In the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, UFlex introduced a variety of innovative and sustainable products across its business segments. The company achieved recognition and was conferred several awards for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.

Packaging Films Business

1. B-TAO BOPP Film: B-TAO is a one-sided acrylic-coated transparent BOPP film utilizing offline coating technology. It features a low seal initiation temperature of 85°C, which helps preserve classical freshness and fragrance while providing good optical properties. This film offers an excellent barrier to flavor and aroma, and its water-based coating ensures sustainability. Additionally, B-TAO boasts good stiffness and exceptional dimensional stability. It is ideal for a variety of applications, including overwraps for biscuits, cookies, crackers, confectionery, chocolates, and bakery products.

2. B-TAL BOPP Film: B-TAL BOPP film is an ultra-low seal initiation temperature (SIT) transparent film with a one-sided acrylic coating, produced using offline coating technology. It features a remarkably low seal initiation temperature of 65°C, which helps maintain classical freshness and fragrance while providing excellent optical properties. The film also offers superior barriers to flavor and aroma, uses a water-based coating, and ensures good stiffness and dimensional stability. B-TAL is well-suited for applications such as overwraps, biscuits, cookies, crackers, confectionery, chocolate, and bakery products.

3. B-TAA BOPP Film: B-TAA is a both-side acrylic-coated transparent BOPP film produced with an offline coating technology. It features an ultra-low seal initiation temperature of 65°C on both sides, providing excellent hot tack and superior optics. This film offers notable stiffness, hot slip properties, and a robust barrier to flavor and aroma. Additionally, B-TAA delivers excellent printability and resolution without impacting the organoleptic qualities of the products. It is ideal for overwraps for biscuits, cookies, crackers, confectionery, chocolate, and bakery items.

4. B-UNB-M BOPP Film: B-UNB-M is a high-performance metallized BOPP film with outstanding barrier properties, designed as a non-heat sealable option. It offers exceptional barriers to oxygen (<0.1 cc/m²/day) and moisture (<0.1 gm/m²/day), as well as superior protection against aroma and a good migration barrier for mineral oil. With excellent metal adhesion and a chlorine-free PVDC-coated film replacement, B-UNB-M provides a sustainable and recyclable alternative to aluminum foil. It is particularly suited for packaging dry fruits, beverages, confectionery, and chocolate.

5. C-CPR-CH CPP Film: C-CPR-CH is a co-extruded transparent CPP film designed specifically for cheese packaging. This film features a two-sided treated and sealable surface, utilizing advanced functional raw material technology. It offers exceptional sterilization performance, superior lamination adhesive anchorage, and high seal strength, making it ideal for cheese packaging, ensuring quality and freshness.

Chemicals Business

1. Flexcure “Metal spray” gloss coating: This coating represents a new-generation dual-cure UV/LED curing mechanism specifically developed for metal décor applications, including aluminum, steel, iron, and metal composites. Designed to be used with spray coating machines, this eco-friendly coating provides superior exterior durability. It features a see-through high gloss that resists yellowing, has excellent adhesion and leveling properties, and is VOC-free. Additionally, Flexcure ‘’metal spray’’ gloss coating offers high mechanical and chemical resistance and is compatible with both UV and LED digital printing technologies.

2. Flexcure “PVC mirror gloss” coating: Flexcure "Mirror gloss coating" is an advanced curing mechanism specifically designed for PVC doors and panels, both flexible and rigid, applied through roller coater systems. This coating delivers a mirror-like gloss with non-yellowing properties. It offers excellent leveling and de-foaming capabilities, superb adhesion, and is free of VOCs. Additionally, Flexcure “PVC mirror gloss’’ coating provides high mechanical and chemical resistance, ensuring durability and long-lasting performance.

3. FLEXBOND PB 40: It is a water-based synthetic adhesive tailored for general performance applications, specifically designed for handle and bottom pasting on medium to high-speed automatic paper bag-making machines using a standard wheel applicator. It is also suitable for side-pasting in corrugated boxes by wheel and can be used for flute board pasting and corrugation honeycomb production. Its key features include high wet tack and fast setting time, strong green bond strength, and suitability for low to high GSM Kraft paper, making it ideal for both paper bags and corrugated materials. Additionally, it provides reliable bond strength across various applications.

4. FLEXCOAT FP barrier coat UF009: This water-based, eco-friendly primer-free coating provides a high oxygen barrier and is specifically recommended for BOPET films to enhance the shelf life of food products. Ideal for packaging dry foods such as nuts, chips, and biscuits, this coating ensures high clarity and good printability. It can be applied offline using a conventional rotogravure cylinder and offers strong adhesion with both solvent-based and solvent-less adhesives. Key features include its environmental friendliness, primer-free formulation, and superior bond strength.

5. Polyurethane Acrylate (FLEXCRYL 3333): The polyurethane acrylate resin is widely utilized in the production of UV-curable coatings, printing inks, and adhesives. It boasts excellent mechanical properties and flexibility, ensuring durability and performance in various applications. The resin offers high resistance to chemicals and extreme temperatures, along with notable resistance to yellowing and abrasion, making it an ideal choice for demanding environments where both longevity and stability are crucial.

6. FLEXBON R110A/FLEXBON R110C (2K Solvent-free reverse chemistry PU adhesive for flexible packaging): This adhesive for flexible packaging is designed to provide superior wetting properties, making it highly effective for laminating combinations of metallized films and aluminum foils with printed films, producing speckle-free laminates. It significantly reduces PAA migration in the laminates and is well-suited for high-speed lamination processes. The adhesive ensures an excellent lay of laminate, particularly on metallized substrates, and features fast curing, along with strong bond and seal strength.

Flexible Packaging Business

1. Mankind Agritech range 3D pouch with plastic handle: The launch of the Mankind Agritech range introduces a groundbreaking 3D pouch with a plastic handle, marking a first in the pesticide and fertilizer industry. This innovative packaging solution features a structure tailored to meet the specific needs of the Nurturkind and Zeauesforce variants. This advanced design enhances convenience and functionality, setting a new standard in agricultural product packaging.

2. RISO Flaxomega multi-source edible oil 1 litre: The 1-litre center spout pouch represents a new packaging solution for RISO Flaxomega edible oil, offering a convenient alternative to traditional PET bottles. This innovative pouch features a standup spout, making it easy to use and ideal for dispensing edible oil. The center spout design enhances convenience and functionality, marking a significant shift in packaging for this product segment.

3. 3D format pouch in vermi-compost: The new 3D format pouch for vermicompost comes in two variants: one with a degassing valve and one without. The inclusion of a degassing valve in one variant helps maintain optimal conditions for the compost, ensuring its effectiveness and longevity. Both options provide a convenient and efficient way to utilize vermicompost, supporting sustainable agricultural practices.

 Holography Business

1. Advanced holographic blister packs: UFlex’s enhanced holographic blister packs are equipped with a range of visually striking and scientifically advanced security features that make replication nearly impossible. These packs showcase dynamic 3D images, with embedded holograms that shift and transform from every angle, creating an impressive visual display that is difficult to duplicate. Additionally, they include microscopic details such as micro-text and nano-patterns, which are invisible to the naked eye and serve as covert authentication features detectable only with specialized equipment. This combination of overt and covert holographic elements forms a robust defence against counterfeiting, ensuring product authenticity and upholding brand integrity. In an industry where the safety and efficacy of medications are paramount, UFlex’s innovative technology provides critical protection for brands and consumers alike, reinforcing trust and safeguarding public health.

Awards and Accreditations:

1. UFlex won six awards at the 32nd edition of the WORLD HRD Congress 2024 including Best HR Company of the Year and Best in Training and Organization Development, Best Use of HR Practices as an Engagement Strategy, and Best Use of Learning and Development for Employee Engagement, Best Employee Engagement Program and Best Employer Promoting Healthy Work Environment and Culture.