With immediate effect, GEW will be represented for its sheetfed offset and wide web offset business across North America by GMH UV LLC.

Based in the Midwest, GMH UV is headed up by industry stalwart Grieg Heimbuch. A lifelong graphic arts veteran, Heimbuch has spent the past 40 years in equipment sales.

GMH UV is now a dedicated partner and distributor of the GEW UV product line for the sheetfed industry in North America, and will provide full sales coverage throughout the territory. The company will be supported by a multi-million dollar parts inventory and a large and experienced service team already in place at GEW Inc in Ohio. Together they are ready to meet all of their customers’ reliability needs, focused on keeping printers up and running excellent UV and LED product. All service and spare parts will continue to be delivered through GEW’s established infrastructure, while GMH UV will fully focus on sales and business development.

“GEW’s sheetfed UV and LED products exceed the quality and reliability requirements that GMH UV has set as a priority,” says Heimbuch. “An exact meeting of power, quality, and price makes GEW’s UV equipment perfectly suited to deliver to GMH UV’s high-performance, high-volume printing market that represent how UV Sheetfed printing has matured over the past decade.”

Heimbuch has surrounded GMH UV with experts in every aspect of UV curing and printing, creating a highly capable team to provide the most state-of-the-industry process and product support. GMH UV has an “on the floor” service format that will eliminate the current “call and wait while down” customer service support so notorious in existing equipment supply schemes.

This drive for reliability and productivity is further supported by GEW’s Remote Monitoring Service. Robert Rae, managing director of sales at GEW, explains, “All new GEW UV systems are continuously monitored over the internet and this enables encrypted system performance data to be sent live to GEW, to ensure the fastest and most precise service response available. The full service history of every lamp is recorded and viewable by GEW engineers in the USA, including all parameters, faults and operator commands. A preventative maintenance program will recommend software or hardware updates and can highlight and correct out-of-tolerance parameters before any issue arises on site.”

Rae goes on to explain the background to this latest move in GEW’s sales strategy for North America: “In the past year, the sales organization at GEW Inc has undergone a significant restructuring. We have an excellent product lineup across our narrow web, sheetfed and wide web printing and coating markets, and a service organization with an enviable reputation. However, we had to find a solution to grow into the expanding sheetfed packaging market without losing focus on our core markets in narrow web printing. This exciting partnership with GMH allows us to do just that with GEW Inc maintaining its historical focus and GMH spearheading sheetfed and wide web offset.”

With GMH UV and GEW, Heimbuch is committed to bringing the best possible world of UV and LED to sheetfed printers across North America. He comments, “GEW not only brings the experience and commitment of the largest graphic arts UV company in the world to the North American market, they have partnered with GMH UV to meet and exceed the production needs of our customers. I cannot be more thrilled to represent GEW and help to improve the way printers are worked with in the North American market.”

Rae concludes, “We are very confident that the sales acumen and industry expertise of GMH UV partnered with high quality UV and LED products and services from GEW will be a breath of fresh air for a sheetfed offset market bereft of new options.”