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Chainmaster’s Faster VarioLift
At the ProLight+Sound 2006 in Frankfurt, ChainMaster will be presenting an update of its successful VarioLift series. There can scarcely be a device in the entire stage equipment industry that has found its way into the plans of celebrated stage designers and event planners with quite such regularity as the VarioLift in the few short years since its introduction in 1998.
The device offers maximum precision and reproducibility in the positioning of chain hoists and is based on an integrated vector-controlled frequency converter, supplied by a high impulse incremental encoder. It operates with a positional accuracy of 0.2 millimetres.
The VarioLift product range includes models for loads ranging from 125 kg to 6.300 kg conforming to the BGV-C1 standard. A model is available, therefore, for applications as diverse as scenery movement at 30 m/min to the lifting of heavy loads. The update announced by ChainMaster for the Frankfurt fair promises — among other things — to be capable of realising even faster movements.
ChainMaster of Eilenburg has been producing chain hoists and controllers for theatrical and show stages since 1990, with references including the Pentagon Museum, the Kremlin and the international tours of acts like Metallica, Paul McCartney and U2. The Saxony-based firm is now one of the leading suppliers of chain hoists and chain-hoist controllers in the world. Among ChainMaster’s greatest successes has been the development of the VarioLift. As the new products multiply, the company, too, is expanding to meet increasing demand. Currently it employs some 20 workers in its own hi-tech production facility in Eilenburg. As well as developing a powerful distribution network inside Germany, ChainMaster has been particularly successful in the export market, exports currently accounting for around 60 per cent of the company’s turnover.
2nd March 2006
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