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Malcolm Rae has been announced the winner of this year’s Global Achievement Award, which recognises 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. The Label Awards judging panel commented, ‘Malcolm Rae is a worthy winner of the global achievement award. This recognises his unique contribution, through GEW, the company he founded, to the narrow web industry’s transition to UV curing and to the subsequent technological development of the UV curing industry.’
Malcolm Rae founded GEW in March 1991, creating what was to become one of the leading suppliers of UV curing equipment to the narrow web label industry worldwide.
Over a 35 year career, Malcolm Rae helped enable the transformation of label printing from primarily water based to majority UV ink by forging longlasting preferred supplier relationships with almost every major printing machine provider in the narrow web industry.
Still family owned, GEW employs 150 people worldwide, at three UK manufacturing sites and two satellite offices, with sales, service and distribution serving over 60 countries.
A chartered mechanical engineer, Malcolm Rae holds 21 international patents covering GEW's key products, including the E2C, which is installed on 30,000 label print stations globally.
His inventions helped pioneer the commercialisation of many, now commonplace, UV technologies such as UV cassettes, electronic power supplies and exclusively air cooled lamps. More recently, he has 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.
Under his stewardship GEW has won a number of label industry awards and the Queen's Award for Export.
The award will be presented at a gala awards evening on the first day of Labelexpo Europe 2023.
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