UK - Star Events Group has announced a 50% increase to the rigging capacity of its 20m and 25m span VerTech roofs, used at many major UK festivals. New high tensile steel trusses enable this increase within the existing roof architecture.

Each load bearing span across the stage can now carry up to 7.5 tons UDL at 25m span. Additional spans can be located in the 20m and 25m systems at 0.62m centres. Roof capacities of over 100 tons are now easily achievable.

Pete Holdich, director of stages for the company comments: "We trialled a few sections of this new truss at several festivals in 2010 and have now made a big investment to enable us to allocate several uprated spans to each roof in 2011. This puts our VerTech system in the upper echelon of world class heavy duty roofs for tour and festival use."

(Jim Evans)


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