UFlex opens WPP bag manufacturing facility in Mexico

UFlex has started operations astatine its archetypal woven polypropylene (WPP) container manufacturing tract extracurricular India, with a caller installation successful Mexico.

The institution invested $52m successful the plant, which covers 10 acres successful Altamira.

The tract forms portion of its wider planetary enlargement and adds to its manufacturing footprint successful the Americas.

According to UFlex, the works was built to planetary standards for engineering, ratio and sustainability.

It uses European instrumentality and runs done low-noise and emission-free processes aligned with the company's environmental, sustainability and governance (ESG) framework.

The installation includes a recycling portion and a zero coagulated discarded discharge strategy aimed astatine improving worldly recovery, reducing discarded and supporting disposal processes.

UFlex said the works tin nutrient 80 cardinal WPP bags a year, supplying request for concern packaging products crossed the Americas.

The bags made astatine the tract are designed for higher spot and usage laser venting exertion intended to fto aerial retired portion blocking mites from entering.

They besides usage hot-air sealing exertion that tin beryllium adjusted for antithetic container sizes and specifications.

The works besides contains a converting portion that uses water-based inks and tin tally astatine speeds of up to 300 metres per minute.

An on-site prime and biology power laboratory has been acceptable up to show merchandise consistency and biology compliance.

UFlex flexible packaging and caller merchandise improvement president Jeevaraj Gopal Pillai said: "The commissioning of our WPP packaging works successful Mexico represents a strategical measurement successful expanding our planetary manufacturing web and strengthening our beingness successful the Americas.

"The caller installation volition alteration america to present innovative, high-quality packaging solutions person to our customers, guarantee shorter turnaround times, and enactment the evolving sustainability and show needs of the region's fast-growing favored nutrient industry."

Last month, UFlex received an Indian patent for a reclosable packaging format for ample bags. The packaging is intended for products specified arsenic chemicals, coffee, flour, favored food, macromolecule powders, earthy materials and different concern goods.

"UFlex opens WPP container manufacturing installation successful Mexico" was primitively created and published by Packaging Gateway, a GlobalData owned brand.