BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Irish lighting rental company Production Services Ireland (PSI) became fully embroiled in the weekend commemorating the centenary of the sinking of the world’s most famous cruise ship: Titanic. They supplied lighting, rigging and crew to three major events to mark this moment in maritime history. On the same weekend, PSI also supplied lighting to three major boxing and wrestling events, so it proved a real brain-teaser for logistics and pre-planning and left PSI’s Belfast warehouse bare.
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BOIRARGUES, France – Spanish tower lift manufacturer VMB and France-based ESL have signed a deal for the exclusive distribution of all VMB products in France. ESL will now also be the official service center for all VMB lifts.
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TORONTO — Staging elements for a June 16 Radiohead concert at Downsview Park partially collapsed, with falling structural elements pinning and killing drum tech Scott Johnson, 33, at the scene. Another crew member was hospitalized with a non-life-threatening head injury, and two others were treated at the scene.
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DONETSK, Ukraine – CORTMI Ltd. has carried out an innovative lighting installation at a war memorial in their native city using PR Lighting’s new ARC LED 3216, among other lighting. The three LED spotlights have been placed on specially installed masts around the monument, illuminating it with red light to symbolize the bloody years of war.
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VENTURA, CA – Don “Donnie” Halchak has joined Ventura, CA-based Total Structures as East Coast Sales Executive. He will be based out of Wilkes-Barre, PA, but will be on the road much of the time visiting customers. Halchak comes from Mountain Productions where he spent the majority of his 13-year career involved with entertainment rigging, going from hoist tech to sales rep.
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High End Systems’ TechnoArc automated luminaire is designed for small to medium scale performance applications. The compact soft-edge luminaire – and a companion to the hard-edged Technospot – features smooth CMY color mixing and a fixed color wheel, a 6.5 inch lens, 8° to 32° zoom, and more than 14,000 lumens of output. The fixture is now shipping from its Austin, TX headquarters.
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KENILWORTH, UK – Live video/AV production and rental specialist Central Presentations Ltd. (CPL) has appointed Lee Gruszeckyj to boost its busy Project Management team. “Lee G,” as he is nicknamed, has extensive industry experience dealing with video and IMAG systems – both engineering and directing – and also projection. He has previously worked with CPL early in his career.
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