Skip to content

Shurtape Technologies, LLC, Acquires Pro Tapes & Specialties, Inc.

Transaction poised to accelerate growth for both companies through increased investments in manufacturing capacity, sales efforts, and marketing activities

Shurtape Technologies, LLC, an industry-leading producer of pressure-sensitive tapes, today announces the acquisition of Pro Tapes & Specialties, Inc., a tape manufacturer and converter that services a variety of markets, including graphic arts, library and school supply, precision die-cutting and fabricating, contract and custom converting, retail and general industrial. The culmination of a nearly two-decade partnership, the transaction brings together two companies that share a relentless commitment to exceptional product quality and innovation as well as industry-leading customer service.Read More »Shurtape Technologies, LLC, Acquires Pro Tapes & Specialties, Inc.

David Garrett is Alive with Robe

Classic and crossover violinist David Garrett is a unique, interesting, and fun artist to light requiring a mix of treatments inspired by multiple visual genres, which is one of the many aspects – and challenges – relished by Lighting Designer Gerard Maijenburg who has worked with him for the last seven years. The European leg of Garrett’s current Alive tour featured over 200 Robe moving lights, picked by Maijenburg to energize his design.Read More »David Garrett is Alive with Robe

Proteus Excalibur™ Makes Impact for Böhse Onkelz

This past summer, Waldstadion in Frankfurt was the scene of two sold-out shows by one of Germany’s favorite rock bands over the years, Böhse Onkelz. Renowned lighting designer and longtime lighting collaborator with the band, Jerry Appelt, created a spectacular stage and lighting design for the stadium shows and ensured that the visual impact would be memorable using Elation Professional’s Proteus Excalibur™ beam moving head.Read More »Proteus Excalibur™ Makes Impact for Böhse Onkelz

LDI 2022 Helps Industry Gear Up for Busy 2023

The LDI Show returned to Las Vegas after a busy year of live event productions across North America. The aisles were busy with production pros seeking to gear up for another busy year ahead, with exhibitors unveiling as many new products as steadily improving supply chain conditions would permit.

KoRn

Crowned a fan favorite and ‘the band’s best show yet’, KoRn performs behind a transparent wall of video images and lighting effects on their Summer 2022 Tour. PLSN catches up with Production Manager Robert “Bobby” Schneider and Production/Lighting Designer Thomas “Church” Christmann to learn how it all calmly came together.

LD David Debrinay Lights ‘Allesandro Nell’Indie’ for Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

Bayreuth, Germany, an epicenter of creativity and exploration in the world of opera, hosted its third Baroque Opera Festival (BBOF) this year with a lively program of works including Allesandro Nell’Indie, which was lit by French LD David Debrinay using over 50 Robe moving lights including T1 and T2 Profiles and LEDBeam 350s.Read More »LD David Debrinay Lights ‘Allesandro Nell’Indie’ for Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

Uniview’s Manufacturing Expertise Key to its 11 Years of Industry Success

Industry-Leading Interactive Technology & Among First with RGB Gamma Calibration Technology

In pursuit of innovation, Uniview takes the lead in developing interactive technology including its interactive floor, I Series with capacitive sensors, and its interactive fixed display GX Series capacitive sensors or radar sensors.

The interactive floor I Series uses capacitive sensors to create real-time interaction through the contact between the human body and its interactive products, which adds a highlight to stage shows. Indoor fixed screen GX Series use capacitive sensors or radar sensors to achieve touch or non-touch interactivity, bringing the viewers or audience an unforgettable and extraordinary experience.Read More »Uniview’s Manufacturing Expertise Key to its 11 Years of Industry Success

GLP XDC1 IP Hybrid Allows SEEED to Shine on an Open-Air Stage


Berlin band SEEED was busy playing open-air and festival dates in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (including eight concerts in their home town alone) between May and September. LD Timo Martens has been with the 14-piece band for 22 years, and both musicians and crew are like family to him. On the other hand, 16 GLP XDC1 IP Hybrid, the new IP65 rated strobe wash hybrids, with the much-praised RGBL color mixture of the X5 Series, were traveling for the first time.Read More »GLP XDC1 IP Hybrid Allows SEEED to Shine on an Open-Air Stage

More Than 100 ADJ Fixtures Energize Raw Stage at Germany’s Biggest Outdoor Hardstyle Festival

A Collaboration between production companies Laserframe and Creative Sounds Veranstaltungstechnik recently supplied the lighting system for the second “Raw” stage at the Into The Madness Festival in Germany. The rig comprised almost exclusively ADJ fixtures including moving head beam and wash luminaires, LED blinders and the new multifunctional Jolt Bar FX LED units.

Roland Greil Uses 450 Elation Lights on Epic Bavaria Sounds 2022 Concerts in Munich

The largest open-air concerts ever held in Munich, and the largest in Germany this year, took place at the Munich Exhibition Center in August with more than 300,000 fans total attending shows by Andreas Gabalier, Helene Fischer and Robbie Williams. Roland Greil lit the epic shows and massive 150-meter wide stage using a rig that included over 450 Elation Professional luminaires.