Florian von Hofen, owner of Smoke Factory, comes from a practical special effects and touring background himself and as a result has always concentrated on developing equipment for live and touring professionals. Many of his innovations have become features of fog machines today: transportability, 0-10V control, radio remote control, DMX interfacing, flow control and "permanent ready" function to name a few.
In its home market Smoke Factory machines are an industry standard to any rental company. Europe's largest rental company, Procon, has recently standardised on 'Captain D' as its fogger of choice. The decision was reinforced by the safety certification achieved by Smoke Factory.
At PLASA 2007 Smoke Factory will be taking advantage of the new hall, Earls Court 2, and will be exhibiting current products as well as "some surprises".
Smoke Factory founder, Florian von Hofen comments, "Lighting Partners are the kind of people we love to work with; competent, professional, experienced, responsive and well connected. They take the job very seriously but always with an element of fun. As a team we all know exactly what we're doing; we are not only moving boxes, we know our product and have experienced almost every possible application ourselves. We believe that this makes the difference, and we will put all our love and passion into the UK market in order to convince every single client."
See Smoke Factory at PLASA 07 - stand H 76
(Jim Evans)
