Empowering global brands with sustainable packaging chemistry: Desh Deepak Misra, Joint President, UFlex Chemicals Business

UFlex Ltd. Chemicals Business has evolved into a complete, innovation-driven solutions provider catering to flexible packaging, printing inks, coatings, adhesives, and specialty polymer segments. Today our portfolio includes fluid inks, UV inks, aqueous systems, specialty coatings, solvent-based products-less adhesives, and cutting-edge chemical intermediates serving both domestic and international markets.

Our manufacturing infrastructure is supported by dedicated R&D, consumption laboratories, integrated production systems, and stringent condition regulation practices that enable us to cater to diverse sector standards across FMCG, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, personal care, and manufacturing packaging sectors.

Going forward, we are pursuing an aggressive expansion roadmap focused on three strategic pillars — sustainable product innovation, global market expansion, and cutting-edge manufacturing excellence. We are actively scaling capacities to aqueous inks, solvent-based products-less adhesives, specialty coatings, and environmentally responsible chemistries while strengthening our export footprint across key international markets.

Simultaneously, we continue to invest in automation, process digitalization, supply chain resilience, and customer-focused technical service capabilities to build a future-ready and globally competitive chemicals business.

How would you explain performance of UFlex Chemicals business in 2025 and expectations from 2026?

2025 has been a resilient and progressive year to chemicals business despite ongoing macroeconomic uncertainties, geopolitical disruptions, and evaporative raw material trends globally. We witnessed healthy demand across sustainable packaging consumables, particularly in aqueous systems, specialty coatings, and high-performance adhesive solutions. A major contributor to our development has been our customer-centric innovation approach, where we work closely with converters, packaging companies, and global brands to develop customized, regulation-compliant, and commercially viable solutions. Our focus is on condition, consistency, technical responsiveness, and supply reliability has further strengthened prolonged customer relationships across markets.

to 2026, we remain highly optimistic and development-oriented. We expect accelerated momentum driven by growing global preference to sustainable packaging chemistries, rising adoption of eco-friendly ink systems, expansion in value-added specialty items, and stronger export demand from emerging and developed markets alike. Exports and international specialty business are expected to remain among fastest-growing segments within chemicals portfolio as multinational brands increasingly develop reliable, innovation-led, and globally compliant partners.