In order to offer infallible printing consistency to its converting clients, India's largest global flexible packaging solution company Uflex has shook hands with Think Lab, Japan and set up a Fully Automatic Robotic Laser Engraving Line for manufacturing rotogravure cylinders at the Noida facility. The robotic laser engraving line has reduced the cumbersome process of manufacturing rotogravure printing cylinders to a single operator job.
This automation however poses absolutely no threat to the current manpower as there existsa separate well contoured market segment for conventional electro-mechanically engraved, embossed, coated rotogravure printing cylinders much like the laser robotic plant engraved rotogravure cylinders. While over 200 cylinders are manufactured per day using the conventional process at Uflex, through the robotic laser engraving line spread in approximately 1/10th of the entire cylinder manufacturing shop floor area at Noida, a single operator can produce additional 60 cylinders per day.
Uflex is India’s largest end-to-end flexible packaging company and an emerging global player. The company today has state-of-the-art packaging facilities at multiple locations in India and has packaging film manufacturing facilities in India, UAE, Mexico Egypt, Poland and USA.
