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PROLYTE CAMPUS LIVE!

LITECONSOLE RANGE

PROLYFT AETOS RANGE

PROLYTE AWARDS

AWE-INSPIRING PROJECTS

PROLYTE GROUP AT PROLIGHT+SOUND 2013 Leading manufacturer Prolyte Group kicks off its busy schedule of exhibitions at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt, from 10-13 April 2013.

Visit the booth in Hall 9.0, Stand D91 and you’ll find an exciting mix of new products, Prolyte Campus Live!, hospitality and support. It’s the perfect opportunity to catch up on the latest developments from Prolyte Group.

MEET THE TEAM

AWARDS

Representatives from our Netherlandsbased headquarters, UK and German offices, and Prolyte Asia Pacific will be available to offer advice and guidance.

Ready to offer you the best support and service you’ll find account managers, brand managers, project specialists, customer services and marketing. So please do not hesitate to stop by the booth to discuss your requirements, or for information on Prolyte products and services.

The 8th consecutive Prolyte Group Awards Ceremony will take place during the show. We introduced the ceremony to provide recognition, thanks and support to our loyal and trusted partner network; and we are looking forward to announcing this year’s winners.

The Ceremony will be held on Friday April 12th at 17.00 hours, in advance of our traditional Stand Party.

LAST YEAR’S PROLYTE AWARD WINNERS WERE:

Distributor Award: Audio Concept C.A., Venezuela

PROLYTE GROUP AT PROLIGHT + SOUND VISIT OUR STAND: HALL 9.0 STAND D91 Award for Special Contribution: Rose Oberer, CAST Suisse

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PROLYTE APP RANGE What: Prolyte KYLo App Prolyte Locator app

When: Available now For: Apple iPhone and iPad

How great would it be to be able to find out quickly and easily, while on the move, where the nearest Prolyte Group ServicePoints and Distribution Partners are located, or where you can rent Prolyte products when you need them urgently?

Well now you can!

lists our partners and where to buy or rent Prolyte products; it provides an overview of events, campus seminars and exhibitions all in one place. If you’re a Prolyte stockist, don’t miss this unique and free opportunity to join the network – speak to a Prolyte representative to confirm your listing.

Already more than 300 Prolyte sales and rental partners are listed on our Locator app. It’s a handy tool that not only

Also available is our KYLo app - handy tool to calculate your loads on straight spans with 99% accuracy. Exact loading data for

UDL as well as PL and cantilevers, for all Prolyte truss series. Integrated manual, graphic display and tips & tricks button, make the KYLo both fun and user-friendly.

These free apps are designed to make your life easier and are available in multiple languages.

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PROLYTE CAMPUS Where: Prolight + Sound 2013 What: Prolyte Campus Live!

Who: M ichiel van der Zijde, Matthias Moeller, Ivo Mulder, Marc Hendriks

Prolyte Campus is an initiative that offers a complete program of learning activities to create awareness on the safe use of Prolyte products. Regular training and workshops are organised under the Prolyte Campus umbrella and Prolight+Sound 2013 sees us bring this successful training program to you with Prolyte Campus Live! On this page is the schedule for Friday, please look at our website for the full program.

You can find the program here www.prolyte.com/prolight-sound Or scan the above QR code

For a list of the Campus activities please go to www.prolyte.com/prolytecampus Or scan the above QR code

FRIDAY APRIL 12TH

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Time Slot:

Seminar Title:

Lecturer:

Language:

11.00 - 11.30

Anschlagen von Traversen

Matthias Moeller

DE

12.00 - 12.30

ProLyft - The next level

Michiel van der Zijde

ENG

14.00 - 14.30

Hinged ARC roof

Ivo Mulder

ENG

15.00 - 15.30

How to apply ballast safely

Marc Hendriks

ENG

16.00 - 16.30

ProLyft - The future level

Michiel van der Zijde

ENG

UCTS

ROD EW P

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PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

We’re showcasing a selection of new products including:

What: H40R

H20LB truss

• B allast Frame for MT and ST towers • Hinged Arc Roof • Dock Stage • StageDex Dolly • LiteConsole GO! • P roLyft Manual Hoists 500 and 1000kg • P roLyft AETOS hoists 500 and 1000kg

LiteConsole range PRT truss

Where: Prolyte Group stand Hall 9.0 D91

H40R Launched in 2011, the H40R truss has already made an impression on the market, and is growing in popularity. This innovative product combines the compact dimensions of Prolyte H30V truss, with the loading capacity of the larger H40V truss.

The H40R truss has three-sided webbing with thicker braces on the bottom side allowing both easy mounting of fixtures and for weight to be evenly distributed on the truss. It also avoids the complications of getting hook clamps in the correct

Look out for the dedicated flyers for more details. Our team will be on hand to offer advice and guidance on these and the broad selection of standard products also on display. Digital versions are available on our website:

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The H40R truss, at IPS, AV network London event

chord spacing along the sides of the truss.

Furthermore, the H40R has a clever spigot orientation to enable the truss to be easily fitted together on the floor before rigging.

A range of accessories make the H40R a complete rental system – seamlessly tying it in with other Prolyte products such as MPT towers.

H20LB TRUSS Designed as studio truss, the H20LB truss offers the perfect

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solution for installations where limited height is available. The H20LB is wellmatched to create matrix frames for circumstances where low headroom requires support grids with minimum heights, like studio installations, retail or exhibition applications.

The H20LB ladder truss is a frame girder - truss without the diagonal members and with rigid joints between top and bottom chords and the verticals. The standard

The S36PRT truss at Flashlight

box corner ribs, with the Prolyte conical coupling system, guarantee fast and easy assembly when compared to traditional bolted structures.

LITECONSOLE Quickly expanding as a product range on its own, renowned performance platform LiteConsole is adding a further two models to its portfolio – the LiteConsole GO! and GO!tt. These designs will be introduced at the show next to the already established LiteConsole

XPRS. GO! can bee seen in action as information desks on the Prolyte stand.

You’ll find more LiteConsoles in Halls 5.1 and 11.0 on the booths of Pioneer (5.1 C32) and Chauvet Europe (11.0 B.27), among others.

PRT TRUSS The Prolyte PreRigTruss is the perfect solution for rigging and transporting automated lights.

The rugged and user-friendly design and makes it the ideal truss for touring. The

truss can be stacked with or without the dolly. Flexible cross braces in the topside make it possible to mount the fixtures or bars at any required place.

The pin-fork connection can rotate to create vertical and horizontal corners, making it possible to build spans as well as goalpost or grid configurations.

LiteConsole XPRS

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AWE-INSPIRING PROJECTS Prolyte Group, including its Brilliant Stages and Litestructures divisions, has over three decades of experience in the design, manufacture and fabrication of creative structures. At the show, seize the opportunity to meet our project specialists, or simply be inspired by the possibilities. Here’s a snapshot of some recent projects to whet your appetite.

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BRILLIANT STAGES MUSE’S 2ND LAW TOUR Prolyte Group subsidiary Brilliant Stages designed and constructed the staging and spectacular suspended pyramid feature for Muse’s latest tour, 2nd Law, which toured Europe in late 2012 before moving to North America in 2013.

Oli Metcalfe’s design incorporates a semi-circular stage with a straight leading edge, from which projects a full width fore-stage and thrust, and which is inset with circular polycarbonate panels housing lighting effects. Tech bunkers flank each side and a curved runway circumnavigates the upstage edge. LED panels and moving heads feature heavily in the Brilliant Stages’ design which needed to incorporate the necessary support and infrastructure to accommodate this.

Brilliant Stages’ David Harrison, supported

by Brilliant’s team of highly skilled staff and project manager, Kenny Underwood, were heavily involved with the design aspect from the start. The new design has

taken the circular stage used on the 2009 Resistance tour and adapted it to form the basis of the new staging. Three existing scissor lifts were infilled, retaining just the piano lift, and two additional off-stage access stairs with handrails were added to augment the pre-existing set leading up from back stage.

The runway design ensures there is ample access and storage room sub-stage, which was a major specification from Metcalfe.

“We needed something that would

solve access problems backstage,” says Metcalfe. “Brilliant’s design has created a huge amount of space and it is very easy to get around and to store equipment.

Having everything integrated like this

means that we have been able to achieve a very clean look to the stage, even when you’re viewing from the rear aspects.”

Metcalfe specified that ‘nothing should protrude off the back deck’, both to retain the integrity of the design’s ‘clean’ lines and to avoid damaging the high shine Marley flooring which covers the stage, runway and forestage thrust. The handrail therefore packs into its own separate dolly, minimising wasted space within the cart and leaving the decking panels flush for compact and damage-free carting in separate dollies.

Overhead, the major design feature is the 5-layer pyramid faced in LED panels which hang at a 10° angle for optimum visibility by the audience. Each layer is independently rigged from 4 chain hoists and animated using a system, which synchronises the movement of each layer.

The pyramid can be lowered or raised as a whole unit or as separate layers, inverted and even lowered down onto the deck to conceal the band entirely. Brilliant Stages

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designed the pyramid as a modular system based around the customised dolly sizes to minimise transport and handling time and ensure the panels remained undamaged for the duration of the tour.

“Aside from the obvious necessity for the stage to look good, our primary requirements were that the packaging of the staging should cater for all forms of transport we were likely to encounter over the course of the tour, the systems

should minimise the real estate required to transport it, and that it was easy to assemble and disassemble. Brilliant have certainly delivered on the brief,” says production manager, Steve Iredale. www.brilliantstages.com Credit: www.olimetcalfe.com

LITESTRUCTURES HALO GLYPH LIGHTS UP LONDON Litestructures, in collaboration with Cinimod Studio, delivered the most epic of public lighting installations to mark the highly anticipated launch of the “Halo 4” Xbox 360 game.

Agency AKQA (acting on behalf of Microsoft/Xbox) commissioned Cinimod Studio to create this spectacular illuminated structure – based on the “Halo 4” Glyph symbol – which would be one of the largest and brightest man-made structures to ever fly over a capital city.

Cinimod Studio turned to Litestructures to help bring their concept to life. The solution drew on Litestructures’ experience of creating ‘impossible’ structures using aluminum components. To fulfil the brief, a selection of proprietary products from the Prolyte range were specified, including the main structure frame created from a combination of S36R truss straights and custom corners. Using the Conical Coupling System offered a great level of

accuracy and strength, whilst allowing the structure to flex with the forces applied to it. The cladding frames that held the LEDs in place were custom built to create the Glyph shape, whilst standard fixed half couplers were employed to connect these to the main structure. All bolted connections were made using specifically machined connections, to ward off vibrations, with main suspension cables between the helicopter and Glyph attached to reinforcing plates. In its entirety, the structure measured 15,2m in diameter, weighed over 3.2 tons and was illuminated by 20 KW of pure orange LED light. The system was designed and engineered

by Litestructures, with analysis, to clarify that the structure could operate under the extreme parameters imposed.

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A prebuild was carried out in the studio adjacent the Prolyte Products UK’s Wakefield base, where the initial programming of the LED system and test hang of the rigging were performed.

A team from Litestructures including Andy Field, James Chapman, Scott Joyce and Callum Abbey worked with the Cinimod Studio team to build the rig at a secret Thames-side location prior to the launch. Claudia White, Cinimod project manager, said of the experience:

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“It’s been an absolute pleasure working with Litestructures. It was such a great success, and fantastic us all working so well together to make it happen.”

Super fans and spectators were treated to an impressive aeronautical show as the Glyph flew over the River Thames, on the eve of the game’s launch, past some of the capital’s most iconic landmarks. Dynamic effects wowed crowds as they enjoyed the spectacle of one of the largest lighting art performances ever flown

under a helicopter.

The Glyph flyover makes the seemingly impossible world of science fiction a reality, and the 15,2m symbol of the Didact hovering in the skies of London seemed a fitting way to herald the next chapter of this phenomenal franchise. www.litestructures.com Credit: www.cinimodstudio.com

PROLYTE GROUP STAGE IN THE ZIGGO DOME The Ziggo Dome is Amsterdam’s new multi-use indoor arena. Built to fill the gap between the Amsterdam Arena and the Heineken Music Hall (HMH), its main hall can accommodate between 5,500 and 17,000 people - the perfect concert venue size.

Facility management for the Ziggo Dome is shared with the HMH and the temporary Vredenburg music venue in Utrecht.

Prolyte Group had already supplied stages for both venues so StageDex was the logical choice for the main stage at the Dome.

The StageDex system is based primarily at the Ziggo Dome but is available for rental to other venues where needed. It makes an ideal ‘house’ stage and is the perfect platform for acts that do not bring their own complete staging system as part of their show.

A team of experienced entertainment technology veterans was called in to

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design the overall facilities. Based on their experience with the StageDex Easy Frame A, as used in the Vredenburg venue, the team sat down with Prolyte to discuss the possibilities for a more advanced and flexible system.

As Ronald Fiolet, project manager for the Ziggo Dome, stated: “This multi-functional hall can be used in different set ups. This requires a flexible and adaptable type of stage. Based on the experience we already

had with Prolyte, we knew we could find the best solution.”

For the Ziggo Dome, the StageDex team, headed by Ralph Beukema, Senior Brand Engineer, designed an improved multilevel stage that can be used in different configurations. Each supporting frame is equipped with 4 wheels so that the complete stage acts as a rolling stage and can easily be moved in position. The support frames leave sufficient room for under stage storage, facilitating horizontal

as well as vertical corridors.

The frames were built especially to enable a variety of heights, adaptable for different events ranging from dinners, to shows, to concerts. The heights are easily adjustable and can vary between 1.5 and 2.2 metres, without the need for tools or extra equipment.

The maximum size of the stage is 30x10m and can be built in a remarkably short time, leaving room for short production times and quick changeovers.

The ultimate stability of the system is a result of combined research and experience with the HMH and Vredenburg stages. To prevent the vibration of microphone stands on the decking, Prolyte tested stages with double cross beams.

Although not necessary from a loading point of view, an extra cross beam results in a 50% reduction in vibration, offering increased on-stage comfort for performing acts.

The facility management team were so impressed with these results, not only did they specify this system for the Dome, they went on to adapt their decking at HMH to incorporate this feature too.

Prolyte supplied the following: 160 StageDex stages 200x100 – with extra middle beams 102 Easy frame C units equipped with castor wheels Credit: Gerard Henninger, Stageco

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