UV LED curing systems are ideal for the UV curing of inks in a variety of applications. UV LED technology offers increased productivity, operating economics, and sustainability for these applications.

Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics performs many different types of testing in the narrow web market, centered around flexographic printing and the different processes within that market.

If you are a narrow web converter interested in UV LED curing, this article will explain why LED technology is the right choice for all label and package printing applications. We will start by highlighting all the benefits brought to converters when they upgrade from traditional mercury UV curing to Phoseon LED technology. We will also discuss why UV LED outperforms for some of the more challenging applications such as opaque whites, dense blacks and metallic, laminating and cold foil adhesives.

When Central Valley Labels switched to printing using Phoseon UV LED solutions, it discovered that it could cut production times in half, reduce unproductive downtime and save money on maintenance and energy.

Simon Roberts took over as MD of Integration Technology, specialists in UV Curing, around 18 months ago after nearly 20 years in the automotive and other industrial sectors. We catch up with him to find out how things have been going in this particularly challenging year, and to hear more about the exciting new products that they have launched and their plans for 2021.