GEW's Robert Rae on the Company's UV Curing Systems for Printing, Coating and Packaging Applications

GEW (EC) Limited designs and manufactures Arc and UV LED curing systems for printing, coating and converting applications. The company is the leading manufacturer of UV systems for label and narrow web printing and is experiencing a growing global presence in sheetfed and web offset for commercial printing and packaging, as well as the wood coating market.

GEW’s UV systems are available for all new machinery, and can be retrofitted to any active press, allowing printers to breathe new life into older printing equipment. GEW has a world-class production facility at its UK headquarters, subsidiaries in the USA & Germany, and an extensive list of worldwide distributors.

GEW specialises in the design and installation of UV LED systems, having introduced its latest UV LED products, AeroLED2 and LeoLED2, in early 2024. Representing the next generation for UV LED curing, AeroLED2 and LeoLED2 offer improved electrical power, UV dose and UV irradiance specifications compared to their first-generation predecessors, and both remain compatible with GEW’s patented interchangeable ArcLED system.

AeroLED2 is GEW’s next generation air-cooled offering and eliminates the need for a chiller by air-cooling from a single remote fan, to bring UV LED within affordable reach for all. It is also newly available for wider web widths, to cater for more presses in the narrow web market.

In comparison, LeoLED2 introduces two power level options to GEW’s acclaimed water-cooled system. The regular power option offers modest gains over the original LeoLED, while maintaining backward compatibility. The high-power option, however, brings game-changing increases in UV irradiance and dose over its predecessor, delivering unprecedented performance for the most extreme curing challenges across the most demanding curing applications.

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