Uflex Group Celebrating World Environment Day

World Environment Week commemorated at UFlex Ltd. with a plantation drive at ‪Yamuna‬ Bank in Delhi, India . Uflex also organised awareness generation workshop on the subject of environment. Some of the themes supported by the organization on a regular basis are: Save ‎Water‬; Save ‎Energy‬ and Safe Disposal of ‎Waste‬.

SMALL SERVES BIG FOR THE INDIAN PACKAGING INDUSTRY

Uflex India’s Largest Global Solution Company

India‬ ‘s largest flexible packaging company UFlex Ltd. all geared to display best in class printing and cross media solutions at drupa; Düsseldorf, Germany From May 31 to June 10, 2016. Today Uflex has become a brand in the packaging industry and all the credit goes to Ashok Chaturvedi and his hard work. Ashok Chaturvedi is a person with plans.

Uflex Asserted The Art And Science Of Flexible Packaging

In today’s era when the entire world is forever on the go, flexible packaging comes as the real boon for packing food and beverages.

Uflex is Offering optimised end-to-end packaging solutions for the food and beverage sector. Over three decades of unrelenting quest for perfection towards the art and science of packaging gives that natural competitive edge to deliver nothing less than the best to their esteemed customers across the globe. While devising a solution for clients, Uflex keep an unwavering focus on the following points among others: Aesthetics; Barrier Properties; Functionality; Ecofriendliness; Anti-counterfeiting measures; and Cost-effectiveness 

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Uflex highlights the importance of Smart Packaging

Uflex ltd. is one of the leading packaging entities widely known for its quality standards. The company has established benchmarks of quality and excellence in the packaging industry providing state-of-the-art packaging solutions. Growing at a CAGR of 7%, the smart packaging market is expected to reach $39 billion by the year 2020. Smart packaging plays a crucial role in shaping the customer’s buying behavior and has a major impact on brand equity. Uflex points out that smart packaging is crucial for enhancing and expanding the reach of a brand. It ensures complete safety, enhanced functionality, superior aesthetics, complete value for money and convenience. The company states that smart packaging is an added advantage to the brand owner as it enhances customer interface. Tech Savvy customers use newer forms of media or technology platforms and those brands who engage on these platforms undoubtedly stand a higher chance of staying relevant in consumer’s life.

Smart Packaging enhances the information which makes it complete and ‘Intelligent Packaging’. It helps the customer to make informed purchase decisions as the complete information is provided by the smart codes embedded onto the package. It extends the shelf life of the product as an intelligent package calibrates itself in accordance with the ambience outside and inside the package. For instance color changing plastics can detect food spoilage and communicate the same to the retailers and consumers. Time Temperature Indicator Plastics are a big boon to detect loss of quality of the products packed. Food labels that communicate the packaged product’s state of freshness are getting picked up faster from the shelves. Smart packaging also ensures more sustainable package solutions as it helps to reduce the impact of packaging on the environment.

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Uflex Organizing Stairs School Football League (SSFL) Delhi – Season 2

Uflex, the packaging business of India, is figured for its Corporate Social Responsibility exercises and starting late in news is the association's sponsorship of the Stairs School Football League (SSFL) Delhi – Season. The affiliation is sorted out to pursue leading footballers who require the right stage to showcase their capacity. SSFL outfits them with the opportunity to make to national and overall football classes. Uflex has vowed a 5 year support for SSFL.

SSFL – Delhi saw enthusiasm from more than 6,000 youths across more than 288 schools in the National Capital Region in its second season. It started with at the end of the day 60 grassroots spotting camps over the four zones in Delhi. 592 matches were battled in a period spreading more than 100 days with collaboration from 288 gatherings. In a beginning, 32 young women's gatherings also took an enthusiasm for SSFL Delhi – 2 squaring up the gender diversity. In this process, STAIRS has been able to shortlist over 350 promising footballers for professional training. Over 150 underprivileged children including 52 girls were spotted and trained by STAIRS through the widely spread grassroots camps across Delhi.

4 winning teams – one each from Under 14 Girls, Under 14 Boys, Under 17 Girls, Under 17 Boys lifted the majestic gold plated Champions Trophy while the runners-up received the grand Silver Trophy. Both trophies are the running trophies and will remain with the winning teams’ school until the beginning of the SSFL 2016. The ceremony also witnessed 20 talented players who received the Golden Boot and Ball trophy. Individual prizes were given to 4 Best Strikers, 4 Best Defenders, 4 Best Goalkeepers, 4 Best Midfielders and 4 most promising players, one each for boys and girls in their respective age categories.

Mr. Ashok Chaturvedi, Chairman & Managing Director, Uflex Limited in an official statement said that nothing bonds people better than sports bringing out all emotions to the fore. He is a firm believer that Sport is a medium that helps furthering the cause of national integration. It doesn’t get better than starting at early adolescence like SSFL does. The adrenaline rush on both sides builds up the real climax and then the best team wins. Winning or losing the game is not important, as long as true sportsmanship rules the roost. Uflex is in the business of flexible packaging and he exactly understands the merit of sports in packaging and shaping up the personalities of these budding sportspersons.

He was particularly elated to learn about the participation from girls. Today children are creating miracles on Indian soil. Tomorrow they will win laurels for our country across the globe. This is just the beginning. He congratulated all the participants of SSFL-Delhi, their family members and coaches for putting up a spectacular show over the last 100 days. He was glad with the partnership between Uflex and STAIRS for this meaningful endeavor and he is looking forward to more exciting and successful SSFL seasons in the years that follow.

Speaking at the closing ceremony, Mr. Siddhartha Upadhyay, Founder and Secretary General, STAIRS said that today when the whole world is converging as a global village, SSFL is looked up to as one of the most promising football talent scouting platforms by clubs and bodies seeking to acquire talent right at early adolescence. While many officials and individuals from professional bodies keep their eyes on the budding players during the matches, selectors from international foreign clubs watch ‘live streaming’ of important matches and even call for recorded videos to assess the performance of promising players. STAIR’s efforts are focused at fulfilling children’s universal right to play; create opportunities for them to showcase their sporting talent and also nourish and nurture the promising players. The ultimate aim is to provide India with a pool of players who will ensure that we win at international competitions and make the whole country proud. In the process of scouting and training, the change in children’s personality, the positivity in their lives and the happiness that STAIRS is spreading are clearly the by-products of the engagement. It is extremely heartening to see the second season of SSFL being a whopping success. He firmly believes that season 3 will bet yet better and bigger in all respects.

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Huge revenue consolidated by Uflex ltd.in the FY 2015-16

Uflex ltd. is a main packaging development element internationally recognized for its quality norms of magnificence in the packaging industry.It is developing as the biggest completely coordinated adaptable packaging solution supplier covering an extensive variety of customers in different commercial enterprises over the globe. Uflex ltd. has built up benchmarks of accomplishment and development obliging the constantly expanding interest for flexible packaging arrangements everywhere throughout the world. It has expanded its area of operations providing innovative packaging solutions for all solids, semi solids, pastes, gels, viscous fluids, powders and granular materials. The proximity to customers and innovation for creating differentiation are the hallmarks of the company. The persistent research & development along with technological expertise has provided Uflex ltd. a great advantage over the competitors. 

Uflex Ltd. has achieved 20% growth in the net profit for Q2 FY 2015-16. The net profit lhas increased from Rs. 65 crores last year to Rs. 78 crores this year. The company has recorded total revenue of Rs. 1535 crores for the quarter period ending on 30th September 2015. It was Rs. 1655 crores in the last financial year during the same period. There has been 19% growth in the net profit rate of the first half of the financial year 2015-16. It has increased from Rs. 129 crores to Rs. 154 crores this year. It is another benchmark of success and innovation in flexible packaging industry establish by Uflex Ltd. In the financial period from 1st April 2015 to 30th September 2015, Uflex ltd consolidated total revenue of Rs. 3140 crores which was Rs. 3201 crore during the same period in the financial year 2014-15.The company will complete its range of product offerings with the new Aseptic Packaging Plant for packing liquid products that will go operational in the first half of 2017 at Sanand – Gujarat.

Uflex completes its product offerings by venturing into Aseptic Packaging Sector

Uflex is globally acknowledged packaging industry which is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified and is approved by FDA and BGA. The company’s quality standards and excellence are acknowledged in the form of various awards and achievements like the top exporter of BOPET and BOPP films, the Worldstar award for packaging excellence, FPA, AIMCAL and the DUPONT in 2004-2005. It is pioneering the packaging industry with benchmarks in quality and customer satisfaction. .  With unparalleled quality standards, durability quotient, great aesthetics, anti-counterfeiting features, maximum customer satisfaction and the ability to cater to different requirements of sizes and products, Uflex is emerging as one of the leading packaging entities.

 The company has made its presence felt across the globe with escalating manufacturing facilities, established offices, areas of operation and expanding market in more than 85 countries.  With its state-of-the-art technologies and innovative packaging solutions, Uflex is emerging as India’s largest flexible packaging company.

With the aim of expanding its areas of operation and providing innovative packaging solutions to different countries, Uflex ltd. is ready to set up its new venture in Aseptic Packaging industry at Sanand in Gujarat. With this project the company strives to provide innovative packaging solutions for liquid products. With various factors supporting the growth of aseptic packaging solutions, it is excelling and emerging as the new trend in the packaging industry. It offers various advantages over the conventional packaging methods like portability & light weight, preservation of nutrients, cost effectiveness, longer shelf life, sustainability, easy storage and handling. Uflex’s foray into the aseptic packaging industry has expanded its areas of operation and completed its range of product offerings.

Uflex wins the Export award by ‘The Plastics Export Promotion Council’

The Plastics Export Promotion Council 2013-14 gave Uflex Ltd. with the Export Award in the Metalized Polyester Film classification on 25th September 2015. The occasion concurred with the jubilee celebration of PLEXCONCIL. The sending out crew in the Indian Plastics Industry is spoken to by The Plastics Export Promotion Council; supported by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Commerce, and Government of India. Uflex Ltd. has built up quality measures in the packaging business giving the most productive adaptable packaging arrangements over the world at the best value facilitates. After winning the recompense, Mr. Ashok Chaturvedi, CMD, Uflex gathering highlighted the organization's dedication and genuine endeavors to serve the best to its clients regarding creative packaging arrangements and plastic films.

The Export Awards are settled on the premise of the export returns documented by the individuals from the Council. The main two exporters are chosen among those filing returns for a specific item class. Chartered Accountant certificates corroborating and supporting the declared figures finally help the Jury to decide about the winners. Uflex ltd. is widely known and trusted name is the packaging industry and is the largest fully integrated Indian flexible packaging solution provider to a range of clients across industries both in India and overseas. Its market is expanded to more than 140 countries in the world.

Uflex ltd. has achieved considerable success with its state-of-the-art technologies and established benchmarks since its inception. Its excellence and durability quotient is acknowledged in the form of various awards and achievements like DuPont Silver Award 2015, India’s Top 500 Companies 2015 by D&B, The Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) Awards and Asia’s Most Promising Brand 2013-14 by World Consulting & Research Corporation in the year 1983.

Uflex arrangements to contribute Rs. 1,000 crore for development

The flexible packaging business sector giant Uflex is developing and differentiating which runs as an inseparable unit with the general development of the packaging industry. Uflex is a packaging brand which has first rate brands as its customer base. The organization is presently wanting to contribute Rs. 1,000 crore over the accompanying two years to grow its operations.

The company has plans on enhancing its capacity and adding more value to its flexible packaging product range spanning liquid and granular materials, as told by a top company official.

Uflex chairman and managing director Ashok Chaturvedi said during an interview that as part of their growth plans, the company has proposed to invest Rs.1,000 crore in the next two years to expand capacity and product range for packaging semi-liquids and liquid materials and powder and granular materials.

Uflex is based at Noida and works multinational with production plants in India, Dubai, Egypt, Mexico, Poland and the US and markets in 85 countries worldwide. Uflex makes polyester chips, plastic films, laminates, inks and adhesives for packaging liquid and solid goods.

Industry Council for Research and Packaging on the Environment (INCPEN) says that flexible packaging helps reduce food wastage to one percent from three percent by increasing its shelf life, especially of vegetables and dairy products.

The 32-year-old firm has plants at Noida in Uttar Pradesh near Delhi, Jammu and in Malanpur in Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh and is now setting up an aseptic plant at Sanand in Gujarat to pack liquid products at Rs.550 crore in first phase.

Chaturvedi said that when they will be fully commissioned in phases over the next two-three years, the Sanand plant will employ about 3,000 people and 90 percent of its production will be to meet domestic demand.

Uflex has many big names as its customers which span across 140 countries of the world. These include P&G, PepsiCo, Tata Global, Mondelez, L' Oreal, Britannia, Haldiram, Amul, Kimberly Clark, Ferro Rocher, Perfetti, GSK, Nestle, Agrotech Foods, Coca Cola, Wrigley and Johnson & Johnson. The company has lately unveiled a range of inks, which are rub-scratch and crinkle resistance and offer good gloss and tape release.

Uflex has developed technology to reprocess mixed plastic waste arising from production process. The technology also reprocesses mixed plastic waste after customers refuse into articles for making durable plastic products.

The benefits of Flexible Packaging

Flexible Packaging can be modified into for all intents and purposes any shape or size. It can likewise fuse a mixed bag of hues and styles. An alternate looking, startlingly smooth packaging without a doubt turns into a head turner at the Point of Sale and stands a reasonable shot of being picked.

Flexible packaging is relatively cheap, therefore even the most cost conscious business can afford it. Flexible Packaging can be customized to suit a brand so that businesses aren’t pushed to strike a compromise between short term gains and long term brand equity.

In the flexible packaging market, food packaging is one of the fastest growing segments due to a steep rise in consumption of packaged food items. A growing sense of concern for health coupled up with knowledge about nutrition of the packaged food has given a huge fillip to the packaging industry.

Flexible packaging has immensely benefited from the ever increasing influx of brands in the market. Materials like BOPET,BOPP, CPP and EVOH have stood the test of time by offering superior  barrier properties. This is one of the reasons why flexible packaging has been in great demand given the improved shelf life and greater protection that it offers. Other features like durability, convenience, designabilitiy, eco-friendliness etc have been desirable in making flexible packaging a whopping hit amongst food retailers.

Flexible packaging paves way for new and sophisticated printing and designing techniques. This alone gives the manufacturers to create attractive logos, designs, graphics etc on their package which can catch the attention of the consumer. Uflex believes that the greatest boon to the FMCG sector in contemporary times has been the advent of flexible packaging, that owes its existence to Mr. Ashok Chaturvedi (Founder & CMD of Uflex) who created ripples in the market by introducing this concept in the decade of 80’s.

Uflex under the aegis of Mr. Ashok Chaturvedi has steered the packaging industry to the NEXT LEVEL delivering the absolute best in terms of aesthetics, functionality, barrier properties and eco-friendliness at the most competitive price coordinates.

Packaging becomes the 5th P of marketing industry By Uflex

As per Uflex 4 Ps of showcasing have now included another P which implies packaging. So what portrays advertising in today's business division are Product, Price, Place, Promotion and Packaging. The packaging business has seen an impact inferable from its usage especially in FMCG and retail zone. The use of bundling in these business undertakings is particularly tremendous as it speaks to the quality of product.From being just a source of storage, packaging and especially flexible packaging, has come of age. There is a detectable movement in food packaging towards flexible packaging materials, as these are solid, lightweight and space-sparing. Flexible packaging is made from materials like plastic, aluminum and paper. These materials undergo a detailed conversion process such as printing, lamination, coating, extrusion, and pouch & roll making to develop different types of flexible packaging products.

The role of packaging in marketing has become more important than ever as it creates the first ‘impression of truth’ for the customers at the Point of Sale. Packaging can actually make or break the deal.

A number of manufacturers are turning to flexible packaging of their products as it offers a variety of exciting marketing opportunities to the producer without increasing the cost of production. The packaging solutions can be actually ‘bespoke’ with respect to merchandising requirements.

The global packaging industry is expected to grow to $820 billion by 2016. The Indian packaging industry, growing at roughly 15% annually, is estimated to become the fourth-largest in the world, with revenues of $43.7 billion in 2016. Market research reports have also estimated the flexible packaging market in India to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 15-16% over the next five years. These statistics are giving rise to new prospects for the industry, especially the SMEs in the flexible packaging industry. Given the fast changing dynamics of the industry, there is a need to elevate the knowledge levels of all the value chain participants to international standards through relevant capability building and best practice sharing platforms.