Malcolm Rae, founder of UV curing systems manufacturer GEW, West Sussex, United Kingdom, has been announced the winner of this year’s Global Achievement Award. The award is the most prestigious accolade in the annual Label Industry Global Awards and recognizes “an individual who has made a key contribution to the promotion and growth of the label industry and has been a high-profile industry influencer and motivator.”
Malcolm Rae founded GEW in March 1991, creating what was to become the largest supplier of UV curing equipment to the narrow web label industry worldwide. Over a 35-year career, he has helped enable the transformation of label printing from primarily water-based to majority UV ink by forging long-lasting preferred supplier relationships with almost every major printing machine provider in the narrow web industry.
Still family owned, GEW employs over 150 people worldwide, at three UK manufacturing sites and two satellite offices, with sales, service and distribution serving over 60 countries.
Rae holds 21 international patents covering GEW’s key products, including the E2C, which is installed on 30,000 label print stations globally.
Rae steered GEW towards a strong focus on UV-LED curing, making the lamps exchangeable with arc UV lamps to help converters make the transition to UV-LED technology.
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