UK - ShowTex returns to London next week for the ABTT Theatre Show where several new product developments will be presented at stand number 39.

The Acoustic Baffle from ShowTex proves ecology and noise level control can go hand in hand, says the company. The new acoustic fabric panels are made from 100% recycled material compressed together to optimize sound conditions. The flame retardant Acoustic Baffle comes in two sizes (2m long and 3 m long) and can be installed modularly for extra flexibility.

By combining the two standard formats, nearly any height or area can be covered. The

UK - With more than a hundred exhibitors preparing for the first ABTT Theatre Show to be held at the Old Truman Brewery in East London, many are taking the opportunity to demonstrate new products to the technical theatre community. Visitor registrations have exceeded the previous two years, and the choice of the new venue seems to have increased the excitement of the Theatre Show, which will be celebrating its 34thyear on 13 and 14 June, say the organisers.

The ABTT 2012 Theatre Show has attracted exhibitors from all areas of technical equipment supply and service provision. The promi

Switzerland - Barix has successfully marketed its two-way Annuncicom IP audio and SIP/VoIP devices around the world, bringing bidirectional audio streaming and control solutions to various markets within the commercial, entertainment, private sector and residential worlds.

Barix now builds on that success with the introduction of two new Annuncicom devices at InfoComm 2012 (June 13-15, Las Vegas Convention Centre, Booth C11722) that are priced to compete in large-volume projects and applications.

The new Annuncicom 50 is built specifically for OEM applications. Barix is now shipping

UK - Take a walk along Brick Lane, or any other surface you could imagine - Le Mark will introduce the new CODA digitally printed performance vinyl floor at this year's ABTT Trade show.

A high performance dance and stage floor with the advantage of a 'print receptive' surface. CODA's construction allows for high resolution custom designs to be overprinted to meet a set designer's specification.

Durability in manufacture has been key, CODA is designed to tour as well as fixed for installations. This performance stage floor can be rolled out, used re-rolled, shipped, stored and still

USA - Chauvet has confirmed its participation in PLASA Focus: Nashville 2012. The Chauvet Professional booth number during the two-day event, held at The Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., is 302.

Chauvet will show case the latest members of their Legend and COLORado families withLegend 412 and COLORado Zoom Tour, as well as the newest member of their Q-Series with Q-Spot 460-LED. Also featured, are Q-Wash 560Z LED moving yoke, MVP modular video panels and the wireless fixture WELL.

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Sweden - Wireless Solution Sweden AB has announced that Ape Labs has chosen W-DMX as an OEM partner for wireless DMX. The first fixtures they will implement W-DMX into is the Mobilight 3 and the Mobilight 3S, which are going into immediate production.

The Mobilight is a professional rechargeable battery-based show spot light for mobile applications - no cables, versatile and flexible in use. The unit is optimal for mobile usage at events, stage shows and in clubs and discotheques. It is precisely for this reason that the advanced LED spotlights are already a key element in the reperto

UK - Roland Systems Group is has announced the launch of a dedicated iPad application to control their award winning M-480 Digital Console. This "much requested 'App'" has been designed to control the parameters of the M-480, as well as giving the user practical features such as the ability to store scenes and edit the Channel Strip (EQ), GEQ and Sends on Fader.

Connecting the new Roland Wireless Connect USB adaptor to the M-480 USB port will enable the M-480 to appear on a wireless network so that the iPad can connect to and control the M-480 remotely. Then by simply using

UK - At this week's ABTT Theatre Show, newly relocated to the Old Truman Brewery at Brick Lane in London's East End, entertainment lighting specialist White Light will be showing some of the very latest advances in lighting technology - some brand new, some already put to use on recent high-profile events.

The highest profile of these was the Diamond Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace, which featured the new i-Line battens from i-Pix. Building on the success of the renowned BB range, the i-Line 600 and i-Line 1200 RGBW battens are incredibly bright with beautifully smooth output, a

Germany - Dynacord's PowerMate 600-3 is suitable for all professional applications in which few channels yet very high amplifier output are required. The concept of the new PowerMate 600-3 is based on high power, a wealth of features and first class audio characteristics - in a lightweight format, says the company. The youngest in the PowerMate family weighs in at a mere nine kilos, but boasts a total output of over 2.000 watts.

The feature set of the PowerMate 600-3 includes extremely low-noise and low-hum, electronically balanced XLR microphone inputs (low THD, typically <0.002%), s

UK - Doughty Engineering is launching two new products at ABTT, as well as previewing others before their official launch later in the year.

Debuting at ABTT (stand 35) is Doughty's 35mm Atom clamp, a "perfect fit for 35mm speaker stands". The smallest of Doughty's clamp range, Atom clamps are slotted to hold captive a nut or bolt head, have a SWL of 100kg and are suitable for lightweight truss as well as the majority of stands.

New additions to the Doughty catalogue are Reutlinger Cable Holders. Available in two different sizes to suspend loads of up to 130kg and up to 33

UK - Triple E will launch its redesigned and refined TRA06 theatre curtain runner at the ABTT 2012 Show this week.

Triple E - respected for the kind of engineering expertise that enables inspired and dynamic scenic design - has released its upgraded TRA06, which works seamlessly with older versions of the product and with the company's industry standard Unibeam and Unitrack systems. It comes in two or four-wheeled (for curved tracks) versions and is built to carry a curtain or scenic cloth to a safe working load of 25Kg.

The latest version of the TRA06 features flanged ball-raced wh

UK - Moving Light Assistant has joined the City Theatrical family of professional lighting software which includes Vectorworks and Lightwright 5. Moving Light Assistant simplifies the complex task of organizing and documenting moving light rigs.

Visitors to City Theatrical's stand #50 at ABTT 2012 at the Old Truman Brewery can see a demonstration of the programme from its author, professional designer/programmer Andrew Voller.

Moving Light Assistant can be used from the pre-production phase for planning and designing the moving light rig right through to producing the final document

UK - The new SRT Rigger Glove from Dirty Rigger was officially launched today. The SRT rigger glove boasts silicone embossing on key areas for a confident performance in all-weather working environments.

High density knuckle padding and finger guards to protect against impact, combined with micro perforated inner fingers to help keep your hands cool even in the toughest of environments.

The SRT is a result of collaboration between Dirty Rigger and nationally recognised crew service suppliers Crewsaders.

Designed to withstand vigorous manual labour in all weather conditions, be com

USA - - Barco has added three heavy-duty and high-definition three-chip DLP projectors to its rental portfolio. The new HDF-W22 offers 22,000 lumens light output, the HDF-W26 clocks in at 26,000 lumens and the HDQ-2K40 generates no less than 40,000 lumens.

Additionally, Barco's HDX-W18, HDF-W26 and HDQ-2K40 projectors will be available with a unique adjustable brightness feature later this year. Thanks to this 'light-on-demand' technology, rental partners have full flexibility to tune the light output of their projector to the specific needs of their customer's event, says the company

UK - The new 'Lightweight' project from Impossible Arts is a portable, four-metre diameter translucent sphere which achieves 360-degree imaging from four internally-mounted projectors. The imagery is mesh-warped to counter the distortion caused by the curved surface and graded masks allow the separate images to merge and create a single moving image that seamlessly fills the globe.

It can handle a range of content including video effects, short films, 'streamers' (sets of images which dance and spin around the entire surface), giant satellite images of the earth, 'lumi' (music, sound

USA - The OCA Alliance has announced the completion of the OCA 1.0 specification, marking a significant milestone in its drive to create a standardised control and monitoring architecture for professional AV networks.

Open Control Architecture (OCA) defines a flexible and robust system control and monitoring standard that covers the entire range of professional media networking applications, from the smallest to the largest.

On 4 May, 2012, the OCA 1.0 specification was released to OCA Alliance Observer Members for comment. The OCA 1.0 specification will be presented to a public sta

USA - Trusst, a manufacturer specializing in efficient and economical trussing and related components, launched its first line at InfoComm 2012. Part of Chauvet & Sons, Inc., which includes the Chauvet DJ, Chauvet Professional and Iluminarc brands, Trusst develops aluminium truss systems "built with care for exhibitions, entertainment, production and retail applications".

The first line of Trusst is 12" (290mm) square truss that utilizes a conical connector system, that easily mates with other major brands of truss of the same size and connector style. Trusst offers mod

USA - Tannoy revealed at InfoComm its new VSX Series line of subwoofer devices. Developed to augment the recently launched VX Series and VXP Series line of full-range sound reinforcement loudspeakers, the new VSX Series initially comprises of five passive enclosures, with powered versions promised to follow later in the year.

Developed from the ground up, VSX Series is precision engineered to deliver high impact, low and ultra-low frequency reinforcement in a compact format. Powerful and versatile performers in either installed sound or portable/live PA applications, VSX Series is sui

UK - Duo-Split RDM is a new 2-input, 8-output DMX and RDM Splitter from Artistic Licence Engineering. Housed in a 19" 1U rack enclosure, Duo-Split distributes DMX and RDM using the same market-leading DMX Splitter technology employed across Artistic Licence's full Splitter Range.

Duo-Split not only has two separate inputs, but each input can be independently switched to a 'fixer' mode to remove RDM traffic being sent to the outputs by removing non zero start code packets. In

Each of Duo-Split RDM's eight buffered outputs can be individually selected to either of its two indepen

USA - At InfoComm 2012 d&b audiotechnik displayed new products from its Black range, new additions to the E-Series and the first showing in the US of its V-Series line array, launched at Frankfurt's Prolight+Sound in March. The company's demo lounge, meanwhile, was crammed daily by people wanting to learn more about the pragmatic values of the White range. Developed for the installation market, all loudspeakers from the White range address the physical, acoustical, and electrical considerations of installation in a clean unobtrusive industrial design, the company says.

The highlight o

UK/USA - Introduced at the beginning of this year, Shure ULX-D Digital Wireless provides a 24-bit/48kHz digital audio quality and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) meeting the needs of demanding installed applications. Now Shure has expanded its ULX-D offering with the introduction of the new Dual and Quad Receivers.

The ULXD4D (Dual) and ULXD4Q (Quad) come with an extensive set of additional features including High Density Mode, Bodypack Frequency Diversity and DANTE digital audio networking.

Specifically designed for high channel count applications requiring a working range u

UK - Following the transfer of the show to The Old Truman Brewery, Julian Chiverton, sales director of Doughty Engineering, said, "We enjoyed the busiest ABTT we've ever had. Our guys were talking to visitors most of the time, and I'm really pleased with the way the show went."

Of particular interest was Doughty's new Follow Spot Mount, specifically designed to enable a follow spot to be firmly positioned on a rail and give an exceptionally smooth movement. With rotation of a full 360 degrees, the Follow Spot Mount, which has a low friction plate to ensure an easy, smooth mo

UK - Following the successful launch of the PLCyc1 LED and the LED Studio Panel at Frankfurt Pro-Light and Sound earlier this year, the team at Philips Selecon headed to London's ABTT Show with the latest addition to the range - the prototype LED Fresnel.

A timely debut - the ABTT Show followed closely behind the Theatres Trust Conference on Delivering Sustainable Theatres. Graham Eales, general manager for Philips Selecon discusses, "The prototype LED Fresnel is built around the same engine as the popular Selecon PLCyc1 , PL1 and PL3 LED luminaires. Not only does it look and beh

China - Aluminium trussing, staging and roof systems manufacturer Milos enjoyed a very busy 2012 PALM Expo exhibition in Beijing, which was held at the New China International Exhibition Centre in May.

As an international company with bases in both Europe and Asia, the exhibition was seen as a key event and opportunity for Milos to expand its business in the region's constantly growing entertainment technology sector - for which PALM Expo is China's largest and most established trade show.

MIlos was represented by Marek Zubor - technical supervisor and Stephen Huang MD of Milos Guan

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