Prolyte Group supports Untold Festival
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Forza Zu and After Hills in June, Neversea and Electric Castle in July and finally Untold in August mean a full production agenda for Arena Events. Prolyte Group works closely together with the mastermind behind these events, Corneliu Ladin.
Prolyte supplied much equipment for the above shows, with Untold being the highlight. Winning the award for Best Major European Festival 2015, motivated the Untold team to stage an even more impressive festival, including a line-up which encompasses almost every name on the DJ top 20.
“With the qualites and specs of the BGR70 truss type we we’re able to create a more elaborate design, being able to use both the high load bearing of the truss and the fact that it can be built to have zero deflection. This is ideal to create stunning front facades, as with the Neversea main stage,” states designer BigVis. “We used two spans of 22m of BGR70 truss to support the curved LED panels, mounted on truss, which really gave depth to the complete stage structure.”
Arena Events is one of the first companies in Europe to own this latest system from Prolyte. Due to its low volume and height, combined with a high load bearing capacity, the BGR70 truss is suitable as a mother grid, or to support a front façade for large sets, as with dance festivals.
In order to create the striking front façade for the Untold mainstage, three spans of 26m BRG70 were used, supported by six two-tonne hoists per side, creating just enough load bearing capacity to mount the extravagant decoration, lighting and LED panels that were all part of the design.
This was the stage and crowd that inspired Armin van Buuren to extend his set to five full hours!
Corneliu Ladin concludes: “Apart from the new BGR70 truss we use many more Prolyte products, like the crowd barriers, lots of truss in various sizes, roof systems, StageDex, you name it. That’s why Prolyte really is a great partner for us, they supply all the hardware you need to organise your event or festival. And, more important, they really do care about audience safety, all their products are absolutely reliable.”
(Jim Evans)
