Ashok Chaturvedi, Uflex
Ashok Chaturvedi, chairman and managing director of UFlex

UFlex, the Noida-headquartered global packaging film, materials, consumables, and equipment manufacturer, has released its results for the financial year ended on 31 March 2021 on a highly positive note. The company’s sales rose to Rs 8,890 crore (approximately US$ 1.2 billion) in FY 2020-21 in comparison to the slight dip the company experienced in the previous year’s sales at Rs 7,404 crore. (FY 2018-19 sales were at Rs 7,957 crore.) In addition, its net profit has more than doubled to Rs 843 crore (approximately US$ 114 million) in FY 2020-21 from Rs 370 in FY 2019-20, an increase of 127.8%. The company was in the midst of expansion in several activities when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Despite the total lockdown from 25 March 2020, it maintained operations throughout as a supplier to the essential goods supply chain. In addition, it produced PPG and sanitizer and new format containers for sanitizers from consumer product companies in the early days of the pandemic. Throughout the year it kept on developing packaging materials and formats, improved its filling…

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Naresh Khanna
Editor of Indian Printer and Publisher since 1979 and Packaging South Asia since 2007. Trained as an offset printer and IBM 360 computer programmer. Active in the movement to implement Indian scripts for computer-aided typesetting. Worked as a consultant and trainer to the Indian print and newspaper industry. Visiting faculty of IDC at IIT Powai in the 1990s. Also founder of IPP Services, Training and Research and has worked as its principal industry researcher since 1999. Author of book: Miracle of Indian Democracy. Elected vice-president of the International Packaging Press Organization in May 2023. One of the judges for Packaging Sustainability Awards 2024 and 2025.