124 | Labelexpo Americas 2022Illumina LED Curing System and 300 Series Inks, a two-part system consisting of an LED curing unit and specially formulated LED inks that easily convert existing water-based or UV fexo presses to boost productivity and reduce energy costs by 86 to 95 percent.The company also shows its Flenex Water-Wash plates and processors. The plates are 100 percent solvent-free and provide high quality at fast production times while lowering cost-in-use compared to thermal, solvent, or other water-wash technology.Also on display is ColorPath Sync cloud-based color management software, providing one location to manage color for multiple workfows, devices, and media.FlxonFuji Shoko promotes Katana, a ceramic-coated doctor blade model rebranded for the US market. Non-coated steel or stainless-steel models are also available for ordinary conditions. Katara series are fully processed in Japan.GEW brings its latest UV LED products to Labelexpo Americas. LeoLED, released in 2019, is GEW’s water-cooled UV LED offering and is fully compatible with GEW’s ArcLED hybrid system. It has a 50mm-wide window to give a long dwell time and is waterproof-sealed for easy cleaning and resilience to dust and ink. The LED array delivers electrical power of 88W/cm and an intensity of 30W/cm2, with minimal light loss due to the direct UV path. GEW says LeoLED is suitable for users who want access to UV Arc and UV LED technology, those with more demanding applications, GEWor those who want to print on substrates wider than 600mm. GEW also highlights AeroLED, a fully air-cooled UV LED system released in 2022. It is a high-power UV LED system for full cure, printing, coating and converting applications up to 600mm wide. AeroLED delivers power and reliability with a unique concept that eliminates many of the operational problems in existing air-cooled LED systems on the market. Moreover, the company says the design makes AeroLED cost-effective and step changes the accessibility of LED printing.GMGrafisk Maskinfabrik exhibits six machines, including the new DC350Flex high speed label fnisher ftted with a multi-web module producing multilayer labels using the entire web width. Also, the DC330Mini compact label fnisher can be seen converting pre-printed labels. It has several options such as real-time monitoring, full remote control, and job data in the cloud.Visitors can also see the SR350 slitter inspection rewinder, which has been completely redesigned as a modular machine with a range of options such as BST 100 percent inspection camera for pharma and security labels, scanner barcode reader, inkjet system, Grafotronicautomatic slitting unit, waste vacuum ejector and turret rewinder. Visitors can also see the LR250 label inspection rewinder. Also on show is the CC160S semi-automatic core cutter and the CS350 high-speed sheeter, a 350 mm roll-to-sheet guillotine cutter suitable for cutting labels and heavy materials.Grafotronic presents three world premieres for the label industry.The workfow automation suite enables the Grafotronic DCL2 to do job change autonomously, handling all job settings automatically. IQ works with a set of cameras monitoring the web and automatically adjusting parameters, taking over all the manual adjustments with a tolerance below +/- 0.1 mm.Grafotronic also promotes The One single anvil semi-rotary die, capable of reaching 150 m/min. It can be set up within just 30 cm of material with a tolerance of +/-0.1 mm.Also on show is the HI3 inspection rewinder with the Choose Green program. This features a regenerative system which captures braking energy and converts it into power, making the system approximately 30 percent more energy effcient.HeraeusGrafotronic is also showcasing Boon-Tech auxiliary machines, labelsandlabeling.com