UK - Lighting designer Jonny Gaskell has harnessed the laser-like beam of Clay Paky's Sharpy fixtures to deliver a high impact, three-dimensional lighting environment for electronic dance music duo Orbital on their UK tour, which culminated ...
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Philips in partnership with Cadw, the historic environment service of the Welsh Assembly Government, is to relight 18 of the region’s most impressive castles with predicted energy savings of 50%, equating to saving 92 tons of CO2 ...
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AkzoNobel has appointed Ruud Joosten executive committee member responsible for Decorative Paints with effect from the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on April 26. He will succeed Tex Gunning, member of the board of management, who will step ...
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German retailer Tengelmann, together with its US subsidiary Emil Capital Partners, has acquired a shareholding in chocolate maker Tcho. The retail group has also bought a stake in VariBlend Dual Dispensing Systems, which makes containers ...
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Saint-Gobain Glass India recently supplied Nano and COOL-LITE, two advanced high performance glass to the world’s tallest hotel JW Marriott Marquis, in Dubai. These two glasses were suggested as a double glazing solution for the ...
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Printing on to polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) plastic labels at around 100mm per second, the latest Allen 40/25 Hot Foil Coder is operating intermittently on the Sisley production line in France to produce 120 items per minute for ...
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After a five-year gap, the iconic Blackpool Tower has been illuminated to light up the sky. Indeed, on Tuesday (February 12th) the new LED light bulbs were switched on in celebratory fashion to mark that 10,000 old energy guzzling ...
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Osram and Arri develop the 9 kW daylight fixture An especially high quantity of light in compact spaces is the requirement of customers from the studio and stage lighting sector, because only when film sets are optimally illuminated and ...
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The Oscar-winning XBO cinema lamp unites high luminance with long life The cinema has been exciting audience members worldwide for more than 100 years. Only when animated pictures are put on-screen, they become blockbusters, which ...
The Abbemat series of refractometers from Anton Paar is now extended to include Abbemat 200. Four decades of expertise in refractometry and high-precision engineering from Anton Paar went into producing this straightforward benchtop ...
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Ocean Optics has recently been recognised with an ‘OFweek 2012 Best LED Service Supplier Award’ by China’s high technology portal OFweek photonics news. Since its entry into the Chinese market, Ocean Optics has ...
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Ministry of Sound in London has made its first investment in SGM's XC-5 LED strobes as part of the club's major annual upgrade. Chris Thoms, production manager at the venue, placed the order for ten units with SGM UK after seeing a ...
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French rental house Phase 4 has invested in 50 of the new VL3015LT Spot luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite. This makes Phase 4 the first lighting rental supplier in Europe to be able to offer the fixtures to its customers. Paris-based ...
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As I reported last week, the Centurion Jewelry Show held a week ago was the first chance to gauge both the mood of the industry in terms of the business and trends for the coming year. The mood I wrote about last week. This week I am ...
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Microsoft's new touchy-feely Windows 8 works well on a tablet or touchscreen notebook, but what about a traditional desktop machine? With no touch, desktop punters wrangling Windows 8 are reliant on the old keyboard and mouse combo for ...
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