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Chauvet Holds Grand Opening Event for New Facility In Mexico

Chauvet Holds Grand Opening Event for New Facility In Mexico

[caption id="attachment_275547" align="alignnone" width="800"]Carlos Zamora de Martino, Daniel Pérez join the Chauvets[/caption]

LERMA, Mexico – Chauvet held a grand opening event for its new office, warehouse, service center and showroom facility in Mexico recently. Close to 100 attended the event, which featured a buffet dinner, speeches and DJ entertainment. Pictured here, from left, are Carlos Zamora de Martino General Manager of Chauvet Mexico, Daniel Pérez Carrillo and Alma Delia Reyes Villegas of Kassthelm, Albert Chauvet and Berenice Chauvet

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Eurolite to Feature Hypno LED Moving Lights at PL+S

[caption id="attachment_275544" align="alignnone" width="639"]New Eurolite fixture has cool external rings[/caption]

FRANKFURT, Germany — Eurolite will be featuring its new Hypno fixtures at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt April 4-7, 2017. They included 30W and 60W versions. Both have LED rings around the lens, lighting up with 76 and 88 RGB SMD LEDs, respectively.

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NanoLumens Turns Architectural ‘Challenge’ Into Interactive AV Resource

[caption id="attachment_275541" align="alignnone" width="800"]Interactive Educational Centerpiece created by Nanolumens[/caption]

BOISE, ID — Food and agribusiness company J.R. Simplot turned to Neurilink, also based in Boise, for ideas on how to deal with a four-foot-wide concrete column that employees and company visitors would be passing each day. Neurilink’s Michael Fornander detailed how his firm was able to transform that obstruction into an interactive information resource with the help of a curved NanoLumens Nixel Series LED video display.

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Three-Day Dragonland Festival in Hong Kong Lit with Rig Including GLP X4 LED Fixtures

HONG KONG – A new three-day music festival, Dragonland, made its debut on the Hong Kong event scene recently. Billed as the region’s first outdoor festival to combine pop with EDM, it joins Clockenflap as the only large-scale event of its kind in Hong Kong. Promoted by Playerone, a crowd of 15,000 people per day had been estimated, and in terms of production AHM Engineering supplied 20 of GLP’s award-winning X4 Bar 10 battens and 90 impression X4, as one of the mainstays of the stage set.

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LD Björn Hermann used 60 Claypaky Mythos2 and 20 Claypaky Supersharpy2 fixtures at the Crystal Worlds attraction.

Swarovski Crystal World Festival of Light Lit with Claypaky Fixtures

WATTENS, Austria – LD Björn Hermann used 60 Claypaky Mythos2 and 20 Claypaky Supersharpy2 fixtures to deliver two large light sculptures as part of global crystal producer Swarovski’s Festival of Light, hosted at their 17-acre fantasy park Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds) in Wattens, Austria. Lead creative agency for Festival of Light was Berlin-based international creative production company StudioNOW, who originated the project’s concept.

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Rafael Adame and Tony Linares

ARRI Rental Opens Boutique Offices In Los Angeles and Vancouver, Adds Two to Burbank, CA Office

LOS ANGELES – ARRI Rental opened new “boutique” offices in Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC, Canada. Sarah Mather will oversee the Vancouver facility as Operations Manager. The company also announced that Rafael Adame and Tony Linares, pictured here, L-R, are joining the company’s Burbank, CA office. Both bring over 20 years of experience to ARRI Rental. As Technical Marketing Executive Rafael will be a key member of the ALEXA 65 support team for North America. Tony will manage key operational departments including prep, warehouse, logistics and inventory control in the role of Operations Manager.

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DTS Lighting Takes Stratosphere Theater To New Heights

[caption id="attachment_275526" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Stratosphere utilizes DTS fixtures[/caption]

LAS VEGAS — The Stratosphere Theater, within the Stratosphere hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, is a busy place, with up to three different productions a day, all of which feature unique lighting requirements. Director of entertainment Chris Townsend credited DTS for the performance of 28 new Max L moving lights that have been installed in the venue since January.

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Staging Concepts' new Uplift Stage features a drill operated design.

Staging Concepts Updates its Uplift Stage with Drill-Operated Design

Staging Concepts, a provider of custom staging solutions based in Minneapolis, launched its second generation Uplift® Stage. Reconstructed with a new design, the product now requires no manual lifting and is 100 percent drill operated. The platform is a scissor stage that is raised and lowered with an electric drill, allowing users to setup quickly, efficiently, and with the least amount of effort.

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Advanced Absorbs APG Displays To Create New Videowall Division That Offers Full Integration Services

ORLANDO — After spinning off APG Displays’ rental business into APG Rentals in 2016 to provide a more dedicated rental service, Advanced, a leading North American systems integration firm, announced on March 21 that all of its APG Displays sales and installation sectors will be integrated into a new division of Advanced, the Advanced Videowall Group.

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