About us
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.
Service & Spares
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GEW UV curing systems & products
GEW has an array of UV lamp and LED products to meet almost any printing or converting need. All products can be integrated seamlessly by GEW to fit your machine. Find out more…
UV LED systems
UV LED systems are the future of UV curing; GEW’s products are unmatched in performance and value throughout the industry…
UV lamp systems
Mercury lamp systems are an efficient, long-established UV light source for industrial processes and they’re still growing in use today…
Excimer systems
Excimer lamps produce vacuum ultraviolet radiation for various applications and can be easily integrated onto machinery up to 2.55m wide.
Laboratory units
GEW designs and builds stand-alone UV laboratory units, perfect for research and development facilities or press room ink proofing…
GEW Return on Investment (ROI) calculator
With rising energy costs, switching to GEW UV LED systems can dramatically reduce your energy usage whilst also reducing CO2 emissions for a positive environmental impact.
Unsure which UV curing system is best for you?
Browse our Applications section for guidance:
Commercial printing
An ever-expanding print communications market segment encompassing catalogues, manuals, advertising, menus, stationery, and all other products where the print is the primary product function.
Label converting
UV cured inks, coatings and adhesives are used to create highly decorative, durable and functional product labels that offer brighter and bolder colours than other printing methods. Find out more via the button below…
Package converting
Packaging converters use GEW UV to produce materials that protect, contain, preserve, and dispense the primary product while also making items easier to handle, transport, store, and use.
Sheetfed offset
The sheetfed offset, or offset lithographic (litho), printing process is known as offset because the image is ‘offset’ from the lithographic plates to the blanket, before finally going onto the paper. Find out more…
Direct to product decoration
Graphics and text are printed and cured on various manufactured items including rigid plastic, glass, and metal packaging; consumer and industrial goods; and promotional ad specialty items.
Industrial coating, converting & finishing
GEW is a specialist producer of highly efficient UV curing systems for coating, converting & finishing applications. Find out more…
Specialist UV systems
GEW offer a dedicated service for SUV systems, which are typically large UV installations featuring heavily customised integration work to suit the customer’s machine and process.
Wood coating
GEW has UV LED, mercury arc and excimer solutions for wood coating applications. Wood coating refers to the process of applying a protective layer to wood surfaces to enhance their durability, appearance, and performance.
More about GEW
A brief history
GEW was formed in March 1991 by Gillian and Malcolm Rae, to provide the narrow web label market with compact, efficient air-cooled UV curing systems…
The show must go on
GEW is present at all major professional trade shows and exhibitions in the label, coating, converting and sheetfed printing industries. Come and meet the team…
Making the headlines
With a global presence and market-leading, innovative products, GEW is constantly in the news. Find out more about our latest happenings…
