PR Lighting at French Quarry

The French company, Budillon Rabatel has invested €15million ($20.5m) in upgrading its alluvial quarry at Izeaux, in southeastern France. For the special inauguration, the company called upon sound, light, and video specialists, Euro Sono Alex T'Rem, to supply lighting for this tomb-like location, spread over 100 hectares. The exact location of this gravel pit is called Mollard Mouton, and many political and economic celebrities visited the Iséroise region for the occasion. Featured were six PR Lighting XLED 590 LED moving head washlights, which had to perform in the difficult conditions. These were accompanied by effects from StarWay -- all working in harmony to create a spectacular show under the open skies.

According to Alexandre Jeannerod, manager of Euro Sono, while conditions were hazardous, this could not prevent the lighting from functioning perfectly.

He says that the powerful XLEDs helped to provide a perfect solution. Using Osram's Diamond Dragon LED, one of the world's brightest single-chip SMT LEDs (offering up to 250 lumens). Each head contains ninety 5W LED's (30 red, 30 green, 30 blue), and the billed average lamp life is 100,000 hours.

"All in all, the XLED 590 is an excellent product, which blew me away and I hope to acquire some more of these fixtures soon," confirms Jeannerod.

He adds that while breaking up large stones in a quarry hardly sounds exotic, bathed in so much light one could have been on the banks of the Nile.

All PR Lighting products are distributed in France by CSI France.