Chroma-Q Expands HSL's Web of Clients

The Blackburn, UK -based lighting rental company, HSL has added 200 Chroma-Q Color Web 125 visual effects panels to its hire inventory, now giving the company the largest rental stock in the UK of this LED product.

Designed and manufactured by Artistic Licence, the modular 1m square, 125mm cell pitch Color Web panels are a flexible, fully reconfigurable display surface for displaying low-resolution graphics and video content. Made from pliable webbing material, the surface is semi-transparent, compact, lightweight, and therefore a cost-effective LED scenic effects solution for touring, live events, TV productions, corporate presentations, and other industry applications.

The Color Web 125 joins HSL's already substantial stock of over 400 panels of Color Web 250mm. The company first purchased the product when it was launched five years ago and since then it has been in almost constant use on a diverse range of shows and events.

Says Simon Stuart, managing director of HSL, "We've enjoyed such a great success with the Color Web 250 and know from experience that it's a robust, reliable and quality engineered product, so it's been a fantastic investment. With a huge demand for the 125 version as it is increasingly integrated into designs and specs, we also wanted to be able to offer this choice to all our clients."

HSL's Color Web has been in action on the Globe Awards at Grosvenor House with lighting designer Neil Trenell and for a BMW Mini event specified by lighting designer Nick Jevons, of Electric Fly Productions, among the many applications over the past five years. The 125mm version has just been used on the Adecco Conference and Awards 2011 via production company DMW, staged at the London West Novotel in Hammersmith.

Other popular Chroma-Q products in which HSL have invested heavily include Broadway, M5 Plus and M8 color scrollers, and Chroma-Q Color Block 2 modular LED fixtures, of which they have over 350 units.