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In preparation AED, which has represented Robert Juliat in Belgium and Luxemburg since 2011, will expand market coverage and commence sales of Robert Juliat solutions in the Netherlands from 1 October 2013. Lightco, which has been distributing Robert Juliat products until now, will continue to do so in parallel with AED until the end of December 2013.

AED Distribution is the exclusive distributor of several professional AV brands across the Benelux territories, supplying AV professionals only.

"I'm very happy to complete our product portfolio in The Netherlands with a state-of-the-art product like Robert Juliat," says Hans Vanderheijden, MD of AED Distribution HQ. "AED Distribution is careful never to compete with its o

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In the intervening 18 months since Peter Johansen became CEO, a complete new LED product range has been launched, a global distributor network established, top international touring references have appeared across the world's media - and now the entrepreneur aims to establish a dedicated Danish base. What this will mean is Danish manufacturing, Danish employment and - to a great extent - Danish and European sub-suppliers.

"We anticipate that this move will create up to 400 new jobs over the next two years," stated a bullish Peter Johansen, announcing the decision.

The strategy is based on the winnin

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Jands UK dealer, A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. (PLASA stand P41) will showcase models from the Vista hardware range, including the new Vista D1 playback processor. When connected to any host console from the Vista family, each D1 allows control of an additional 8192 DMX channels to help cope with the increasing channel counts being used in today's designs.

Jands will also showcase new features for their award-winning Stage CL conso

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The company's PLASA stand (P60) will feature models from the Color Force, Studio Force and Inspire ranges illuminating various surfaces, to demonstrate the LED products' colour accuracy and consistency, and precise theatrical grade dimming - features which together are designed to deliver the highest performance levels from a lighting instrument, says the company.

Making its PLASA London debut is the award-winning Inspire LED house light, a powerful multi-purpose creative lighting tool that can transform the look and feel of both large performance spaces and smaller commercial,

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Søren's experience includes 16 years of working in top management for a leading lighting manufacturer, during which time he's built up an awesome amount of contacts worldwide and an impeccable reputation for integrity, in the process becoming one of the best known and liked 'personalities' of the professional lighting industry.

At Robe, he will be working closely alongside International Sales Director and CEO of Robe Inc. in the US, Harry von den Stemmen together with all of Robe's Regional Sales Managers in The Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Russia and the CIS states.

2013 has been a year of unprecedented growth for Robe. This has been boosted by the launch of a raft of highly successful products and recent expansion in the Mi

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Plus ETC introduces the ETC PLASA Lounge and Power and data requirements PLASA seminar.

Fixtures:

Key to this year's ETC stand is company's newest and most innovative LED lighting fixtures - the Source Four LED CYC and the Desire D22.

Above the stand is a large 7m x 3m cyclorama, lit with ETC Source Four LED CYC, using the Lustr+ LED engine. One side of the cyclorama is a painted theatrical cloth to show the versatility and efficacy of the Lustr+ seven colour mixing system, highlighting colours as

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The product range can also been seen in action providing sole illumination of the stand (Q50) for industry-sponsored racing driver, Jack Goff - currently competing in the 2013 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC).

"Each Vision product is manufactured using quality components, processes and materials, then tested to the very highest standards to deliver reliability and satisfaction time and time again," the company adds.

The Vision LED family features a 16° PAR, a 1 metre batten, and a zoomable moving wash, each using 10

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The PLASA Awards for Innovation

RC4's new RC4Magic DMX4Flkr with RC4 Flicker Effects Engine has been nominated for the PLASA Awards for Innovation. "The DMX2flkr and DMX4flkr produce beautiful flicker and flame effects," says RC4. "Use the RC4 Flicker Effects Engine to define unique, personalised looks, not pre-packaged or canned effects. You determine - in real time with DMX channels - how oscillators and random-number generators modulate

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PLASA 2013 attendees will get an opportunity to try out the compact V276 on Mac control interface and Mbox® Studio, a software-only version of the popular Mbox Extreme® media server, both of which are available for sale. Both products are designed for use with a user-supplied Apple Mac computer. Individually these solutions are feature-ri

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PLASA 2013 attendees will get an opportunity to try out the compact V276 on Mac control interface and Mbox Studio, a software-only version of the popular Mbox Extreme media server, both of which are available for sale. Both products are designed for use with a user-supplied Apple Mac computer. Individually these solutions are feature-rich but when combined, these two products prov

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The West London based company - which delivers cutting-edge visuals technology to some of the UK's biggest shows including X Factor, Million Pound Drop, Britain's Got Talent, and many events, conferences and award shows - is working closely with Avolites Media to offer the industry powerful solutions to push the boundaries of on-screen displays.

"Having looked at the marketplace we wanted to select a media server that would be user friendly and at the same time has plenty of future capabilities," says Anna Valley's director of corporate and events, Nick Hart. "The extended features combined with a familiar user i

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GLP's Udo Künzler and Mark Ravenhill have supplied the College with six Impression 90 LED moving heads on a long term loan. The units have been installed in the college's unique lighting training and research laboratories, and are available to the lighting design students for projects as well as to augment their designs for a range of innovative lighting projects.

Rose Bruford and GLP are collaborating on developing a close partnership, working together to provide the best possible training to students and professionals. This exciting new partnership has been made possible by lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe, who is an Honorary Fe

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The agreement brings together two of the most widely known and respected names in the entertainment products industry. ADJ has been a leading supplier of special effects and entertainment lighting since 1985. SF Marketing goes back even further, tracing its roots to 1978. Since its founding that year, the company has represented some of the leading names in the audio industry in Canada.

"We're extremely excited to enter into this agreement with SF Marketing," said Toby Velazquez, president of the ADJ Group of Companies. "Both of our companies share the same corporate philosophy of expanding our markets by educating and serving our customers better. Everything about SF Marketing has i

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The ever-popular awards - organised by The Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), Clay Paky and Ambersphere Solutions and generously sponsored by Chroma-Q, Hawthorn, MA Lighting, Osram, Robert Juliat and XL Video - provide public recognition for outstanding achievements in touring, television and theatre lighting and video design.

Hosted by Andy Collins, the sparkling ceremony saw over 300 lighting and video professionals from the worlds of TV, Theatre, Concert Touring and Events come together to celebrate the diverse range of creative talent in production design today.<

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The cheque was presented by ETC's Anders Ekvall to Light Relief trustee John Simpson and freelance lighting designer Stuart Porter, who was recently helped by the charity.

(Jim Evans)

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"Here at Black Light we've always been great fans of Robe's products due to their high quality and exceptional performance," says the company's events and hires manager, Calder Sibbald.

Black Light has chosen the Robe Robin Pointe because of its flexibility and performance. "It is a cross purpose light that will meet a wide range of lighting needs, including Beam, Spot, Wash and FX, and is a great beam light for events and music shows," says Sibbald.

The Robin MMX Blade uses the MMX discharge fixture, which ca

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This September, resident group Word and Life Worship - described as "a high-energy praise and passionate worship band spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ" - were again under the spotlight. Local sound and lighting specialists Prosound, PR Lighting's new South African distributors, provided a fully dynamic lightshow consisting of fixtures from the Chinese manufacturer to really make the performance come alive in the Boksburg-based church.

These included 10 XLED 1037, 10 XLED 336 and 10 XR 200 Beam - as well as other PR Lighting heads.

To maximize the event and swell the congregation, record companies and other churches from all over the region were invited with heavy pro

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The ADJ companies initiated legal action against American Lighting in 2012, charging it with trademark infringement and unfair competition under the Lanham Act. Neo-Neon was later added to ADJ's lawsuit, which centered on the use of the names "American,' "Revo" and "E-Pro" on special effects and entertainment lighting products intended to compete with the ADJ Group's American DJ

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Rush marks Martin's focus back to a market it knows well. "We are extremely excited about our RUSH range as it again brings everything that Martin stands for to the market for installation effect lights. Our roots lay in the lighting effects market and our experience will underscore the quality and reliability of the entire Rush Series," comments Villads Thomsen, vice president of global sales at Martin.

"The response since the release of Rush was overwhelmingly positive," continued Thomsen. "We feel the time is right to re-energize this segment a

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The PLASA Awards for Innovation recognise products that advance the industry by demonstrating a new style of thinking, improving technical practice or taking a key step forward in terms of safety. During the show's opening two days, 45 new products were judged 'live' by an independent panel of expert judges who toured the show floor to view each product presentation.

Eight awards of equal standing were presented, as well as the PLASA Award for Sustainability, to the following winners:

Clay Paky for the A.Leda B-EYE K20

The judges said, "The B-EYE had a &q

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"There were no delays, but the sound was clear and very loud even 100m back from the stage," recalls Jay Neil, technical director of EHQ Projects. "Afterwards, I had people telling me it sounded like a CD on a great stereo."

In order to cover an audience of 30,000 in Kuala Lumpur's Stadium Merdeka, the two companies configured a system of 72 Milo loudspeakers, including 40 for main hangs, 30 for side hangs, and two for out-fills. Front-fill was provided by 12 M'elodie line array loudspeakers, and 40 7

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Prices for the 2014 event had been increased by £10 to £210, plus a booking fee, but festival-goers could pay a deposit of £50 before sett

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The show was world premiered at the Mayfield Depot in Manchester as part of the 2013 Manchester International Festival (MIF), then played at Kraftzentrale at Duisburg's Landschaftspark at the 2013 Ruhrtriennale International Festival of the Arts culminating in a run at The Park Avenue Armouries in New York last week, making a serious impact.

The powerful and thought-provoking presentation was a collaboration between Massive Attack's Robert "3D" Del Naja, Adam Curtis and technical visionaries, United Visual Artists (UVA).

Lighting designer Tim Oliver has worked on various art and performance projects wi

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Real Music Acoustics & Lighting Technology Co. Ltd., Adamson System Engineering's distributor in China and Hong Kong, supplied an Energia E15 line array system for the two-day festival.

"The record labels artists represent many different genres of music," explains Richie Wang, GM for Real Music Acoustics & Lighting. "We provided a substantial Adamson E15 PA in order to accommodate their heavy metals bands as well as pop and folk music acts."

The E15 line arrays - 12 enclosures per array - were hung from scaffolding erected to the right and left of the stage. Under each array were a stack of six