Jennifer Heathcote discusses UV curing for converters
Jennifer’s presentation covers a broad range of topics, from what UV curing is and the sources of UV curing, to the markets where it is relevant, and much more.
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Jennifer’s presentation covers a broad range of topics, from what UV curing is and the sources of UV curing, to the markets where it is relevant, and much more.
Updated 6th September 2021: Printing United Expo has now been cancelled by the event organisers. We look forward to exhibiting at the 2022 event in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 19-21.
CBS Printing has recently upgraded its Ryobi 754 press with a retrofitted GEW UV LED curing system, a move described by managing partner Stephen Wilson as ‘bringing an old machine back to life’.
CondAlign use a dual lamp GEW LeoLED UV curing system in the production of conductive films, which instantly cures the polymer coating and fixes the position of the aligned particles suspended within.
Watch Jennifer Heathcote’s keynote address from the IUVA World Congress, regarding the current state of mercury regulation.
GEW is now represented for sales and service in South Korea by the long-established RMGT distributor for the country, PM Trading Co.
CHROMOS Printing, part of CHROMOS Group AG, now represents GEW for all sheetfed UV curing business in Germany, Austria & Switzerland.
System number 20,000 is a four lamp configuration of GEW’s highly successful GD3 lampheads, fitted to a Gallus Labelfire press. Each lamphead has been specially anodised with a gold finish to the front.
GEW is now represented across France by DigitalEtiq. This marks the start of a new strategy in France, with one partner for all UV systems and service needs.
As a world leader in the UV curing industry, GEW proudly participated in virtual drupa 2021 and took part in two visitor web sessions, both of which can be viewed here.
Fornietic srl now fully represent GEW in Italy. The Milan-based company has a team dedicated to GEW Sales & Service, and a comprehensive stockholding of GEW spare parts for rapid delivery.
The prospect of retrofitting a busy, working press with a UV curing system can be daunting. This video explains the meticulous measurement, planning and engineering that goes into making sure every GEW UV system retrofit is right first time.
Updated 23.04.2021: GEW celebrated their 30th Anniversary in March, 2021. GEW was formed in 1991 by Gillian and Malcolm Rae, with the stated objective to ‘provide the narrow web label market with compact and efficient UV curing systems.’
GEW’s Business Development Manager, Jennifer Heathcote, has been elected as a Board Member to RadTech International North America. Jennifer has been a contributing member for over 20 years.
RMGT’s announcement affirms GEW’s position as the leading global supplier for UV curing systems across all applications.
GEW’s latest 8-lamp E4C system demonstrates the company’s specialist UV curing capabilities. Each lamp in this custom-built assembly is capable of delivering 200W/cm across its width.
GEW’s Business Development Manager, Jennifer Heathcote, has recently been presented with AIMCAL’s first ever Women’s Leadership Committee Best Paper Award.
Excimer technology utilises dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) lamps to produce quasi-monochromatic vacuum ultraviolet radiation.
Robert Rae and Jennifer Heathcote outline the key benefits of GEW’s latest LED technology. A range of GEW customers also offer their informed viewpoint, having worked with GEW UV LED systems.
Panoval’s pioneering, R&D led approach and the introduction of a state-of-the-art GEW UV system pays dividends with faster production, improved quality and competitive edge…
In one of the largest LED upgrade programs that GEW has undertaken to date, we are upgrading five Gidue web presses with new LeoLED UV systems at German label specialists ATB Etiketten.
GEW’s International Sales Manager for Sheetfed, Gary Doman, illustrates the impressive results of GEW’s LED technology.
We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Award for Innovation in the 2020 Label Industry Global Awards, for our LeoLED UV curing system.
Established in Lenexa, Kansas in 1985, J & J Printing offers a huge range of print and related services including online ordering, high volume mailing campaigns and variable data printing. Find out how LED UV curing has helped to improve their business.
GEW provides engineered UV solutions to apply very high dosages of UV energy to correctly expose and cross-link delicate materials, whilst protecting them from heat damage.
GEW manufactures conventional and LED UV solutions for lottery ticket printing. The choice of light source depends on the type of inks and coatings being used. In this example an integrated system of four UV housings be populated either with E4C mercury arc lamp or LeoLED UV LED cassettes.
Since its humble beginnings in 1989, Martin One Source has greatly expanded its business, its product range, and its customer base. In this case study, CEO Chuck Martin sums up his thoughts on LED UV and its future at Martin One Source.
GEW’s Business Development Manager, Jennifer Heathcote, joined an array of industry experts to discuss UV LED based technologies and applications, at the EPIC Online Technology Meeting.
GEW’s Remote Monitoring Service enables us to monitor the performance of our customers’ UV systems from afar. In this video, Robert Rae outlines the benefits to our customers of this technology.
Olympus Print Group has started a new round of investments which includes an innovative installation of GEW’s LeoLED UV system and a 12-color Nilpeter – Domino hybrid press with in-line foiling, now offering shrink sleeve as well as label production.
Based in Illinois, Hagg Press is a ‘Top 400 Printer’ in the USA. Their business is conducted largely through resellers and is extremely competitive. Here they discuss the GEW LED UV curing system that was retrofitted to their RMGT 10-Series press in 2018.
Push Solutions, based near Milwaukee, were one of the early adopters of LED UV curing technology and are now capitalising on the benefits of having an LED system retrofitted to their RMGT 9 Series press.
With some careful planning and a little help from our friends, we are still successfully installing new LED UV curing systems in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown. Find out more below:
GEW (EC) Limited is delighted to announce that Jennifer Heathcote has joined the GEW sales team as Business Development Manager. Jennifer has proven herself to be a leading authority on conventional and LED UV technology, as well as their use across a broad range of industrial curing applications.
KC Print is one of the leading trade printers in Ireland. Having operated with an LED UV curing system on their Ryobi press for over a year now, in this video they offer their views on what it has done for the business.
Kansas-based Phenix Label are power-users of GEW mercury arc and LED UV systems, with 44 lampheads operating on five of their presses. Phenix use ArcLED hybrid curing systems to optimise production efficiency and to reduce costs.
GEW has installed sheetfed LED UV curing systems across the USA. Push Solutions, based near Milwaukee, were one of the early adopters of the technology. Here the team at Push discuss many aspects of their new system.
GEW’s International Sales Manager Gary Doman joined Print Business Magazine’s round table discussion recently. The in-depth exchange debunked some of the myths surrounding the technology of litho printing with LED UV.
Etygraf’s core production process is flexographic printing with low migration inks. The production team use GEW’s ArcLED hybrid UV curing system to run infrared, Mercury arc and LED UV lampheads on the same press.
Robert Rae, GEW Director and technology development specialist, has been recognised as the label industry’s ‘Rising Star’ at the Label Industry Global Awards 2019.
Label suppliers to the automotive and chemical industries, TS Etiketten specialise in flexo print, screen print and rotary die-cutting, This study looks at how they have moved into working with GEW LED UV curing systems.
This customer case study, at PakMarkas in Lithuania, illustrates how the company is using a combination of LED UV & electron beam curing to get impressive results.
GEW has released a new ‘Customer Spotlight’ case study video which highlights the benefits of UV curing for narrow-web label presses, from customer PrintAvia Aviation AG.
GEW is exhibiting at Label Summit Latin America, which gets underway next week in Medellin, Colombia. The company has UV curing system installations across the region and will be present in Medellin once more, to build upon this successful market.
GEW’s Customer Spotlight video focuses on LED UV curing for sheetfed offset printing, highlighting the many advantages of this technology.
GEW will be exhibiting its full range of UV curing systems for the coating and converting industries, at ICE Europe 2019. The Munich show runs from 12th -14th March and GEW will be there in Hall A5, at Stand 1710.
GEW will be collaborating with many other market-leaders and industry pioneers to present an innovative and highly informative conference event this April, in Florence, Italy. Label & Packaging Innovation will unveil breakthrough inventions & technologies in printing and converting.
GEW has published a second customer case study video focusing on LED UV curing systems for sheetfed offset printing, which enable the customer to print on plastics and other difficult substrates.
The next stop in GEW’s busy calendar of international exhibitions is Labelexpo India, in New Delhi. The GEW team are on Stand H9 and the show runs from 22-25 November at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida.
A record number of GEW UV curing systems were in operation at this year’s Labelexpo Americas, with GEW lampheads running on the majority of the leading manufacturers’ presses at the show.