Global Film Processor Sets Sights on U.S. Growth – Plastics Technology writes about Flex Films

 

BOPP Films

Jim Callari Editorial Director, Plastics Technology

With six plants in four continents, Flex Films’ strategy is to offer highly customized, ‘holistic’ solutions in BOPET, BOPP, and specialized films and coatings.

The global film manufacturing arm of Uflex Ltd., India’s largest multinational flexible packaging company, Flex Films has set up shop in North America with an eye toward expansion. With the opening of a greenfield plant in Elizabethtown, Ken. In 2013, the firm has state-of-the-art film manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa with cumulative production capacity in excess of 337,000 metric tons/yr.

Flex Films has been selling in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, first out of Charlotte, then Houston. It’s 180,000 ft² plant in Kentucky houses an 8.7-meter line producing biaxially oriented PET (BOPET), as well as systems for metallizing and coating. The facility can room for four more lines, says Anantshree Chaturverdi, Flex Films’ vice chairman and CEO. Uflex was founded in 1984 by Chaturverdi’s dad, who he said is considered “the father of the flexible packaging industry in India.”

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