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Denis takes Christie development role

Details: 14 March 2016

France - Christie has announced the appointment of Dominique Denis to the position of market development manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Nitro Solutions.

While maintaining his role as events sales manager for France, Denis will also be responsible in his new role for developing Christie's Nitro Solutions range of moving yokes for video projection and LED and Xenon lighting systems, for the EMEA market.

"Dominique's appointment is an affirmation of the substantive work he's done in the events market since he joined the company in September 2006 and reflects Christie's determination to work toward the convergence of the lighting and video projection businesses," says regional director Pascal Gervais.

"The ProLight + Sound trade fair in Frankfurt

Xantech's IR systems are specifically designed to address typical challenges facing installers today

Xantech expands IR installation line

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Xantech has expanded its line of IR products with the introduction of the new CIRP (Projector IR Control), CIRS (Conference Room/Classroom Control) and CIRV (Large Venue IR Control) kits. The announcement was made by Rick Seegull, Xantech director of business development.

Developed with direct input from leading contractors and system integrators, Xantech's new IR systems are specifically designed to address typical challenges facing installers today, including IR operation with plasma or LCD TV's; interference from CFL (compact fluorescent lighting) and sunlight; and distance limitations within a single kit. These kits are specifically geared for use in classrooms, conference rooms and houses of worship and engineered for the utmost in reliability, says the company.

Two of the systems come with an amplified connecting block, which allows the connection of Xantech IR rec

AC –ET's lighting division has supplied over 30 new GLP Impression Spot One LED fixtures to Colour Sound Experiment

GLP Impression Spot Ones at Glastonbury 2011

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET)'s lighting division has supplied over 30 new GLP Impression Spot One LED fixtures to London rental company Colour Sound Experiment. These were delivered for the start of their mega busy summer festival season, which included lighting several stages at last weekend's Glastonbury 2011.

Recently shown at PLASA Focus by AC-ET (the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for GLP) the latest addition to the r Impression LED range is a high powered, fully featured, moving head spot fixture which uses a potent 400 Watt RGB LED chipset for the lightsource.

This latest sale marks Colour Sound's third major investment via AC-ET in fixtures from the GLP Impression range, boosting its inventory to now include the Spot One, 120 RZ Zoom and original Impression 90 LED fixtures.

The company's Haydn Cruickshank explains that with clients' numerous fes

Black Light adds stock and web service

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Black Light reports that, thanks to investment in new stock, it can now provide an even better service to both its hire and events customers. At the same time, the company's latest hire price list can now be downloaded from its website.

Among the new items in stock are products such as the Tiger Touch and Powercubes, both from Avolites. The Tiger Touch is a lightweight and powerful lighting controller. Powercubes are a complete dimming, mains and data distribution solution in one box.

"When you look at all the new products we have added to our stock it shows that we are committed to providing our customers with the hire technology they need at the right price," says Calder Sibbald, Black Light's events manager.

Among Black Light's other new hire stock are Strand 3 Packs. These provide 5KW dimming and complement the company's 5KW lantern stock. Black Light has

The Wind Music Awards were staged in the Arena di Verona

Coemar Infinitys light Wind Music Awards

Details: 14 March 2016

Italy The Wind Music Awards 2011 - featuring the major stars of Italian music, were held in the evenings of 27, 28 and 29 May in the Arena di Verona.

The director of photography Carlo Valagussa, along with F&P Group production, placed a long line of Coemar Infinity ACL S on the stage to create background lighting effects.

The Infinity ACL S were chosen for their power and have a high light output which is equal to that of a 1200 W projector, with low power consumption (300W). Equipped with a rotating and indexable 'aerial effect' and a beam ranging from 1.7° to 6°, they are also suitable for backlighting effects and strobe, wood light, moon flower effects.

(Jim Evans)

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