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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
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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 [...]

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ETC announces retirement of Expression and Express line of consoles

Published in July 16th, 2008
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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 [...]

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Columbus McKinnon price increase

Published in July 8th, 2008
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And the hits just keep on coming! CM has announced a modest price increase, effective 4 August 2008.
Schraff

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Energy costs continue to drive up prices

Published in July 7th, 2008
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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 [...]

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ETC announces release of Pharos Designer v1.5.1 software!

Published in July 3rd, 2008
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ETC announces the release of updated software for Pharos™ architectural control systems. Pharos Designer 1.5.1 adds many new features and fixes, including:

Support for the Pharos LPC X, including expanded system limits and capacities, as well as pixel matrices and fixture layout
Improved Web interface
The ability to transfer show files from an LPC
Windows® Vista™ compatibility
Displaying DVI output [...]

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American DJ raises prices!

Published in June 24th, 2008
Posted by schraff in Manufacturers' Updates
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Good afternoon. American DJ just advised us that they are going to implement a 10% to 15% price increase, effective as of July 15th.

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