News, GEW installations

Panoval Label’s pioneering, R&D led approach 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 systems at German label specialists…

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…

GEW can provide 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 and are now really…

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…

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…

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’s Customer Spotlight video focuses on LED UV curing for sheetfed offset printing, highlighting the many advantages of this technology.

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…

GEW has recently published a customer case study video which highlights the LW2 LED UV curing system. In the video, GEW customer C & D Print Media outline their…

UK-based Abbey Labels has installed its second MPS EF 340 press, which is the first in Europe fitted with the GEW ArcLED UV system.

EADEC in Spain acquired a new Mark Andy P5 flexo press comprising eight GEW E2C UV lampheads with GEW RHINO electronic power supplies.

Phenix Label of Olathe, Kansas have installed an additional OMET flexo UV printing press with LED UV from GEW to boost reliability and production speed.

Etygraf in Spain have installed a new Bobst M4L flexo printing press fitted with an LED UV curing system from GEW, to boost efficiency and curing performance.

Folex Coating in Cologne, Germany have added a GEW-made 170cm-wide NUVA2 UV system to their principal coating line. Folex is a coating and finishing specialist converting a wide variety…

Caldicot Metal Decorating have upgraded two of their presses, a Crabtree FastReady 4-colour press and a 4-colour KBA MetalStar, with high performance GEW UV curing systems to improve reliability…

Olympus Print have equipped their Nilpeter FA-4 presses with GEW E2C UV systems and have realised power savings and achieve UV lamp durabilities in excess of 5000 hours.

Likora GmbH in Germany upgraded an existing gravure printing line with a GEW NUVA2 UV system to save energy and to improve the efficiency of their operation.

Indonesian label converter PT Aneka Rupa Tera has equipped its Comco label press with GEW UV curing for increased production efficiency and improved reliability. PT Aneka Rupa Tera…

OPM Group in Leeds has detailed the benefits it has seen since deploying GEW’s hybrid ArcLED UV curing technology. Last year, OPM acquired a customized configuration of a…

OPM Group in Leeds have installed an additional Nilpeter printing press with GEW ArcLED hybrid UV curing to boost energy savings and to extend their commercial offer. OPM…

GEW UV curing enables silicone coating of release liners in a much more compact footprint than using traditional thermal drying methods. The very compact nature of the GEW…

UV curing enables the safer and faster application of a wide variety of coatings on metal profiles and metal extrusions to protect them against corrosion. In this example,…

In this specialised clean room application, the manufacturing process of OLED displays requires exposing the products while being manipulated in a glove box. The surface to be exposed…

Certoplast Technische Klebebänder GmbH in Wuppertal upgraded an existing adhesive coating line in order to save energy and to improve the overall efficiency of their operation. Certoplast Technische…

UV curing enables reliable, faster and more consistent production of substrates with varnish coatings. The video illustrates how wide-web converters can benefit from GEW’s fully air-cooled NUVA2 UV systems. The…

GEW has developed a high efficiency fully air-cooled arc lamp solution of the UV technology typically used to cure coatings on optical fibre and wire at speeds in excess of…

Bizerba in Germany have installed a new MPS printing press with GEW nitrogen-inerted UV curing to boost production capacity and overall efficiency.

DERSCHLAG Folienverarbeitung in Germany has equipped its Gallus EM 410 with GEW UV curing to boost energy savings and their production efficiency. DERSCHLAG GmbH & Co. KG Folienverarbeitung…

RAKO-Group counts as one of the largest manufacturers of self-adhesive labels in Europe. The group consists of 18 companies operating in domains as diverse as labels, flexible packing,…

Amherst Label Inc. of Milford, New Hampshire, has upgraded an existing Nilpeter printing press with a GEW UV curing system to boost speed and overall efficiency. In May…

CINCINNATI, OH—Nilpeter is the first press manufacturer to install GEW’s new ArcLED hybrid UV curing system. It will be installed on three FA-4* UV flexo presses, which are…

Nilpeter has sold three FA-4* UV flexo presses with GEW’s new ArcLED, making it the first press manufacturer to install units with the new hybrid UV curing system.…

MPS is the first narrow web press manufacturer to show the new GEW hybrid UV LED system, which will be integrated with the next-generation EF Neo flexo printing…

The Dutch company Decolabel have installed an additional UV printing press to boost the reliability of their production and their overall efficiency. Decolabel bv is a family-run business…

The US subsidiary of British UV systems manufacturer GEW has installed a specialist configuration of a UV curing system, comprising an NUVA2 high-efficiency UV upgrade with a working…

Specialist flexible label printer Coveris has upgraded a Mark Andy 4150 flexo press with an energy-efficient UV curing system from GEW featuring 10 E2C lampheads and their associated…

Specialist flexible label printer Coveris has upgraded its Mark Andy 4150 flexo press with an energy-efficient GEW UV curing system. Coveris Flexibles UK Limited operate from their site…

Suzhou Advanced Printing (‘Suzhou Advanced’) is one of the fastest growing converters in the Chinese label printing industry. From the establishment of its factory in 2001, the company…

Over the last three years, Olympus Labels – one of the UK’s leading privately held label converters – has embarked on a major program of investment in high-end…

Reflex Labels has seen spectacular savings in energy usage with the implementation of a new UV curing system. Andy Thomas reports. With six label manufacturing sites across the…

UV curing systems manufacturer GEW are launching a range of new efficient UV systems designed to reduce running costs and extend production capabilities of both analogue and digital…

Production at the AB Graphic International factory in Bridlington, East Yorkshire was temporarily suspended to celebrate the arrival of the 10,000th UV curing system manufactured by UV supplier…

October 2009. GEW has announced the supply of 15 UV lamp heads to Impresora Silvaform, SA De CV, Mexico, for a UV upgrade to four of its web…

GEW (E.C.) Limited, a specialist manufacturer of UV curing systems since 1991, is pleased to announce the supply of a nitrogen-inerted nanotechnology UV curing system to Suncoat GmbH…

August 2007. UV systems manufacturer, GEW (EC) Ltd. has revealed figures on CO2 emissions with cost savings to date based on the supply of its e-Brick electronic UV…

GEW (EC) Limited announce the supply of an air cooled eight lamp UV curing line to Systems Labelling Limited, Flintshire. The VCP system supplied is an upgrade to…

June 2006. GEW (EC) Limited has supplied Daventry based label printer, Multi Labels with a 470mm (18.5”) wide electronically powered UV curing system. Complete with eight vCP lamp…

The Soma Flex MINI UV press is used to print and convert high quality, flexible packaging and shrink sleeve labels in PE, PP and similar thermo-sensitive extensible substrates…

States Art Dewley of The John Henry Company: “We have to print and convert virtually all available substrates and our 10 color press just did not have the…

States Malcolm Rae, Managing Director of GEW “Specific silicon release chemistries for self-adhesive label stock require a very low oxygen environment to achieve critical levels of adhesive cross…

States Peter Peace, Press Room Manager at Polestar : “The printing of magazines today has become extremely competitive. We needed to increase the production speed of our press…

The UV curing system on the CI press comprises eight water-cooled UV lamp-heads; seven after each print station around the CI drum with an eighth unit on a…

The press was originally supplied in 2002 with a standard VCP UV system from GEW. In 2004 the need to print and convert heat sensitive films arose and…

Brad Cohn, President of Precision Label, comments: “The VCP is very well engineered and fits well into a very tight space. The performance we get from it outpaces…

States Alan Mills, UK Sales Manager for GEW, “We worked closely with the customer over a specified period of time to put in place a program to up-grade…

States Chris Nuttall, GEW Sales Manager UK Midlands & North, “Lancastrian Labels informed us of the need to improve the UV Curing capability on their 330 mm (13…