Uflex to Set Up ₹71.5 Crore BOPP Film Manufacturing Line at Dharwad, Karnataka
Uflex Limited is setting up a new Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) film manufacturing line at Dharwad, Karnataka. The line will have a capacity of 54,000 MTPA and involves a total capital expenditure of ₹71.5 crore, as disclosed in the company's Q1FY26 investor presentation covering meetings held on June 29-30, 2026.
The Dharwad project forms part of the company's ongoing capacity expansion across its packaging films and resins portfolio. Uflex operates 18 manufacturing facilities across 9 countries, with a combined installed capacity of over 1.4 million MTPA spanning resins, base packaging films, inks and adhesives, holography, flexible packaging and aseptic liquid packaging.
Separately, under its 'Project Plastic Fix' sustainability initiative, Uflex commissioned a new recycling unit in Noida Sector 155 on April 30, 2026, with a capacity of 36,000 MTPA for recycled PET (rPET) chips and 3,600 MTPA for recycled multi-layer packaging (rMLP) material. The company incurred capital expenditure of ₹69.7 crore on this Noida recycling unit during Q4 FY26.
The company also spent ₹100.9 crore on an aseptic packaging facility in Egypt and ₹48 crore on a WPP (woven polypropylene) bag manufacturing unit in Mexico during the same quarter, as part of its broader international capacity build-out. Total capital expenditure across all these facilities in Q4 FY26 stood at ₹707 crore.