Filling and packaging 10,000 aseptic liquid packs an hour
The UFlex engineering Business has now developed a faster aseptic liquid filling and sealing machine called the Flexpress 10000 Servo Control Liquid Filling Machine for Aseptic Liquid Packaging. With the burgeoning demand for packed beverages like juice, dairy products and alcohol burgeoning, the need for fast movement of supply chain operations including quick production has become non-negotiable.
To meet this growing demand, UFlex has developed the servo powered liquid filling machine Flexpress 10000 with the capacity to pack 10,000 aseptic liquid packs in an hour. The machine is equipped with a user-friendly Human Interface Module (HMI) integrated with an advanced Programmable Logic controller (PLC) system that facilitates easy operations. The USP of this machine is its main drive system which is aided by high-end water-cooled servo motors that provide the flexibility to manage a multiple volume range, quick change-over time, and prevent wear and tear of the machine. Since its launch, the machine has been generating excellent interest from brands with two machines already installed and several more being readied in the supply pipeline.
Meanwhile the Uflex Asepto plant in Sanand in Gujarat has also installed its second line Heidelberg Gallus flexo line for producing aseptic liquid packaging laminates. This line which is part of the doubling of capacity at Sanand was under trial and commissioning in the second half of FY2021-22.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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