The company recently inaugurated a new state-of-the-art greenfield production facility in Palej, near Vadodara. Among other machineries, it has installed the Rotomec RS 4003 press and Titan SR8 slitting and rewinding machine from the Bobst group.|

The new plant produces laminated structures for flexible packaging in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, lubricants and chemicals industries.

"We opted for the gravure printing route rather than flexo, which suited the Indian requirement," said Shashwata Dutta, vice-president and business head at Tuflex India.

Tuflex looked for options available in the market and after careful study chose the Bobst group as one of its preferred suppliers to kick-start its operations.

"Rotomec is a world leader in gravure printing technology for flexible packaging materials and Titan is one of the best slitter rewinders in the business and we wanted the highest quality and best performance available," Dutta explained.

The Rotomec now in production at Tuflex is printing a wide range of flexible substrates in standard web widths at high production speeds while the Titan is capable of running at speeds up to 700m/min (2300ft/min) and the slit widths can be below 25mm (1in).

"Bobst Group is a very customer-oriented company with a clear vision. Our entire project was managed very professionally. The service from Bobst India has been excellent and timely. For us, going with Rotomec and Titan was a very important decision as we needed a supplier who would support and assist us in achieving our objectives," Dutta further explained.

The new Tuflex India plant is a major step forward in the company's business history and comprises blown film production, co-extrusion coating, high quality gravure printing, laminating, precise flush-cut slitting and rewinding and international quality pouching.

The Murugappa group has a presence in 12 Indian states, the UK, USA, Australia, Canada, South Africa, the UAE and other countries, with a workforce of more than 30,000.