UK UV specialist GEW has come to the aid of a commercial printing works in Ukraine with the donation of a complete 40″ UV & LED curing system for the company’s Komori L640+C sheetfed offset press, without charge. Video.
Mikhail Gluhovski, MD of Pryvatna Drukarnya, contacted GEW in early 2022, to request a quotation for the supply of the system.
The printing works, based in Khmelnytskyi in Western Ukraine, had been forced to halt production in February 2022 so it could instead provide humanitarian support to some of the many refugees that were fleeing the conflict in the east of the country.
This included using their two restaurants and a gymnasium, normally used by staff and customers, to prepare up to 1200 free meals every day for refugees, and to accommodate up to 500 people every night. These efforts were carried out night and day for almost a month, while the refugees’ need was at its peak.
Gluhovski’s original request to GEW was not for financial assistance; it was merely that the UV system could be supplied to Pryvatna Drukarnya on preferential payment terms to enable them to take on the risk of investment in such difficult business conditions.
It was at this point that GEW’s family owners stepped in and offered to supply the entire UV system free of charge, "in recognition of the valiant work the company had done under such difficult circumstances."
