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Happy New Year for tarmLED 4x4
tarmLED 4x4 passed the hardship test in Bucharest and the RGB-video tiles are now available for rental in coverages of 100 m2 or more.
tarmLED 4x4 passed its first “official” hardship test in Bucharest’s new year’s eve celebration. The system withstood temperatures down to minus 15°C (– 26°F) and on some days extremely high humidity - with flying colours. A 50-m2 (538-ft2) screen assembled from tarmLED 4x4-tiles served as a background for the ‘Micro-Arch’ stage supplied by Stageco and yielded ultra-bright video animations.
Also, after exhibiting exclusively tarmLED 4x4 prototypes at trade shows, tarmLED GmbH & Co. KG presented a system now ready for mass production that is available for rental, effective immediately, at this year’s ‘World of Events’ show in Wiesbaden, Germany. Following an intensive testing phase, the product is now also available to the events market. Hamburg based Amptown Cases specially developed flightcases that accommodate around 100 m2 of TARMLED 4x4-tiles and guarantee safe transportation.
The first official showing of tarmLED 4x4 was held in Dubai in late May 2007, in conjunction with the PALME exhibition. The system subsequently attracted a lot of attention at last year’s ‘Showtech’ in Berlin as well as PLASA and LDI.
Managing Director Ralf Lottig noted: “tarmLED 4x4 is not intended to be a substitute for conventional video screens. The application areas for this system, which is a world first of its kind, are event and concert stages, trade-show displays, and state-of-the-art architectural illumination.”
Of interest in the area of outdoor use are that the modules qualify for Protection Class IP-65 certification (units qualifying for IP-68-certification are optionally available), are extraordinarily bright, and can be used in bright sunlight, without sacrificing visibility.
Lottig added: “Rentals of tarmLED 4x4 are available exclusively through us, which allows us to guarantee that everything involved will be properly handled and will operate perfectly on site, precisely as one would expect from tarm, which has been active on a worldwide scale for more than 20 years. Our equipment inventory will now be steadily expanded in order that even the biggest domestic and foreign productions can take advantage of our latest product.”
In picture: visible in the picture are flight cases specially developed for transporting 100 m2 of tarmLED 4x4-tiles. Standing in front of tarm’s Bochum, Germany, headquarters building are the company’s founder Ralf Lottig, Thomas Lottig, Sascha Kwasny, and Frank Freitag.
28th January 2008
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