Uflex offshoot also reports ‘big trend’ to EDP film
Germany Flex Films, the film manufacturing arm of Uflex, showed a wide range of new products and applications at Interpack including alternatives to nylon film.
Anantshree Chaturvedi, vice chairman and CEO of Flex Films International, said the company had showcased its high-barrier nylon replacement films. “Nylon as a substrate has had a very high price volatility in the past two years,” he said.
“It is going through a cyclical shift in the marketplace where nylon barriers were used just for the sake of being used. What we are doing is presenting alternates to that and showing people that you should buy and use the optimum barrier you want so that you don’t overengineer or under-engineer a packaging product just for the sake of a specification. Some of our barrier films provide that opportunity.”
He also noted “a big trend towards [the company’s] EDP film, the HP digital print film”. “Digital as a concept has been moving fast but I haven’t seen it pick up as yet, especially in the Asian countries,” he added.