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When lighting designers, specifiers, architects, and engineers from around the world converge for LightFair 2020 from May 3-7 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, they will experience a reimagined tradeshow layout and streamlined confer- ence, according to organizers. The LightFair tradeshow floor will receive a makeover for the 2020 staging. New pathways will make the more than 500 exhibitors easier to navigate while new lounges will encourage networking. The new floor design is meant to better showcase LightFair’s four product pavilions – The Design Pavilion, The Outdoor Pavilion (formerly Exterior and Roadway), The Smart Pavilion (combination of IoT and Intelligent Lighting), and The New Exhibitor Pavilion – helping attendees to quickly find the products they need. The Loyalty Lounge features seating, charging stations, and refreshments for VIP designers, association partners, and most frequent attendees, while the LightFair Innovations Award Lounge features the Innovations Bar, a high-end bar and meeting place for attendees and exhibitors. Returning in 2020 is the LightFair News Center, which will present live interviews and podcasts with top designers and notable industry leaders. As well, curated tours of the show floor introduce attendees to the right manufacturers for their projects and the new Design Theater, located within the Design Pavilion, presents relevant educational programming directly on the show floor. The LightFair Conference also adopts a new organization in 2020. Conference programming will run for five full days with new industry-specific educational tracks. Planned for 2020 is a custom curriculum developed by lighting, technology, and design experts serving on the select LightFair Conference Advisory Committee. Registration for LightFair 2020 will open early next year. For more information, go to www.lightfair.com. LightFair 2020 Promises an Improved, Streamlined Attendee Experience Music Books Plus Launches Redesigned Website Music Books Plus, a distribution service op- erated by Professional Lighting & Production publisher NWC, has launched its redesigned website at www.musicbooksplus.com. The new site features a fresh, clean design, improved navigation, faster and more rele- vant searches, and a significantly enhanced mobile experience. Music Books Plus carries over 15,000 titles – including hundreds of new addi- tions – on music and the music business, songwriting, arranging, theory, pro audio, video, live sound, recording, lighting, MIDI, synthesizers, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion, violin, brass, woodwinds, har- monica, voice, biographies, songbooks, The Royal Conservatory of Music, and software, accessories, and musical gifts. For more information, contact Maureen Jack at [email protected] or 800-265-8481. Area Four Industries Acquires Prolyte Group Area Four Industries has acquired trussing, staging, and hoist manufacturer Prolyte Group. “The core of the Prolyte brand and its high-quality products will remain, but a major reorganization will take place within its management, production processes, and strategic direction,” Area Four Industries said in a brief statement announcing the acquisition. In its own statement, Prolyte added that it will “keep its DNA intact with a pro- found reorganization from a management, production, and strategic point of view.” Area Four Industries was created in 2012 when Milos Structural Systems, Litec, and TOMCAT were combined and solidi- fied. James Thomas Engineering joined in 2014. For more information, contact Area Four Industries: 800-411-0065, [email protected], www.areafourindustries.com. 12 | Winter 2019