100 Verlinde Stagemaker Motors
Operated By AED Studios Lint,
Belgium
or their ceiling grid
equipment, AED’s
audiovisual studios were
recently equipped with 100
VERLINDE STAGEMAKER
SR10 motors to simplify assembly and
disassembly operations for shows.
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AED group caters for the needs
of international players in the
audiovisual sector and the realm
of live performances both by
renting out and selling
standardized products embracing
the techniques of sound, lighting,
image projection and the lifting of
stage equipment and by the letting
of a complex of fully operational
studios for cinema, television and
event productions.
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A studio complex in the heart of Belgium
AED at Lint, near Antwerp, runs one of
Europe’s largest audiovisual production
complexes. Covering a surface area
of 25,000 m2, the company rents out
16,000m2 of studios, 4,000m2 of offices
and can supply any postproduction
equipment or facilities required by cinema
or TV teams.
The company is very attached to its
industrial heritage. In the entrance
hall, for the benefit of customers and
visitors, are exhibited audiovisual and
stage equipment tracing the history of
techniques in the industry. Using state-ofthe-art museography, it displays lamps,
cameras, microphones, mixing desks,
image projectors and for the lifting section,
the display of Verlinde motors used by AED
over many decades, like the first manual
screw hoist (1858), the first L104 motor,
the LITACHAIN LI5, the STAGEMAKER SM10
range and finally the latest generation of
the STAGEMAKER SR line with the SR10.
100 STAGEMAKER SR10 motors at the
service of audiovisual productions.
Filip Van Vlem, AED Communication
Director, declares: “Energy economy is a
major concern for us and the integration
of photovoltaic panels in our studios’
roof structures goes hand in hand with
the use of STAGEMAKER hoist motors
for ceiling grids. They replace energy
consuming lifting trucks while providing
flexibility, eff