Robe Launches UAE Operation
ABU DHABI, UAE – Robe launched Robe UAE to help distribute and market their Robe and Anolis brands in the Middle East. The new office is in the Makateb Business Centre, Abu Dhabi.
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SNP Productions Expands, Moves to New Facility
MILTON KEYNES, U.K. – After a busy 2009, SNP Productions announced that it has moved to a larger office and warehouse facility here. The company provides video control solutions rentals, sales, training and support.
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Jands Serves as Head Staging Contractor for $50 Million Glasshouse Project
PORT MACQUARIE, Australia – Designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects and opened in mid-2009, the $50 million Glasshouse arts center includes a 600-seat performing arts theatre, a 600-square-meter regional art gallery, a studio theatre, conference facilities and a community workshop. Jands served as head staging contractor for the project.
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Entec Supplies the Australian Pink Floyd Show’s European Tour
LONDON – For the fifth time, Entec Sound & Light is supporting the U.K. and European tour for The Australian Pink Floyd Show (TAPS), providing lighting and video equipment plus crew.
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LEDtronics LEDs Used at Farnsworth Art Museum
ROCKLAND, ME – The interior walls of the Farnsworth Art Museum aren't the only things about the place that are green. So are the decisions to seek alternatives to pesticides on the lawn outside and to switch from halogen to LED light bulbs for all the museum's galleries.
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PSI Supplies Gear, Crew for Theatre At The Mill
BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Production Services Ireland has completed the supply and installation of lighting and sound equipment at the new 400 seat Theatre At the Mill in Newtownabbey.
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Rose Brand Blog Discusses Flame Retardant Fabrics
SECAUCUS, NJ – Rose Brand has announced a second blog post on fire safety in the entertainment industry. The posting discusses flame tests, flame retardant fabric terminology such as IFR, DFR, FR, and the procedures and manufacturing techniques that make a fabric flame retardant.
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Scharff Weisberg, Scott Wolfeil Light TV’s “Thin Ice”
NEW YORK – Lighting designer Scott Wolfeil of LDG (Lighting Design Group) used gear supplied by Scharff Weisberg for Thin Ice, which was broadcast live on ABC from the Premier Ballroom of the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Conn.
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Stage Technologies, Serapid Gear Used in First “Vertical Theatre”
DALLAS – The first clue that the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center in the Dallas Arts District, is more skewed toward invention than tradition is the exterior. It is housed within a 12-story cube with an outer shell of perpendicular aluminum tubes.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – This year, Wybron celebrates 30 years since it first offered its scrolling color changer. Invented by Wybron CEO Keny Whitright in 1980, the scrolling color changer sparked changes in the way lighting rigs were outfitted, designed and employed.
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Martin Maxedia Drives LED Sculpture at Vanity Nightclub, Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS – Although its name might suggest otherwise, not all eyes at the Vanity nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino are focused on the club's mirrored surfaces. Instead, they naturally gravitate to a custom-made LED chandelier/sculpture made up of 20,000 LED points driven by a Martin Maxedia Compact media server.
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Chauvet, Iluminarc Set Sail With Carnival Cruise Lines
PORT CANAVERAL, FL – Carnival Cruise Lines's 1,004-foot Carnival Dream has been equipped with Chauvet and Iluminarc LED fixtures, lighting the ship's Lido Deck and main lobby. Carnival Cruise Lines's Carnival Spirit and Carnival Miracle also feature Iluminarc lighting.
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