The world of UV curing is rapidly growing; currently, curing a variety of materials with UV light is being employed in more and more industries. In the past for a long time, we used either mercury lamps or halogen lamps for light curing. Now we have another available choice – UV LED lamps. And there is an increasingly growing number of UV LED lamps. Surely, UV LED curing technology is also not perfect, and UV mercury lamps are still being widely applied in a lot of industries that involve UV curing; in some fields, UV mercury lamps have irreplaceable advantages; for example, generally, UV LED lamps emit UV rays that center around a single wavelength; by contrast, UV mercury lamps can emit multiple wavelengths of light at the same time; obviously, UV mercury lamps have a much wider wave region than UV LED lamps; and sometimes, to achieve a good UV effect, materials need to absorb multiple wavelengths of light; in such a case, UV mercury lamps are a more suitable option.

But overall, UV LED lamps have brought more benefits than traditional UV lamps. And here is a detailed comparison between UV mercury lamps and UV LED lamps.