It's a Bird, It's a Plane...It's Super UV/EB

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New technology is evolving in UV lamps and is proving worthy of its R&D dollars. One such technology is the electrodeless, or microwave-powered, lamp. "We have known that light reacts with certain chemicals that contain photoinitiators in predictable ways to produce cross linking and curing," said David Harbourne, president of Fusion UV (Gaithersburg, Md.), a company which makes microwave-powered UV lamps. "Fusion UV increased the application of UV in manufacturing by discovering and then patenting the use of microwave energy to excite the gases in our electrodeless bulbs."