TDs and scenic artists are always working hard to stretch scenery budgets as far as they will go. Some of us are probably working harder at that now than ever before. Since soft scenery, painted drops and natural materials can be a pretty cost effective way of constructing and decorating scenic elements, I thought it [...]
Treat your scenery right (for flame retardancy, that is)
Published in October 3rd, 2008
Posted by schraff in General Information
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While everybody else is raising their prices, we’re lowering ours.
Published in August 19th, 2008
Posted by schraff in General Information
While prices on almost everything keep costing you and us more to purchase; we have decided it needs to stop somewhere and we have decided it stops here and now!
This is not a SALE and it is not a gimmick and it is not temporary. If you have or haven’t checked our prices lately, [...]
Over 500 STAGEMAKER Chain Hoists to Lift Scenery Equipment at the Olympic Games in Beijing
Published in July 17th, 2008
Posted by schraff in Manufacturers' Updates
The folks from STAGEMAKER chain motors sent the following press release over to us and I thought I’d pass it along. These folks are fairly new to the US market and are currently priced very aggressively to compete with CM (Columbus McKinnon). If anybody has experience with using these hoists on shows, we’d be interested [...]
ETC announces retirement of Expression and Express line of consoles
Published in July 16th, 2008
Posted by schraff in Manufacturers' Updates
Effective on July 18, 2008, ETC will no longer be accepting orders for the Expression® and Express™ line of control consoles. This includes the Expression 3, Insight™ 3, Express 250, Express 125, Express 72/144, Express 48/96, Express 24/48 and all Expression, Insight and Express Lighting Playback Controllers. As with all ETC products, we have reserved [...]
Columbus McKinnon price increase
Published in July 8th, 2008
Posted by schraff in Manufacturers' Updates
And the hits just keep on coming! CM has announced a modest price increase, effective 4 August 2008.
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Energy costs continue to drive up prices
Published in July 7th, 2008
Posted by schraff in Manufacturers' Updates
We received two more price increase notifications just before we left to celebrate the 4th. Pro Tape and Field Template have experienced huge increases in their manufacturing costs in the last few months and will implement price increases in July. We’re getting these increases so fast that we’re having trouble getting the data entry done [...]
American DJ raises prices!
Published in June 24th, 2008
Posted by schraff in Manufacturers' Updates
Good afternoon. American DJ just advised us that they are going to implement a 10% to 15% price increase, effective as of July 15th.
Welcome to the Production Advantage Blog
Published in June 18th, 2008
Posted by schraff in General Information
Thanks for checking this out. We’ll post product information from our manufacturers here for you to review. Please let us know about your experiences with these products. We want to know what works and what doesn’t. We’ll also post special deals that we run across to help you keep your budgets in line. We hope [...]
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Recent Entries
- Rosco Catalog #48 available at Production Advantage
- Treat your scenery right (for flame retardancy, that is)
- From “wish list” to “in the house”
- While everybody else is raising their prices, we’re lowering ours.
- ETC Workshop 2008
- Over 500 STAGEMAKER Chain Hoists to Lift Scenery Equipment at the Olympic Games in Beijing
- ETC announces retirement of Expression and Express line of consoles
- Columbus McKinnon price increase
- Energy costs continue to drive up prices
- ETC announces release of Pharos Designer v1.5.1 software!
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