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Protec’s celebrations
By Admin in Live Events & Production, News September 27, 2017 0
Dubai headquartered company Protec is celebrating its 18th year in business and continues to grow.
The company, which already owns one of the world’s largest event rental stocks, has once more invested heavily in new technology and equipment over a busy season in 2017.
The season has seen Protec at the core of some exceptional events that has taken them all across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The year was kicked off by the multiple award-winning IDEX opening ceremony in Abu Dhabi, one of the season’s highlights.
The next few months saw the company’s involvement in events of every kind – from conferences through to concerts. The end of season’s highlight was another spectacular and enormous success in the form of the Dubai edition of Unite with Tomorrowland for which the company delivered the entire scenic and staging, lighting, audio, video, rigging and backline.
Peter Jones – Protec’s Special Projects HOD said, “We’ve recently invested in Notch – another exciting video graphics tool that has been designed to ease the process for interactive content and live visual effects. It’s a great visual effects engine for live events and what I also like about it is the fact that it integrates into all our existing systems like BlackTrax and our d3 servers for instance. From the way the events are being designed these days in the Middle East, I’m fairly sure we are going to be using this system a lot.”
Another interesting system that’s been added to Jones’s department is Bottoms Up.
He explains: “The popularity of our robots has shot through the roof over the last year and having anticipated this trend we increased our stock which was a good move as we found out. While our robots have been used in many ways, I’ve found that the most popular is the bar service. So we have invested in a clever system called Bottom’s Up which measures drinks portions with superb accuracy. What also helps is that it is very