Nu-Coat shares how its GEW UV curing system enabled it to make agility and flexibility the cornerstones of its business.

Nu-Coat specialises in the manufacture and supply of self-adhesive materials to the signage, display and graphics market for a broad variety of applications.

It carved out a niche by gearing its processes towards the production of specialist materials in relatively short runs, dealing in the smaller order volumes that many of its customers prefer.

Nu-Coat operations director Rob Musto said: “Nu-Coat originated from a concept in 2014 to produce niche products to fill a gap in the market for self-adhesives that the bigger players in the market wouldn't entertain.”

Nu-Coat’s investment in a state-of-the-art GEW UV curing system has made this short-run strategy viable.

Musto continued: “Flexibility is key for us. We can change very, very quickly, whereas some of the main players could take days and weeks in the campaign-type production that they operate under.

“We also don't need the large volumes that they require. With the small footprint of our coating line, that's probably half the length of a curing oven for our competitors. We achieve a cure within a few metres, whereas if I compare that to a solvent-based system you're looking at a minimum of 50 metres to set up the process and probably until they validate what they've coated and cured, you're into hundreds of metres of waste material.

“We probably can verify within 10 metres of a setup.”

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