INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CROSS CULTURAL RESEARCH AND

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

ICccR & HRM
UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU, JAMMU

REPORT ON
INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO UFLEX LTD.,
BARI BRAHMANA, JAMMU

SUBMITTED BY:

NAME- PRANAY GUPTA

ROLL NO. - 0007MBIB19
COURSE TITLE- INDUSTRIAL VISIT
COURSE CODE- PSIBTR216
SUBMITTED TO- DR. ISHA SHARMA
 REPORT ON
INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO UFLEX LTD.,
BARI BRAHMANA, JAMMU

The Industrial visit to UFLEX Ltd. Bari Brahmana, Jammu was organized by International
Centre for Cross Cultural Research and Human Resource Management (ICccR & HRM),
University of Jammu, Jammu. The visit was scheduled on 26 February, 2020 at UFLEX Ltd.,
Bari Brahmana, Jammu.
 ABOUT UFLEX

UFLEX is India’s largest flexible packaging company with headquarters in Noida, the

National Capital Region of Delhi. With three manufacturing facilities, UFLEX supplies

to a majority of customers in India and also to multinational companies across the

globe. With a strong presence in North America, Europe, Africa, South East Asia and

the Middle East, UFLEX has established itself as the largest  flexible packaging

manufacturer and exporter. UFLEX has its manufacturing capacity of over 135000 TPA

with plants is located in Noida and Jammu.

UFLEX offers an extensive product range in flexible packaging and laminated roll

stock. Some of the products of our portfolio include a wide variety of pouches inclusive

of 3D and 4D pouches with re-closable options, wicketed bags for baby and hygiene

markets with handle, pet food pinch bottom bags, cement block bottom bags,  Flexi-

tubes, lids, confectionery foils, embossed foils, hygiene films, innolock pouches, pocket

PTC zipper, spot embossing, electron beam curing, Cast ‘n’ Cure technologies etc. We

provide flexible pouch packaging solutions under the brand “Zip Pouch '' that can be

used to store food in refrigerators at home or carry food for lunch at school.

Owing to the full backward integration into films (BOPET, BOPP, CPP, Metalized

Films), Chemicals (Inks, Coatings, Adhesives), Engineering (Converting & Packing

Equipments), Holography (Films, Labels) and Cylinders (Electronic, Laser and

Flexographic Plates), UFLEX has an exclusive advantage to deliver customized

solutions to customers.
 VISION

"Be a leading company and preferred supplier for providing flexible

packaging solutions to customers across the world maximizing value for all
stakeholders"

MISSION

"To meet customers’ dynamic packaging needs by providing innovative,

productive, cost-effective, optimised and eco-friendly packaging solutions,
continually adding value to their business."

At UFLEX, we interacted with the management and team of UFLEX Ltd. and we learnt

about the working of the company, the complete process of packaging and besides some
important life and career lessons. We interacted with few of the officials which are as

follows:

 S. Barari (Sr. Vice President)

 Brijesh Rathore ( Sr. GM)

 Shumon Deb ( AGM )

 Vikram Charak( AM)

 Ratneshkumar( AM)

They discussed with us about their capacity and volume of producing the goods , how they

carry on their packaging process and how managed their workforce is. They explained us

about their supply chain also.

DISCUSSION ON MARKETING SUPPORT

UFLEX with its wide product range and expertise offers a one-stop solution for Flexible

Packaging products both in India as well as for International customers. Their marketing

team has in-depth knowledge and experience in understanding customer needs and

offering them appropriate solutions depending. The Marketing Team is always abreast

with new product developments and interacts with customers on an ongoing basis by

participating in exhibitions, fairs and seminars both in India and globally.

UFLEX offers extensive training both in-house and external for knowledge update on

various aspects of Flexible Packaging.

Marketing is backed by a strong Research and Development Team with experts in

Polymers, Prepress, Converting Technologies and Technical Services offering total

solutions. UFLEX has major touch points with customers on a continuous basis

providing seamless information flow and service with the shortest turnaround time.
FOCUS ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

UFLEX believes in Environmental Sustainability and has taken several key initiatives in

India towards reducing Carbon Foot Print and Improving Productivity. UFlex has

constantly invested in newer technologies which consume less energy per Ton of

Flexible Packaging. All in-house wastages are recycled and ploughed back in to the life

cycle to reduce pressure on landfills thereby arresting pollution. The team at UFLEX

Jammu informed us about 6 pronged sustainability initiatives undertaken. these include:

 Lowering Carbon Footprint

 Using Renewable Resources in Manufacturing

 Recycling Wastages

 Energy Efficient Production Technologies

 Reducing Plastic consumption

 Encouraging Green Polymers

DISCUSSION ON WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT AT UFLEX

UFLEX is a dynamic Indian multinational. It takes pride in being a world class player in

technology, innovation and product development in our industry segment. It attributes

tremendous growth of past over two decades to the commitment, ability and relentless

efforts of its people.

UFLEX basically comprises of committed, high caliber, passionate professionals who

have contributed, developed and grown with them. Their management style combines the

wisdom of Indian Culture with the best global practices. To compete in the global

market, they focus on attracting the best talent and offer a corporate culture in which

every person can excel.

UFLEX philosophy is based on our strong determination for growth, perpetual innovation

and good corporate citizenship.

DISCUSSION ON LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF EMPLOYEES:

UFLEX attributes its substantial growth to the commitment & competencies of its

people. With the motto of ‘Learn, Engage & Develop’ they focus on providing

development opportunities & career growth path to their employees with a holistic

framework of functional, behavioral, general management & leadership development

programs.

In an endeavor to bring the best out of every member of the organization, they

continuously partner with top of the line training agencies, institutes & industry bodies

and invest in continual learning & development of people.

At UFLEX, their learning vision is to create a learning culture in the organization.

Learning in UFLEX is a combination of on-the-job experiences, relationship based and

education based opportunities and employees are encouraged to leverage the

opportunities.

In addition to this, they have training interventions designed for different levels like

Operators, Junior Management, Middle Management, Senior Management and Top

Leadership and categories of employees like Production, Marketing, and Finance etc.

They support the specific business requirements across divisions like operational

Excellence, Sales and Marketing Excellence, Business Focused Team Alignment

Interventions, Goal Setting Workshops etc.

Then they took us to visit their plant into different groups consisting of faculty and students

where we got to know the exact functioning and working of UFLEX.

After taking all the precautionary measures and proper sanitization we entered the plant

where we learnt about their production capabilities and how they make labels for different

products of different companies.

After visiting their premises we were offered refreshment consisting of local dogri cuisine

and at the end they greeted us.

AT THE END OF THE SESSION…