Eclipse places largest single order with Christie in the Middle East
Published: MEA
UAE: Eclipse Staging Services LLC has ordered 40 Christie Roadster HD20K-J three-chip DLP 16:9 projectors and ILS lenses to service its Dubai operation and future expansion into Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Simon Smith, senior sales director Christie EMEA confirmed it was the largest single order received from a GCC-based rental house.
The overall package – worth US$4 million ¬– was announced by Eclipse chairman, Mark Brown and Mr Smith at this month’s Gitex 2012 exhibition in Dubai.
‘We have been a trade supplier to most of our A/V colleagues in the GCC region and having assisted an international projection company by providing 24 Christie projectors for the Abu Dhabi Grand Mosque to celebrate the UAE 40th anniversary last year, we recognised the need for large quantities of high quality projectors in the region,’ said Mr Brown.
‘With this major investment in Christie technology we are hoping to become a regional hub to other technical suppliers within the rental staging industry, and improve the supply-chain economics between the Middle East, Europe and the US.’
Mr Brown commented that the J Series purchase was ‘an obvious one’ and that its additional features and functionality ‘ticked all the boxes for us’.
Eclipse also announced that it will embark on another sizable investment by opening technical facilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar with a full service stock from 2013. ‘It is exciting times for Eclipse and we need to rely on our relationships with internationally-recognised brands in the region, such as Christie, who are a long-standing partner and the market leader for professional audio visual users throughout the world,’ said Mr Brown.
‘This marks the next chapter in Christie’s successful partnership with Eclipse and justifies the considerable investment we have made in local services over a long period,’ added Mr Smith. ‘Eclipse has been involved in some highly complex landmark projects and events across the region and we are delighted to continue supporting them.’