Author: Stewart Hume

AFTER INITIALLY GAINING PROMINENCE AS A KEY SUPPLIER OF AIR COOLING IN THE UAE, FLOW AIR + POWER SOLUTIONS BRANCHED OUT TO ADD POWER AND DISTRIBUTION TO ITS OFFERING. TPMEA’S STE DURHAM VISITED FLOW TO DISCUSS THE COMPANY’S ACCELERATED EVOLUTION.  Visiting Dubai-based events companies quite often means having to leave the relative shade provided by the city’s looming skyscrapers and, while Flow Air + Power Solutions’ Jebel Ali headquarters is no exception, I was reassured by one thing – at the very least, the air conditioning would be good. With the cool office climate came a warm welcome and a…

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Dubai based eclipse Staging Services supported one of the biggest and most anticipated New Year’s Eve celebrations in the region; the David Guetta NYE party. The company provided full technical supply alongside special effects support from Stage FX and lasers from Laser Grafix. The event took place in the Dubai Media City amphitheatre, a venue that the eclipse team are well acquainted with, a fact made apparent by the lack of changes requested after the initial rigging structure was built. “Nothing had to be changed, from the moment the client walked in, not even the trim heights of the trusses,” said head…

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Three new African countries, South Africa, Angola & Nigeria, embraced the singing competition with all three series recorded at and broadcast from Stage One, Sasani Studios, Johannesburg all featuring over 100 Robe moving lights prominently on their respective lighting rigs. Johannesburg based production company Multi-Media is co-ordinating and supplying all technical elements – including lighting, sound, video, rigging and staging – for broadcaster AMPN (African Media & Productions Network) TV over an 11 month period which ends in July 2016. Multi-Media’s Technical Project Manager, Chris de Lancey put together the team including Lighting Designer Joshua Cutts, who was asked on-board…

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