An industry with energy

Greening The Big Screen Experience

was the title of this year’s UKCA Conference held at Picturehouse Central. The conference attracted over 300 cinema professionals from across the UK and beyond to discuss an important topic: the rapidly growing importance of environmental sustainability in the cinema sector.

As with many other industries, the cinema sector has been feeling the pressure to address issues related to environmental sustainability, including resource use and costs. The conference highlighted the need for action and explored ways in which we can tackle these challenges.

me on the final panel of the day, were representatives from Barco, Christie and NEC alongside WTW Scott Cinemas and The Chapter Arts, Cardiff.

Simply put, laser has brought our industry visible and fantastic improvements to the quality of the on-screen experience, but with laser in some cases using 20 per cent less energy than xenon illuminated projectors and with energy pricing recently more than doubling, it soon becomes a quick calculation to see where savings come into play.

If you missed out on that presentation you can read up on the subject on page 20 where we go into detail a little further.

There is input from Omnex’s team of dedicated professionals, whose daily focus revolves around installation, remote intervention, on-site servicing, and support. They work tirelessly to ensure that we provide the best possible service to cinemas.

We’re fortunate enough to work with a hugely diverse range of cinemas, people, and their technology, and in this issue, we’d like to highlight that diversity by introducing you to two of our team members: Pete Naples, our lifer, and Blade Frampton, who recently joined us from Merlin Cinemas — find out more about what makes them tick in our ‘60-seconds...’ interviews on pages 44-47.

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IN THIS EDITION of our newsletter, we cover a variety of topics that we hope will be of interest. As you may already know, we release our newsletter twice a year, April and October.

I hope you enjoy reading a little bit about these members of the team. It’s thanks to them and the whole Omnex family that we are able to offer the support you need when you need it.