Uflex is also setting up another plant in Wrzesnia in Poland with an investment of around Rs 360-crore. The Poland facility capacity will be around 30,000 MTPA and is expected to be operationalised in June 2012.

1. REFLEXIONSJune 2015
ULEX WINS PRESTIGIOUS DUPONT PACKAGING
INNOVATION AWARD
UFLEX has won a prestigious DuPont Packaging Innovation Award for 2015. The winning entry was our Safepack Bag
for packaging of cement, which won a Silver Award.
The award is given out by leading Packaging Resins manufacturer DuPont and is the longest running independently
judged annual international competition for Packaging Innovation. It is one of the most coveted awards in the global
Packaging industry.
This year, the judges evaluated 140 entries from 25 countries before awarding the winners for excellence in technological
development, responsible packaging and enhanced user experience. According to the judges, “This year’s winners
stand out as leaders in packaging innovation”.
Safepack is a special stand-up bag system that was developed to address a long-standing problem faced by the Indian
cement industry – that of moisture and water entering 50 kg. cement bags during transportation and storage causing
the product to deteriorate due to lump formation. The loss due to this problem is estimated at over 3% of all product

2. packaged and sold by the industry. The bag is a hermetically sealed flat-bottom woven polypropylene (WPP) bag. To
address this problem, the industry sometimes used a loose polyethylene liner inside the bag, which was both costly
and greatly reduced rates of packaging output. Safepack can also be printed with high-quality graphics in up to 10
colours using high-definition reverse rotogravure printing.
The bag laminate structure is put through a special nano embossing and finishing operation after extrusion coating the
inner surface of the bag and this provides its technological USP – it provides minute holes for de-aeration during the
filling and packaging operation for evacuation of air and speedy filling while, at the same time, providing a high level of
barrier against ingress of moisture and water into the bag during distribution and storage after packaging. ..
The awards were announced and given away at a special function and our award was received on our behalf by Mr.
Anantshree Chaturvedi.
The accompanying photographs were taken at the award ceremony and show the award-winning package.

3. DuPont Award

4. STEP FORWARD, a new employee engagement programme has been initiated at our Mexico plant to facilitate
Motivation. Motivation is what drives people towards goals and what keeps them going when the going becomes
tough. This is an employee engagement program with an objective of building a culture of ownership, innovation and
executional excellence. The workshops under this program are targeted to create an attitude of respect, dedication
and belonging to the organisation and to have a ‘can do’ attitude i.e look beyond problems, be innovative and creative
in problem solving.
The program is planned to cover all employees, and, so far, around 300 employees have already been covered in 6
batches; the last batch of 26 employees is also going to be trained shortly.
The program is being conducted by well known trainer Mr. Raul Eduardo of Innovad Consultants and is receiving a very
positive response and good feedback from employees.
In one of the workshops for middle management, Mr. Pradeep Tyle interacted with participants and shared his
perspectives on employee motivation and ownership at work.
The accompanying photographs were taken during the sessions.
STEP FORWARD – EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME
AT MEXICO PLANT

5. STEP FORWARD

6. MR. SIRSAMKAR HOSTS CELEBRATORY LUNCH AT POLAND
To celebrate the exemplary performance by the team at our Poland plant, Mr. P. L. Sirsamkar hosted a special
celebratory lunch on the 3rd of April 2015.
The following pictures were taken during the event.