Uflex inaugurates robotic laser engraving line at Noida facility

In printing industry, precision and efficiency cannot be emphasised enough. In order to offer infallible printing consistency to its converting clients, flexible packaging company Uflex Limited has joined hands with Japan’s Think Lab to set up a fully-automatic robotic laser engraving line for manufacturing rotogravure cylinders at its 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 exists a 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.