UK - TSC Music has retained it highly valued ‘Investors In People’ recognition for a record third time.The Crawley-based company, which produces professional business music compilations and systems to high street shops and corporate brands across the UK, has become the only company in its market to earn this status and successfully maintain it three times in a row, after satisfying IiP inspectors during the company’s recent reassessment.
Having surpassed necessary key indicators, the IiP standard helps TSC to continue working more closely with its staff to monitor and develop employee skills in an effort to becoming a more customer-focused organisation.
Chairman and managing director Neal Abdool, said: "We recognize staff as our most valuable asset and with the right nurturing and appropriate training they make the difference that counts in TSC achieving its short term goals and objectives as well as its long term mission and vision."
For 27 years TSC has run its UK operations from Crawley, where it has flourished from its humble beginnings back in 1975 as a one-man band operating out of the MD’s spare room. Today, the company has become a nation-wide operation employing over 25 staff at its head office, recording studio and production facilities located at Spindle Way, with a regional office in the Midlands and a network of agents throughout the country.
TSC’s core business involves the profiling and compiling of various styles and genres of music into bespoke productions tailored to individual businesses to complimen
UK - Crest Audio's X-Rack mixers have been proving to be a popular choice for audio engineers across the country. With the XR20 FOH console seeing use with W.E. Audio during the Queen's Jubilee celebrations in Portsmouth and with SSE in the Top of the Pops Star Bar, amongst others, it is possibly the XR-M monitor console that has proved to be the more popular of the range.
Last year saw Mick Potter specifying two XRMs for use on the monitor system for the West End hit Bombay Dreams with sound supplier Orbital Sound. Greg Clarke, an independent Sound Designer, had seen these in action and was impressed enough to specify them for the current RSC touring season of Merry Wives of Windsor and Corialanus.
The photos show the console in action at The Swan Theatre in Stratford with regional tour sound supervisor Steve Mayo. Steve comments: "The XRM was an ideal choice for this job, combining all the features of a large monitor console in a 10U space. The sound quality is excellent and the way it is packaged make it very easy to integrate into our system - the other thing is there's no other console like it!"
Housed in a compact 10 rack-space package, the Crest XRM can provide up to 12 independent mono mixes, or up to six stereo mixes for stereo ‘in-ear’ monitoring systems. The XRM takes up minimal space in a sound control booth, and is small enough to travel as carry-on luggage.
Featuring the superior audio performance and road-rugged construction of Crest's popular X-Rack Series mixers, the XRM includes a 20-input microphone splitter system wit
UK - DMX Music, an international digital music, imaging and messaging provider, has launched two new products - ProFusion X and ProFusion D, created to deliver highly customized in-store music and messaging programmes to retailers.
ProFusion X is an innovative multi-zone delivery system that stores and plays up to 1000 hours of professionally programmed music, audio advertising and video. Capitalizing on DMX Music’s music profiling, ProFusion X allows retailers to use in-store audio-visuals as a marketing tool. It is also designed to deliver branded in-store Retail Radio complete with DJs, idents, sonic triggers and advertising, all produced by DMX Music’s production department.
ProFusion D is a cost-effective way for retailers to take their first step into the world of professionally programmed digital music. Unlike CD players and tape decks, Profusion D uses MP3 technology to continuously play back up to 20 hours of music from one single CD. Retailers can choose from 37 professionally programmed channels updated regularly with the latest music from around the world.
(Ruth Rossington)
UK - In the April issue of Lighting&Sound International magazine, our regular Technical Focus section will be looking at the technology related to the development and manufacture of smoke/dry ice and haze machines. We will also assess some of the current standards and safety issues in this area, including ESTA's current work on a new standard covering Theatrical Fog Effects and Equity’s study of the effects of theatrical smoke. This will be followed by a brief profile of the main manufacturers and coverage of a selection of the leading products in the marketplace.
If you would like your product to be featured in this report, please e-mail L&SI’s technical editor James Eade at the e-mail address below before Friday 28 March, 2003.
(Ruth Rossington)
UK - Power Gems, best known for its design and manufacture of electronic HMI ballasts, has released the first in a series of high frequency ballasts for the remote control of fluorescent fixtures used in the motion picture and TV lighting businesses. This four-tube model, FB4/2P, automatically drives both 4ft and 2ft tubes without the need for manual selection. Additionally, a local dimmer and a DMX512 input, provides continuous dimming from full light output at 75W down to 1% light output. Individual tube cut switches are provided for greater flexibility and save the need to disconnect tubes at the fixture. True tube running indicator LEDs are provided for each tube.
The design team’s brief was to come up with a ‘rugged ballast’ with a reduced parts count. The result is a unique four-tube power circuit which employs just three FETs, including a ‘unity’ power factor corrected (alf) input, thus permitting its use worldwide on voltages from 90V -260V.
Power Gems’ tube ignition circuit has been demonstrated to strike tubes that other ballasts cannot, which may save the user money. The ballast is electronically protected against failure from live connection-disconnection of the fixture and reduces the risk of electric shock when re-connecting live end caps.
(Ruth Rossington)
UK / Germany - PCM, the UK-based specialist in lifting, moving and flying equipment, used the recent Frankfurt ProLight+Sound show to launch its new sales and manufacturing operation for special Columbus McKinnon Lodestar hoists to the German market. PCM is renowned for establishing the Lodestar motor as an industry standard in the UK and Europe. This started in the early 1990s, and the company continues to be the most proactive European supplier and stockist for these industry standard hoists.
This latest strategic move leaves PCM’s German sister company, Augsburg-based Pfaff Stage Technologies (PST), free to concentrate on the design, sale and installation of major special projects. Recent examples of PST’s work in this area include a project for the Flora Theatre in Hamburg, a huge new theatre to which PST supplied 24 customized electric winches.
PCM’s managing director John Jones told us: "PCM’s European operation is now consolidated with the inclusion of Germany. PCM has always specialized in chain hoists, and having the European market under one roof makes economic sense and further improves efficiency. Frankfurt was also the obvious place to launch the new service."
At the show, PCM showed a selection of standard CM Lodestar and Prostar hoists as well as the BGV C1/ VBG 70 Lodestar hoists with special safety features such as double brakes, double safety factor with a chain safety factor of 10:1; four-position limit switches including emergency switches; under/overload electronic protection and a slack chain detection dev
UK - A recent comprehensive install in the Soho Cafe Bar in Christchurch, Dorset, by the CPS Group is an impressive example of the often complex brief such installations require. "Our brief was to install a sound system which was truly multi-purpose," explains Richard Colegate of the CPS (Complete Production Solutions) Group.
"The venue is a fashionable wine bar/pizzeria which has three distinctly different clientele types. On weekday daytimes the system is required to provide a low-level background music source throughout the whole venue at an even level with even coverage. With things livening up considerably on weekday evenings, the system then provides dance floor music levels on the main dance area, and bar/club style programme material throughout the venue. This also has to cater for DJs doing personal appearances some nights. Friday and Saturday night are, by definition, busier and louder than the other weekdays.
"On certain weekends the venue also plays sports events on a plasma screen and becomes more of a sports bar. Hence the system needs to be able to reproduce the dynamics associated with sports events. At the same time, the system still has to provide unobtrusive background music in the outer areas of the bar, with as little ‘crosstalk’ between the two areas as possible, requiring careful and accurate loudspeaker placement and power tapering so as not to alienate the normal clientele."
The whole system is thus divided into zones which run at pre-set relative levels, and can be fed with different signals (dancef
UK - The education market has traditionally been a strong business area for Strand Lighting thanks toits diverse range of products suitable for use in Educational facilities of all sizes. The introduction at PLASA last year of a wide range of new controls and dimmers aimed at this market has further enhanced the company’s product range, and in support of this, Strand has now launched a new website dedicated to the Education Market and those who specify products for it.
(Ruth Rossington)
UK - The Canford Group has announced a big increase in profits. Pre-tax profits rose from £142,000 in 2001 to £545,000 in 2002. Figures released recently show that while total sales fell by £1.25m in the last financial year, profits substantially increased.
The fall in sales was largely down to a decline in sales to France and Germany, reflecting weak European demand, and a planned reduction in low margin business, but exports overall remained stable and contributed just under 30% to the group’s turnover. Sales to the Middle East were particularly strong, trebling to £600,000, whilst sales to the Irish republic were also good thanks to the completion of a £1m contract with the Irish police. NEAL, the security side of the Group’s business continues to strengthen.
Gross margins improved by just under one per cent, and interest costs were substantially reduced as the result of a debt reduction programme financed from cashflow. Company founder Iain Elliott told us: "These results demonstrate that even in tough times, companies like Canford can continue to do well. The commitment and dedication of our staff have contributed much to these results."
Plans for 2003 include the development of the education part of the business, and an online ordering capability, which will be launched in the summer. Since the financial year end in October, the company has bought back a 35% stake held by 3i, and the company has now embarked on an acquisition strategy which will further consolidate its position in the north east.
(Ruth Rossington)
UK - As Trevor Nunn's reign at the Royal National Theatre ends, DHA Lighting has just concluded work on three major productions at the theatre. Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, Nunn’s revival of the Cole Porter musical, Anything Goes, and the director’s swansong, Shakespeare’s Love's Labour Lost, all called on the expertise of DHA staff as well as the company’s products. DHA has a long association with the theatre and has contributed to many prestige productions. The company’s founder, lighting designer David Hersey, has himself lit a number of acclaimed shows over the past 30 years.
DHA was called upon last summer to work with Hersey and set designer Bill Dudley on Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia, nominated for four Olivier awards, including best set design and best lighting design. With Anything Goes, expertise in pre-distorting slides called for the talents of DHA's Wyatt Enever. He was presented with a curved cyclorama on which images of a transatlantic journey from a New York skyline to the Isle of Wight Needles would be projected, and it looked like a straightforward task. Working closely with David Hersey, Enever planned to use three Pani BP4 large-format projectors back projecting a seamless image on to the curved cyc which formed the backdrop of John Gunter's striking set. "As is so often the case, it wasn't that simple," says Enever. He recalls: "The architecture of the theatre meant that we couldn't put the projectors in the ideal positions as there were pillars in th
UK - This week has seen the launch of The Marketing Business, a company which offers SMEs in the entertainment technology industry, the full range of marketing expertise, from business development and export advice to corporate identity and public relations.
The Marketing Business is an informal association of three companies which together have over 60 years experience in the entertainment technology business and which individually are recognized as experts in their field: PE Consulting, Harmer PR and The Wells Partnership. PE Consulting was formed in 2002 by Peter Ed, previously marketing director for ETC Europe and business development manager for Strand Lighting. Peter’s experience will be of great benefit to companies wishing to expand their business by moving into exporting or into new market segments by combining tried and tested marketing techniques with in-depth knowledge of the entertainment technology industry. Harmer Public Relations, which provides the public relations and copy writing side of the operation, has enjoyed continuous links with the entertainment technology business ever since its formation by Lesley Harmer in 1980. Current agency clients include AVW Controls, ETC and Theatre Projects Consultants. The last of the trio is The Wells Partnership, whose graphic design skills have been used by many companies in the business, including Rosco, Wybron and MAVCO.
Marketing is all about communication but, as Peter Ed points out, what and how you communicate isn’t simply a case of the sales director working a few additional hours each w
UK - Asked to provide sound services for American legend Arthur Lee and Love, Worcester-based RMPA considered that the UK tour would offer a relatively gentle opportunity to ease themselves back into the rock and roll rental market. Instead, Lee's profile went through the roof, with the star being mobbed by MPs amongst others, and shows selling out all over the country.
Arthur Lee and the band he fronted, Love, are acknowledged as one of the finest and most influential groups of the late 60s, their psychedelic-folk masterpiece, Forever Changes, regularly appearing high in polls of the greatest albums of all time. Their comeback tour included several weeks in the UK, with RMPA providing an Electro-Voice system with Midas control when required.
"The show was already challenging," says Rick Bailey of RMPA, "featuring a rock band plus eight-piece orchestra on stage. But as the word got out and the media got going, the audience capacity went from 30% to full houses; at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, for example, they had to open the balcony to cope with the demand for extra tickets."
Surprisingly, RMPA did not have to supplement their X-Array system to cope with the changing brief. A simple specification of four Xn HF cabinets with four Xb LF units, plus two Xds subs, was ground-stacked each side of the stage. "Most systems would have struggled," explains Bailey, who acted as systems engineer for the tour, "but, far from having to bring in extra gear, we had to take it out. On some shows, we unplugged the subs because we didn't need
UK - On Monday 24 March 2003, the nva organisation, one of the UK's most successful independent arts charities, will unveil two major outdoor lighting schemes for the Glasgow College of Building & Printing and the Glasgow Tidal Weir at Glasgow Green.
Both schemes have been designed by David Bryant of Spirit Design UK, and are part of Glasgow City Council's Lighting Strategy for the City. nva began to develop artist-led lighting designs for buildings having been awarded a grant of £95,000 from the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund. A number of keynote buildings, structures and architectural details were and partnership funding was acquired through Glasgow City Council's £2.4m lighting strategy and from the building owners themselves.
The two lighting schemes being launched this spring are the most ambitious to date and will set a benchmark for urban lighting design in terms of scale, execution and technology. Bryant’s lighting scheme for the Glasgow College of Building & Printing transforms the Le Corbusier-influenced rooftop. The new design, which is based around LED and fibre-optic technology, punctuates the lively shipping references on the roof level, articulating the funnel and deck shapes with gently contrasting colours. For the Glasgow Tidal Weir, Bryant again used LED fixtures to create a simple but bold illumination of the bridge fascia, piers and support structures, lifting the bridge out of the surrounding landscape. Additional drama is added with the use of lights focused onto the water maximizing reflections from the water spume. An
UK - Lumileds LED technology has been used by lighting specialist Tryka LED Ltd as part of a project to light the outside of the new M Club in Belfast. Developed as an additional element to the overall M Club launch, the external lighting project was designed around the building, with the glass windows at the front of the club providing the ideal basis for an LED lighting system. Initially tested on a single window, the design was finalized by PSD Electronics, who worked with Tryka to achieve the desired control and effects.
The project utilizes the Tryka Strip Module 36 in two different lengths - 22 strips at 1200mm and 34 strips at 1700mm. In total, 2016 Luxeon LEDs, 672 each of RGB, have been used to light the external fascia of the M Club. By using a standard silver film over the interior of each window, together with a sealed 'light box', Tryka was able to create a dramatic LED solution with a smooth, evenly lit surface that captures the light and allows greater control and flexibility in the lighting effects. A diffuser was also used over the LEDs to soften the output.
Lighting control is handled by the Martin Light Jockey system used in the main club and bar areas. The system was pre-programmed by PSD Electronics using the emulator software.
At Bar Blue in Felixstowe, Lumileds LEDs have also been used by Tryka in another project to light the bar area and steps. The installation was handled by Code 1 and the effects achieved by connecting the system to a LightProcessor QCommander.
(Ruth Rossington)
Australia - Port Fairy, a coastal village south west of Melbourne, Australia, held its annual Port Fairy Folk Festival over the March Victorian Labour Day holiday weekend, and this year the event was attended by over 15,000 people, entertained by more than 130 acts including 20 international acts.
Performers came from as far as Ireland, Scotland and the USA to join well known local performers such as Jenny Morris, Joe Cameleri, the Waifs and David Bridie for the four-day festival. Powa Audio were contracted to provide sound and lights for four of the seven stages, with Phaseshift Productions supplying the lighting.
Well known lighting industry figure Dave Jackson was engaged to design and operate Stage 2 for the festival. Drawing on the experience of previous years he built a design based around subtle projections and soft moods. X.Spots (eight in total) were selected as the key intelligent lighting fixture to provide a wide range of different looks, while ensuring that the parameters for each act were fulfilled.
In what was a major outing and a real test, the festival used Flying Pig Systems’ new Wholehog III system for control, plus a Wholehog Mini Playback wing. Running the latest software release, the Hog III performed seamlessly, with Jackson commenting on the ease and flexibility of live editing and updates in particular.
(Lee Baldock)
UK - Following the creation of its dedicated pro audio sales department last year, Birmingham's SSE Hire Ltd has announced a new addition to its sales portfolio - the Midas Venice mixing console.
The company has become a member of the exclusive main dealer network for the Venice consoles and now offers potential and existing Venice users the full range of services which SSE's clients benefit from, including sales, service and custom flightcase manufacture. This latest addition to SSE's sales lines joins an already formidable line-up including Nexo, Camco, InnovaSon, Klark Teknik and Allen & Heath.
(Ruth Rossington)
UK - Few in the entertainment and installation industries can have failed to notice how LEDs have transcended their original role as indicators, to become true illuminators. They are 90% energy efficient (compared to just 10% for tungsten), can be made to produce a ‘daylight’ white light, are virtually unbreakable, have life spans of up to 100,000 hours and produce minimal heat. They are poised to become the standard light source, taking over from incandescent sources in many applications, from traffic indicators to street lighting.
Wavicle is a new company set up by former lighting designer and technician Nick Cooke to deal in torches, lanterns and headlamps based on the latest advances in LED and electroluminescent light sources. The advantages offered by LEDs are combined in these products to produce lightweight hand-held lighting instruments. The user benefits by having a highly robust and trustworthy light source at their disposal, which doesn’t weigh them down or require frequent and costly battery changes to maintain a usable level of working light.
A wide range of items from a number of manufacturers is available for purchase online from the Wavicle website and plans are already in place to expand the range of products.
(Ruth Rossington)
Spain - Soundart the Spanish specialist in DSP systems, in partnership with SpinAudio Software, has announced the full release of a software plug-in ported to Soundart’s Chameleon platform - the world’s first fully re-programmable DSP-based rack-unit.
FXDesigner from SpinAudio is the first VST/DX plug-in to be ported to the Chameleon platform. It is a delay-based digital audio effects processor with a flexible signal processing design that allows to produce such audio effects as chorus, flanger, phaser, spatial effects, various reverbs and any combination of above. FXDesigner offers six modulated delay lines with LP/HP filter sections, six freely assignable LFOs and flexible tap interconnection matrix. The plug-in is perfectly suited for any experimental electronic music production. FXDesigner comes with a factory bank of 70+ ready-to-use presets.
The Chameleon houses in a 1U rack the same powerful Motorola DSP processing power as found in many top-name brands of audio hardware, along with 2x24bit I/O A/D D/A converters and MIDI I/O. Low-level Soundart code allows it to effectively function as a 'blank canvas' for talented software developers to use how they please. End-users load applications via MIDI and the Chameleon instantly becomes a completely different tool. The uniting of the Chameleon 'blank canvas' DSP hardware with speciality software leads the way to a new trend in the audio software industry, led by Soundart and SpinAudio. Watch this space.
SpinAudio develop innovative, highly optimized DSP processing applications and supplementary t
UK - Former Audio-Technica sales manager Rod Geary has joined forces with Chris Collings of Aspen Media to create Gearline Marketing, a professional sales management company working in the entertainment technology and commercial installation markets which provides face-to-face contact with a dealer or contractor on behalf of manufacturers or distributors.
Geary explained the reasoning behind the new venture: "Having studied the success of commission-based manufacturers’ representatives in the United States, I believe that with our integrated approach - the right team and the right lines - our model will be very successful in the UK. The salaries, cars, overnight stays, pensions and all the other associated costs make a single line sales team very expensive to maintain. Out-sourcing sales to Gearline Marketing cuts the supply channel costs for manufacturers and distributors, sharing those overheads with a number of other complementary lines.
As part of his research into the viability of establishing a professional sales management company in the UK, Geary approached Hemel Hempstead-based pro audio distributor Aspen Media and managing director Collings immediately saw the potential. "Being a relatively small, specialist company, we found the costs of setting up a sales team to be prohibitive, so when Rod first came to me with this idea it was of significant interest. It offered us something we couldn't have justified independently. Hence we have put both the brands we represent and the established infrastructure of Aspen Media behind Rod and this n
UK - Raycom has completed the design and installation of an elaborate radio system for the new Corinthian Television facility in Chiswick Park London. As the leading supplier of professional wireless solutions, Raycom custom designed a robust frequency plan which allowed the use of a complex mix of radio equipment.
The supplied system included four Raycom RTB3211 talkback base stations. One base station is shared between Studios 1 and 2, a second is in the Green Room covering all the downstairs areas outside the studios, the third is located on the roof performance area and the fourth unit is used for the outside performance area. The latter two base stations used ‘down-firing’ antennas to contain the coverage of the radio signals.
Raycom also supplied and programmed 21 Icom IC-F22 UHF radios with belt packs, headsets, cases and chargers and other ancillary equipment to work with the base stations. The base station and aerial systems allow each of the belt pack radios to work in the four different areas ensuring maximum flexibility for the production teams.
Seven Lectrosonics IFB-T5 presenter transmitters were also supplied, four in the studios with passive antenna splitters to feed each studio, one in the Green Room, one in the roof area and the final one for the outside performance area. Four matching IFB-R5A receivers were supplied and more have already been ordered to increase flexibility.
Chris Pemberton, Raycom’s general manager, engineered an intermodulation-free frequency plan for the four Raycom base stations in the 462/469MHz band,
UK - Star Hire (Event Services) Ltd is launching Star Ice - a new outdoor temporary ice rink solution for the UK which comes with a guarantee that the rinks will freeze and stay frozen. Numerous event managers and councils who have encountered problems with other rinks have turned to Star Hire for assistance to counter the problems experienced with other rinks such as melting ice (which leads to rink closure and thereby loss of revenue), and suspect substructures.
Star Ice has been formed in partnership with European-based I.M.R. - a company with wide experience in the installation of ice rinks in Europe. I.M.R.'s cooling technology is highly efficient and has been proven to work consistently, even in the extreme temperatures of Dubai. The third partner in the consortium is power and temperature rental leader Aggreko, who will supply the chiller units, generators and boilers (for melting the ice).
Technical director Roger Barrett told us: "The new technology guarantees that the ice will stay frozen and therefore that the rinks will stay open. In addition to the technical and operational experience within the consortium, all of the logistical and health and safety issues connected to the installation of a Star Ice rink will be covered for clients." Star Ice is running a 24 hour helpline for clients.
(Ruth Rossington)
UK - Stage Technologies has announced that Kevin Taylor and Ewart Richardson will be joining its Board as directors of electrical and mechanical engineering respectively. Kevin Taylor joined Stage Technologies in 1994 as head of electrical engineering, and has been instrumental in developing Stage Technologies state of the art automation control systems. His work includes the design of the control system architectures for the Maxis range of modular axis systems and project management and electrical design for a number of prestigious projects, for amongst others Carnival and Princess Cruise lines and theatres worldwide from Walsh Bay in Sydney Australia to the Lyric Opera Chicago in the USA.
Ewart Richardson, a more recent addition to the Stage Technologies’ team joined the company full-time in September 2001 to lead the Mechanical Engineering Department although he had been designing projects and products for the company since the mid-90s. Since Richardson’s arrival, the department has gone from strength to strength and now, with a large team of full-time mechanical design engineers using sophisticated 3D modelling software, Stage Technologies is offering complete design consultancy services from mechanical elevators and gantries through to moving theatre scenery and special effects for a host of projects and large-scale events.
Nikki Scott, commercial director for Stage Technologies commented: "We are thrilled to welcome Kevin and Ewart to the Board of Directors. As the scope and scale of the global projects Stage Technologies are involved in c
UK - Saturday 8 March saw Manchester’s production community uniting to show their support for peace, on the occasion of the ‘Don’t Attack Iraq’ event organized by Manchester Coalition Against the War. Consisting of separate marches from the North and South of the city, together with one from Salford, the event culminated with some 12,000 people converging on a rain-soaked Albert Square to hear a packed programme of speakers, plus acoustic performances from Elbow and Josephine Oniyama.
The event was managed by Jon Drape Event & Production Management, with production management and trucking provided by Andy Stratford at Walk the Plank. With a budget of just £50 to cover fuel, Jon and Andy appealed to Manchester’s production supply companies to come up with the goods, a call that was met with overwhelming support.
So it was that Manchester Light & Stage supplied the stage and roof, while Fox Staging handled the disabled viewing and delay platforms and 8 by 4 dealt with the front of stage barrier. Generators were supplied by Grange Power, with mains distribution and lighting from DBN Lighting.
PA was a combined effort, with Audile supplying control and monitors, STS supplying the main Turbosound Floodlight system, Rocky’s supplying the HK Audio delay system, and Audio Alliance and Tube contributing ancillary items. In addition, Noisebox supplied an EV Deltamax system for the overspill venue at Great Northern Square.
Crew and site management were provided by Alex Knight at Handball, while Sarah Rowland from Nine Lives Productio
France - Auvitran SARL - Audio Video Transcoding - is a new technology company recently formed through a spin-off of ex-Digigram SA employees, Yves Ansade, Wlodek Sielski and Jeremie Weber. All three were involved in both research and design, as well as commercial development, at Digigram.
Auvitran will design and manufacture audio, video networking and computer-based solutions and products. Having recently signed a full IP licence with Digigram for its EtherSound technology, Auvitran will focus on this technology over the coming months, as Yves Ansade, who will be the managing director for Auvitran, explains. "Having been heavily involved in EtherSound’s development whilst with Digigram, we were keen to exploit this technology through adding value with our own EtherSound-based products, as well as offering services to other companies in our industry who may wish to leverage it for their own products. We expect EtherSound to be a major part of our business make-up over the coming years."
Wlodek Sielski will be business development director and Jeremie Weber will oversee the R&D operations at Auvitran. Completing the founding group is Robert Morgan-Males who joins in a non-executive director role.
(Ruth Rossington)