Labelexpo Europe 2023 – Ancillary products | 135reaching 400m/min. Web widths of 660mm (26 inches) and 760mm (30 inches) are also now available in addition to 560mm (22 inches).The company recently added rotary actuating drives to its actuator product range with type AD 11 and AD 12 marketed under the EL. Motion brand as ‘intelligent’ drives with an integrated controller. The drives can be used for position control, speed control or torque control. Esterlam International showed its line of synthetic doctor blades featuring less dot gain, longer blade life, lower blade pressures, and a direct replacement for steel. Shown was their E5 0.5mm containment blade, E600 0.6mm double laminate doctor blade and E10 1.0 double laminate doctor blade.“EFFICIENCY, ENERGY SAVINGS AS WELL Flexo Wash demonstrated its range of cleaning products and introduced the FW 850 laser anilox cleaner. FW 850 series models AS SAFETY WERE KEY THEMES IN THE clean up to two narrow web rolls in one cycle and can be installed without a water supply or drain. It can handle aniloxes up to PRODUCTS PRESENTED AT THE 2023 180mm (7in) in diameter, a maximum cleaning length of 700mm (27.6in) and maximum weight per anilox of 50kg (110lbs).EDITION OF LABELEXPO EUROPE”Fortisblades exhibited industrial slitting razorblades for effcient transferred to the plate, reducing foaming, UV ink spitting, and dust-free slitting. Fortis, Fortis+ and Fortius series are designed mottling, pin holing, plugging and dot gain. The engraving is for use on all types of flm. The high resistance to wear and tear available in a variety of volume options and can be utilized in ensures a smooth cut, even in complex structures and/or recycled multiple print applications, from fne print to food coat. materials.Cheshire also demonstrated its full range of engraving echnology Hoya introduced its NX Series LED-UV air cooled space and including TactiLoX for high-build tactile effects, easyFlo HD for energy-saving curing system for new and retroft fexo printing high opacity whites in a single pass, and Profo for high-defnition presses. Features include a complete neuron microchip network process print. for constant monitoring of the curing process, intelligent status Continental presented its expanded printing blanket technology head indicators (on each unit) and intuitive GUI with easy-to-use portfolio following the acquisition of Trelleborg’s printing symbols and diagnostic tools, 25W/sqcm peak irradiance, technology business. Featured were the Axcyl and Laserline brands. modular system for easy maintenance, digital AC/DC converter, The Axcyl wide-web and narrow-web plate offer low weight, pure stable voltage and an aesthetic power supply architecture high stiffness, stability and optimizes flter vibrations from the for up to 2 LED-UV head units per box w status PS indication LED printing plate. The Conti Laserline product range was expanded for on each unit.fexographic printing with the addition of versatile printing plates GEW showed its full product range with the debut of its and sleeve technology for water- or solvent-based and UV curing AeroLED air-cooled UV LED system. AeroLED is a high-power ink systems. system for full cure, printing, coating and converting applications Daetwyler SwissTec displayed its range of MDC doctor blades up to 60cm wide.for fexo printing with a focus on its Goldstar providing high The design update makes AeroLED compatible with GEW’s reliability due to the very hard base coating and corrosion-resistant ArcLED system. Using the same fan and ducting arrangement as coating. Also featured was their fagship Longlife doctor blade the E2C, printers have the fexibility to switch between arc and LED that provides clean doctoring, reduces drag-outs and increases curing on any station.cylinder life. In an AeroLED system, air is extracted by a single centralized fan DR Hönle, UV Technology presented LED-UV curing devices sited away from the press. AeroLED features the same LED chassis for pinning and fnal curing of printing inks and varnishes in label and core components as GEW’s water-cooled LeoLED lamphead. printing applications. The new water-cooled LED Powerline LC HV AeroLED’s design enables the lowest energy usage of all GEW is supplied with a voltage of 400 V DC. The two device versions products.differ in the width of the light aperture and thus in the irradiation The company held a press conference with All4Labels to discuss intensity, reaching up to 25,000 mW/sqcm and offers the option the upgrade of 600+ GEW UV lampheads at the converter’s of a variable format switch-off. The length of the device can be operating plants, including the new AeroLED UV curing systems. modularly adapted to the application. Discussed were the benefts of the air-cooled AeroLED UV Hönle also presented the air-cooled LED Powerline AC/IC HP curing system compared to water-cooled systems, in addition with intensities up to 16,000 mW/sqcm featuring a compact design to the system’s energy effciency, process reliability and ArcLED and lightweight. For larger irradiation widths, LED heads can be compatibility.lined up without gaps. Robert Rae, Managing Director of Sales, GEW said: ‘It was Co-exhibitors at the Hönle booth were its two subsidiaries fantastic to return to Labelexpo Europe for the frst time since PrintConcept UVTechnik and UV-Technik Speziallampen. They 2019. The exhibition was exceptional for GEW, with a record show LED and UV curing devices as well as inert curing systems number of visitors to our stand, and a very healthy order book to for web offset printing or tailormade UV and IR emitters as well as show for it. We displayed our full product range but UV LED was measuring technology. top of the agenda for most of our visitors.’Erhardt+Leimer exhibited new rotary drives, its new generation GEW also staged a series of on-press presentations at the Omet Smartscan MIS2 print inspection system, in addition to its full and Mark Andy stands to demonstrate energy and cost savings product range of web guiding, web tension control and print when upgrading curing technology on a press from conventional monitoring systems. UV Arc to UV LED.Smartscan MIS2 is faster and more compact with the 2K Hamamatsu presented a new family of high-performing resolution offering speeds up to 600m/min and the 4K with speeds air-cooled UV-LEDs and excimer lamp light sources for curing Oct - Dec 2023