CM Addresses Pin Issue
Columbus McKinnon recently issued a statement pertaining to questions about brake retaining pins on the company's hoists.
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Northwestern College Upgrades Campus With Christie LCD Projectors
ST. PAUL, MN – In an effort to provide high resolution visuals for the benefit if its students, Northwestern College has opted to upgrade its AV system with Christie LW400 and LX400 LCD projectors.
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EBS Lights Uses Martin Gear for Mayday 2010
DORTMUND, Germany – On April 30 at the Westfalenhalle music and sports complex, "Mayday" has less to do with an emergency distress signal than with a big annual indoor celebration of electronic music. This year, EBS Lights of Limburg, Germany used more than 150 Martin moving heads and more than 300 fixtures in all for the 23,000 revelers who came to hear 50 top national and international acts perform near four large dance zones.
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LSC Clarity Helps Manage 33 Video Screens for Australian TV’s Logies Awards
MELBOURNE, Australia – For The Logies, an annual Australian TV industry awards program, LD Rohan Thornton and fellow crew members used an LSC Clarity lighting and control system along with nine media servers from both Green Hippo and Pandoras Box to control a key visual element – 33 video screens in the Melbourne Crown Towers' Palladium Ballroom.
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Philips Vari-Lite VL550 Wash, VL1100 ERS Now Shipping
DALLAS – Philips Vari-Lite's VL550 Wash and Vl1100 ERS luminaries, which update the VL500 Wash and VL1000 ERS luminaire models, are now shipping. Along with design enhancements for quieter and smoother operation, each series now offers a 315W ceramic discharge lamp model.
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Robe Lights World’s Largest Soccer Ball
JOHANNESBURG – Robe CitySkape Xtreme LED fixtures were used to illuminate what's been officially declared by Guinness World Records as the world's biggest soccer ball.
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Event Tech Names Kacey Coffin Fisher Director of Business Development
BALTIMORE, MD – Event Tech named Kacey Coffin Fisher director of business development, a newly-created position. She comes to Event Tech after serving 10 years as owner and president of Fisher Theatrical, a Hanover, MD-based theatrical installation company.
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Jessica Allan Named Business Area Manager – Touring & Production for Martin’s EMEA
AARHUS, Denmark – Martin Professional named Jessica Allan as new Business Area Manager – Touring & Production for Martin's Danish-based EMEA sales organization, which expands her focus from the U.K. to LDs and key customers throughout Europe.
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SEP Using Trailer-Mounted Daktronics DVX Displays
BROOKINGS, SD – Special Event Production (SEP), a Daktronics rental partner and communication technology provider for the event industry, has added two trailer-mounted video displays to their fleet. The trailers, equipped with Daktronics DVX LED video displays, have been used for several events already.
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Stage Technologies Recognized for Growth in U.K. and Abroad
LONDON – After scoring the #52 slot in the Microsoft-sponsored Sunday Times Tech Track 100 last year, which tallies the 100-fastest-growing private technology companies in the U.K., Stage Technologies scored a #48 on the newspaper's International Track 100 in July 2010, which compares private British companies with the fastest-growing international sales.
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FIFA World Cup Events Kept Stageline Busy
L'ASSOMPTION, Quebec, Canada – Long before the first vuvuzela stadium horns accompanied cheers in South Africa for the world's best soccer teams, Stageline mobile stages were called in for various events related to the FIFA World Cup.
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Minnesota Supreme Court Upgrades with Vaddio Camera Systems
MINNEAPOLIS – The Minnesota Supreme Court's Courtroom 300, the larger of two courtrooms visible to the public via KTCA in St. Paul and the Internet, recently upgraded with a new Vaddio ProductionVIEW FX switcher and three WallVIEW PRO 300 PTZ camera systems. AV integrator MSpace also updated the audio system.
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