RMGT announces UV LED partnership with GEW

Ryobi MHI Graphic Technology Ltd. (RMGT) has announced it is partnering with GEW and will be factory-fitting the LeoLED UV curing system to all of its new sheetfed offset machines with immediate effect.

RMGT pioneered UV LED technology and introduced the world’s first LED curing system for sheetfed printing at drupa in 2008.

Now after many months of investigations of all major UV LED manufacturers, RMGT has formally adopted the GEW product as its definitive new solution.

This original innovation has started a slow revolution for the printing industry, one that is now gathering pace.

RMGT president Katsushi Hirokawa said the company’s indepth knowledge of UV curing technology enabled it to make a sound judgement with the GEW product.

Ryobi MHI Graphic Technology Ltd president Katsushi Hirokawa

“RMGT is committed to building relationships of trust with customers, peripheral device manufacturers and all others involved in the industry. We continually work with our partners to refine and perfect technologies, and to bring innovative new products to the world of printing.

“Inspired by this corporate philosophy, we have pioneered LED UV and it is our in-depth experience and knowledge of this technology that has enabled us to make a sound judgment about our future UV curing partner.”

GEW is well known for its dominance in the label and narrow web arena and now has 30 years’ experience supporting all the major machine manufacturers, providing a strong base from which to expand into the offset business.

The 2019 introduction of GEW’s compact, high performance LeoLED UV curing system, which is well suited to sheetfed applications, drew attention from RMGT’s distribution network and this led to the first test installation at the company’s headquarters in Hiroshima, in early 2020.

Exhaustively tested

The LeoLED system has been exhaustively tested on several presses, in multiple configurations and GEW says the results surpassed all existing performance criteria.

GEW managing director of sales Robert Rae said the announcement affirms GEW as the leading supplier globally for UV LED curing systems.

GEW managing director – sales Robert Rae

“Our latest LeoLED system offers a very high power and is used in one form for all markets and applications,” Rae said.

“This means that it is produced in high volumes, bringing outstanding reliability at a highly competitive cost. In a sheetfed environment, GEW’s Modular Lamp Array (MLA) allows any number of lamps to be positioned and quickly moved anywhere throughout the press.

“This means the same LeoLED product can be used for low, medium and high-performance applications but arranged in single, double or triple MLA configuration dependent upon the application and speed requirements – always guaranteeing performance. It is this concept that appealed to RMGT, both for ultimate reliability and for the flexibility of configurations across their wide range of presses.”

Reliability guaranteed

GEW have built a reputation for engineering and manufacturing UV systems to exacting standards, assembling and fully testing every UV system before despatch.

But what the manufacturer also offers is a unique IoT remote monitoring system which reports all running conditions live and for the full service history of the system.

This means service support specialists can easily detect and correct out of tolerance parameters and send remote updates anywhere in the world, guaranteeing the fastest and most precise service response in the industry.

Easily adaptable system

The ability to easily adapt system configurations was a key consideration for RMGT.

GEW LeoLED UV Lamphead is water-cooled with a compact 40mm x 100mm profile and can be customised to seamlessly integrated into any sheetfed press

Gary Doman, international sales manager for sheetfed at GEW, explains the company’s solution: “Multiple lamps are a requirement in more complex applications and being able to move lamps around the press is a huge advantage for various processes. GEW lamps are designed with this in mind and users can easily move lamps from the delivery to any interdeck position and back again. For coatings and other more demanding applications, the ‘Modular Lamp Array’ is used and offers more power, exactly where and when it is needed.”

For more information about the technology, please visit www.gewuv.com.

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