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USA - Owing to increased interest in the Theatre examination, the ETCP Council has decided to push the launch of the new Theatre Rigging test form to 1 October, 2012 instead of the original launch at the beginning of September. To gather the statistical data necessary to properly score the exam, it is essential that as many Theatre Riggers as possible are tested during the month of October.

To further this initiative, the test administration fee of $675 for groups of seven or more will be waived for the month of October only. Candidate application fees will still apply and score repor

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UK - State Automation will be showcasing their latest additions to their LED Theatre product range at PLASA 2012.

The INCAND-Air is a high power LED based downlight system developed for retrofitting into the mounting hardware of existing high power downlights, or for use as a complete luminaire for new installations.

It features a specifically developed LED light engine that is capable of producing beautiful, high CRI whites of any CCT and accurately replicates the colour temperature shift that is characteristic of traditional theatre lamps when dimmed. INCAND-AIR has the benefit of

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UK - The new dealer support programme from Dirty Rigger was trialled with great success at USA's Witsend Group.

Designed to offer dealers and distributors quality support, the new scheme allows dealers to have custom branded marketing material to aid the sales and brand awareness of the Dirty Rigger range.

Le Mark export manager Matt Every says, "Selling products is a team effort, I want to work together with our dealers to make everything as effective as possible. We've always offered standard marketing material but the new custom branded items really raised the bar in our dea

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Czech Republic - Trussing and staging manufacturer Milos Group has announced the recent acquisition of two leading trussing and staging brands - Litec and Tomcat.

The new deal makes Milos the largest global aluminium trussing and staging group with the addition of major manufacturing bases in Italy, Slovakia, Mexico and the US to strengthen their 250,000sq.ft of production facilities in the Czech Republic and Asia.

Milos's CEO Frantisek Zykan states, "We are very excited with this announcement. Our strategy has always been to deliver the best products made to the highest standa

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UK - A number of important additions to the London edition of the PLASA Professional Development Programme have been announced. The 80 free-to-attend sessions form the backbone of the 2012 edition of the PLASA Show, which takes place on Sunday 9 - Wednesday 12 September, live at Earls Court in London. From the creative minds of world-renowned LDs and sound engineers, to the visionaries of tomorrow's technology, the PLASA Professional Development Programme is the largest free knowledge sharing event of its kind.

"The new style programme forms a roadmap for the next twelve months i

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UK - Manchester based lighting and rigging specialists dbn have installed a subtle trussing infrastructure and produced a creative rigging solution at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester to showcase the work of Pascale Martine Tayou.

Tayou is one of 33 artists and a host of musicians from 11 West African countries featured in We Face Forward, a season of contemporary art and music from the region taking place across three galleries, two museums, four music venues, libraries, community spaces and one art bus in the city.

The World Falls Apart, Tayou's new work speci

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UK - Star Events Group, the first UK purchaser of the new CyberMotion stage automation system from XLNT's UK sales partner Lift Turn Move, has given the system a début on three weeks of BT London Live shows in Hyde Park which ended Sunday 13 August.

The systems were bought by Star Events Group which had been tasked to supply their services for the BT London Live events in a sun-drenched Hyde Park.

Fifty-one metres of CyberMotion C-Track, along with four active and two passive C-Trolleys, were used to safely lift and split a giant 144m² screen weighing 5200 kg,

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UK - Automation specialists Stage Technologies are planning a more extensive presence at PLASA 2012 than in recent years. The company will be presenting a seminar at the PLASA Professional Development Programme, taking part in two panels at the concurrent PLASA Rigging Conference, and returning to the show's Hall 1 after several years in Hall 2, to exhibit its products and meet up with customers.

As usual, visitors to the Stage Technologies stand will have the chance to speak to reps from the group's UK and overseas offices, with staff from Las Vegas planning to be on site for the dur

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Tüchler will be exhibiting for the first time at PLASA 2012 on stand no 2-R10.

Tüchler has specialised in flame retardant fabrics, flame retardant, dance and stage flooring since the 1970s and, since 1990s, has developed stage technology solutions including the LIFT-IT compact pile winches, ZOOM and HANDY stage platforms, XT and TT curtain track systems, and the RZ drape systems.

For PLASA 2012, Tüchler will be concentrating on products from its range of flooring, projection screens, textiles, chain hoists and curtain tracks. They will also be showing the Stage Platform Zoom 1200 which

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UK - British Harlequin will be presenting a comprehensive range of floors for dance, theatre, display and events on stand 1 L31 at London's PLASA Show, 9-12 September 2012.

Harlequin's popular floors for display are being increasingly used for major television productions and events, to add colour, gloss and sparkle to the set. Harlequin also builds and installs custom designed floors for theatres, performing arts centres and cruise ships. The Harlequin name is of course familiar to dance companies and dance schools around the world. Within the global dance community, Harlequin is res

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UK - Stageco and Tait Technologies will once again be exhibiting together with a shared stand at PLASA 2012 following a highly successful year working alongside one another across Europe.

The two companies opened a joint London office in May 2011, building on years of working alongside each other across a range of projects and as a step towards further cementing their European strategic alliance.

This year Stageco and Tait Technologies respectively, have continued to provide innovative staging solutions and scenic motion technology to a number of international events, prominently th

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UK - Prolyte Group will be exhibiting on stand 1-G38 at PLASA 2012. Prolyte Group recently marked a milestone in its history with the acquisition of award-winning stage set fabrication company Brilliant Stages. This internationally renowned company specialises in the design and construction of stage sets and custom fabrications for the touring and events industry. The Prolyte Group stand will have an area dedicated to Brilliant Stages, and key representatives will be available at the show to answer your questions and discuss their latest projects.

Prolyte will showcase the newest vers

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UK - On the eve of PLASA 2012, PLASA has announced a new home and dateline for the PLASA Show in 2013. The UK's only international event for entertainment and installation technology will take place at ExCeL London from 6-9 October 2013.

"After 21 years at Earls Court & Olympia, the time is now right for the PLASA Show to leave its current home," said PLASA CEO Matthew Griffiths. "We have hugely ambitious plans for the future of the event, and the state-of-the-art facilities at ExCeL support this vision. ExCeL is a cutting-edge, purpose-built exhibition venue with the i

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UK - Le Mark's Gloss Black StudioTak Studio Floor has once again be seen on one of Channel 4's primetime shows. The floors was used on the main set for a new series of The Angelos Epithemiou Show which has already been a huge hit. Landing straight into a Friday night slot, with some of the UK's biggest names appearing in recent episodes.

Le Mark's Sharon Marshall says, "The set looks stunning and it's always a great achievement to see our stage floor in use, especially on such primetime shows. StudioTak is such an ideal product for non-permanent sets as the floor can easil

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UK - The third annual PLASA Rigging Conference will welcome over 200 international attendees at the Earls Court Conference Centre in London on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 September 2012.

With UK and worldwide bookings well up on last year and with a strong international flavour to its speakers and seminar sessions, the PLASA Rigging Conference confirms its status as the premier event worldwide dedicated to all things rigging.

Opening with an unmissable speech from original 'Disney Rigger' Roy Bickel, one of the founders of the modern rigging industry and closing with Question Time

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UK - Although a regular exhibitor, this year Doughty has its own stand for the first time at PLASA and will be showing a host of new products on stand 1-E7.

The Baby Quick Trigger clamp is designed specifically for smaller truss sizes, being adjustable to diameters of 25mm-38mm and, with TUV approval pending, comes in polished aluminium or satin black.

Recently appointed the UK distributor for Reutlinger, Doughty will be showing their range of cable holders, in two sizes to suspend loads of up to 130kg and 330kg on wire rope. Reutlinger cable holders have been specifically designed

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UK - New for 2012, the Dirty Rigger Venta-Cool was a design concept put forward by the Dirty Rigger community, looking for a durable rigger glove designed to minimise the 'sweaty hand effect' when working indoors or in hot outdoor conditions. This was previously untapped ground for the Dirty Rigger development team who then set out to find some of the hottest hands in the industry and design a glove "which was unrivalled in breathability across the entire Dirty Rigger range".

The design and testing period which ran over the last 12 months saw the new Venta-Cool rigger gloves

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UK - Watched by a global audience of four billion, the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony has been hailed as a spectacular success - and Huntingdon based specialist flooring company Le Mark played a vital role by converting an original design into a printable format, producing and then installing the 'reveal' floor which featured so prominently in the 'Pandemonium' section of the ceremony.

Linda Gibbons, Le Mark, sales director, explains, "We had been working on this major project for over four months but, along with all other ceremony suppliers, we were asked to 'save the sec

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UK - The ShowTex Acoustic Baffle has been nominated for a Theatres Trust People's Choice Award and a PLASA Innovation Award.

This new flexible fabric panel is proof that stage technology and the environment can go hand in hand.

Independent laboratory research confirms the Acoustic Baffle from ShowTex achieves better sound absorption of very low frequency sound levels than any other baffle on the market today with just half the fabric thickness of other systems.

Made from 100% recycled material, the flame retardant baffle provides an ecological solution for sound absorption.

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Poland - Dirty Rigger gained even further success from its new dealer support programme after a recent trip to visit new and existing dealers in Poland. The visit resulted in securing a new distribution deal with Warsaw based MILSO.

Founded in 1990, MILSO originally began as a specialist supplier to the professional photography industry where they have since rapidly grown to be one of Poland's prime TV, Film & Photography equipment suppliers.

MILSO's Justyna Gaudziak says, "We really appreciated Hannah & Stuart visiting us here in Poland and it gave us even more confidence in t

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UK - Le Mark produced and printed the iconic London Street Map floor on to their high gloss black 'Harmony' performance stage flooring.

This stunning floor was printed and installed by the Le Mark team and revealed to a global audience of over 4 billion people during the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.

Many will remember the 'Pandemonium' section of the ceremony and how this floor was slowly revealed . The jagged design bounced and reflected the light of the molten rings being formed . An image captured by both TV and photographers and transmitted worldwide ,proving that Britain coul

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UK - At this year's PLASA Show in London's Earls Court, Le Mark will introduce two new compression sprung floors, both of which have already received high praise from professional dance establishments throughout the UK.

Le Mark's expanding dance floor installation team will also be showcasing the new Nocturne dance vinyl, a multipurpose floor covering that is fast becoming the standard for theatre and performing arts venues.

A major feature to the stand this year will be a specially commissioned printed floor using Le Mark's unique Coda flooring system. Members of this year's London

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UK - CAST is pulling out all the stops for PLASA 2012 with the debut of not one, but four new products, plus an educational seminar. PLASA will be held at Earls Court in London, 9-12 September and CAST will be exhibiting in Stand 1-E27.

The latest wysiwyg release, R29, has so many new features and improvements, your job instantly becomes more proficient, more professional and more profitable, says the company. New features in R29 include the ability to touch select fixtures and manipulate in Shaded View, create camera flies in 6D, a new six degrees of freedom camera system, drawing pu

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UK - Le Mark's Dirty Rigger team chose PLASA 2012 to launch four new PPE and accessory items, including the Glowman LED glove range.

Steve Marshall Dirty Rigger project manager commented, "Strongest sales on day one came from the new fully EN rated Tool Lanyard system , in particular the interchangeable clip and carabiner system. This allows for tools to be pre connected before commencing work. Strong export interest has come from the new pulsing or fixed beam LED Radio and accessory front of body radio and equipment carrier.

(Jim Evans)

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