments, “This initiative is about inspiring people to see the value of our containerboard paper grades through a fresh perspective. Partnering with Olympian Julia Brückler was a great experience and it embodies our commitment to innovation, excellence and enjoying new challenges! Get in touch with us if you are looking for sustainable packaging solutions or a career full of potential.”

www.mondigroup.com

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