GEW’s Diverse Product Range Strengthened by New Launch

UK-based curing systems manufacturer GEW will introduce a ground-breaking new UV LED system at drupa 2024, adding to the company’s already diverse product portfolio. While GEW will feature its full product range, it will focus on its latest LED systems for sheetfed offset and industrial printing applications. Due to the breadth of its product range across both UV Arc and UV LED curing technologies, GEW is uniquely placed in the UV curing market and can offer a solution for almost every printing, coating, and converting application.

In the years since drupa in 2016, GEW has become a significant force in UV curing for sheetfed offset presses and has built an enviable reputation as a leader in the field. GEW has manufactured and installed hundreds of sheetfed UV curing systems globally and has many years of experience designing bespoke systems for every major make and model in this sector. GEW’s Design and Engineering teams use state-of-the-art measurement and 3D modeling technology to ensure that every UV system installation is seamlessly integrated within the press to which it is fitted. This same systematic approach is applied to all GEW installations, whether for commercial print or packaging machinery.

GEW is uniquely placed in the UV curing market due to the diversity of its product range across both UV Arc and UV LED curing technologies. | Credit: GEW

While GEW is the market leader in the Label and Narrow Web sector, the company is also highly active in the mid-web and wide-web arena. GEW has designed and installed a vast range of UV systems up to 2.5m wide worldwide and has a specialist team dedicated to the bespoke design of complex, large-scale industrial UV curing solutions. This encompasses an enormous range of applications such as UV hot melt, siliconization, wide web offset & flexo, excimer mattification, direct-to-product decoration, and wood coating. GEW’s full team of UV specialists will be on hand at drupa, ready to discuss customers’ individual requirements.

GEW will also highlight its renowned ‘ArcLED’ technology at drupa, whereby UV Arc and UV LED lamp heads can be quickly interchanged on a press. ArcLED capability is available for almost every type of GEW system installation, whether for sheetfed offset, narrow web, mid, or wide web machinery, and across a broad range of applications. This technology has been used to great effect in many sheetfed press installations, enabling the printer to switch between Arc or LED in both the interdeck and delivery positions to suit the individual requirements of each print job. With ArcLED, both Arc and LED cassettes are compatible with the same power supply and fit in the same housing for ease. GEW’s RHINO power control system automatically recognizes the lamp type and switches the power supply accordingly.

A further benefit of ArcLED is that it enables the customer to invest in any combination of Arc and LED in the short term, safe in the knowledge that the investment is future proofed. The UV system configuration can be altered or fully upgraded to LED at a later date with minimal disruption.

Robert Rae, Managing Director of Sales at GEW, comments: “Our UV systems are renowned for their intelligent design, reliability, and energy efficiency, which sets them apart as the default choice for many in the industry, whether for OEMs or retrofitted installations. This will be highlighted at drupa by the number of GEW systems in operation at various OEM stands all around the show, and this in itself speaks volumes about why visitors should stop off at the GEW stand.”

He concludes: “We have so much to offer the customer across such a broad range of applications and with such precisely targeted solutions. We have installed around 25,000 systems globally, which is backed up with over 30 years of experience in the field. With this in mind, we are looking forward to welcoming old and new customers to our stand and having the opportunity to outline what GEW can do for them.”