Rope Assemblies Launch a New Concept in Lighting Ladder at PLASA Focus: Leeds

PLASA focus Leeds will see rigging designers Rope Assemblies launch a new super lightweight Lighting Ladder aimed at riggers and lighting teams working in venues and on tour.

PLASA Focus, to be held April 17-18 at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, is the leading event for audio, video, lighting, and staging technology in the north of England and an ideal show to launch this new product.

Distributed by White Light in London and Black Light in Edinburgh, the Lighting Ladder is unparalleled in the marketplace, the company says. Patent protected, it provides a much-needed flexible, space-saving and rugged rigging solution for lighting. Lightweight and strong, the Lighting Ladder comprises black, galvanised rope wire and 50mm aluminium rungs, which can be fixed into place at evenly spaced end stops. In addition the Lighting Ladder has been independently tested for weight loading.

"The success of the Lighting Ladder design is in its simplicity," says Siobhan Hitchen of Rope Assemblies. "It's quick to unpack and assemble. In addition the Lighting Ladder's robust versatility ensures it can be used time and time again and in a variety of configurations. It can be ordered in lengths to suit the customer requirements and rung widths can be specified from 500mm to 1m making it an incredibly versatile product."

Keith Benson, head of lighting at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, agrees, "I love the flexibility of the Lighting Ladder -- you can choose how you space the rungs to accommodate bigger or smaller luminaires, you can also choose different rung widths, allowing you to choose to rig two lamps next to each other, or one above another. When you de-rig the lamps you simply roll the ladder up and put it in the rigging box -- it's fantastic for touring. I see it as a great solution to a number of common problems and space issues."

To mark the Lighting Ladder's launch, Rope Assemblies will be giving away one Five Star designed and manufactured flight case to the first ten companies to order the product.

"We're thrilled to be able to offer a product that we believe will provides an ideal solution for hanging lighting in tight or difficult to access places," says Hitchen. "It's incredibly exciting to be delivering the Lighting Ladder -- a new concept in hanging lights -- to market, and seeing the overwhelmingly positive reactions from all our distributors and end-users."