Bridgelux has appointed Brad Bullington as its new CEO, Marl and Bivar have formed a global alliance, KaiStar has ordered more LED manufacturing systems from Veeco, and Lextar has completed its merger with Wellypower. Bridgelux appoints new ...
Tags: LED Business, LED, LED makers
UK - At midnight on New Year's Eve, the Mayor of London's New Year's Eve Firework Display celebrated an extraordinary year for the capital. Jack Morton Worldwide, the award winning global brand experience agency, created the display for the ...
Tags: Firework Display, London, Stage Electrics, lighting
California-based LED lighting manufacturer Bivar Inc and UK-based Marl International have formed an international opto-electronics partnership with manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia and a portfolio of approximately ...
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Slovenia - Robe is the moving light of choice at the prestigious Cankarjev Dom in Republic Square, Ljubljana, Slovenia, which has over 100 Robe products in its inventory. Named after writer and playwright Ivan Cankar, the building was ...
Tags: moving light, Light Sound, Lighting
Point Source Productions Ltd, the London-based hire company, has started the new year by investing in over pound 250,000 of new hire stock, expanding its inventory with equipment from manufacturers such as Chroma Q, Clay Paky, ETC, GDS and ...
Tags: Point Source Productions, 2013, investment, LED uplighters
A quiet revolution has been taking place behind the scenes on Broadway. An increasing number of lighting designers are choosing ETC's Eos desk to control huge rigs of conventional, LED and moving lights for the largest shows. Currently, ...
Tags: ETC, Eos, LED, moving lights
Canadian new wave /indie band, Metric, recently completed a successful tour in support of their fifth album Synthetica. Long-serving LD Ian MacDonald designed the lighting to be diverse - partly scaled to fit 1000-seat theatres, but ...
Tags: Metric, GLP, LED moving heads
The Netherlands - The latest Robe moving light technology - MMX Spots, LEDWash 1200s and LEDBeam100s - were chosen by Robin van der Plas, head of lighting and media at Patronaat, a popular high-profile alternative music venue in central ...
TV lighting specialists Aurora Lighting Hire were left fighting over the remote control on New Year's Eve. Aurora signed off "a phenomenal December" by supplying lighting facilities to multiple shows across BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. First ...
Tags: TV, lighting, Aurora Lighting, New Year's Eve, lighting facilities
Johannesburg-based lighting design, rental and production company Blackmotion has invested in the latest Robe moving light technology. The company specialises in television and live productions of all types, and one of the keys to their ...
Tags: lighting design, Blackmotion, Robe, moving light technology
Germany - SGM Lighting has boosted its penetration in key territories with the formation of SGM Germany. Spearheading operations for the Danish lighting company will be the experienced Michael Herweg and Thorsten Sattler, who were ...
UK-West London based lighting and visuals rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment(CSE)is supplying lighting and video(LED screen and control)to the current Peter Andre Up Close&Personal UK tour,working with lighting designer Dave Farmer ...
Tags: CSE, LED screen and control, Dave Farmer, THC Design
Lebanon / UAE - The latest Middle East technical production company to invest in Robe products is Sound On Stage, based in Lebanon and the UAE, and run by Mazan and Rawad Saad. The company, well known as an audio specialist, wanted to ...
Tags: Robe products, Sound On Stage, audio specialist, audio
Australia - Landmark Australian live music and performance venue The GH Hotel in St Kilda, Melbourne has recently taken delivery of 12 Robe DLX Spot moving lights - which have been added to the lighting rig in the main room. These were ...
Tags: DLX Spot moving lights, lighting rig, lighting system, lighting
Italy - Nearly 300 people attended the Illuminando le Star (Lighting the Stars) conference with Patrick Woodroffe, organised by Clay Paky in Rome. The event was sponsored by AILD, APIAS, the British Embassy in Rome and the University of ...
Tags: lighting, lighting design, lighting equipment, Woodroffe