Electronic Theater Controls

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Electronic Theater Controls ( ETC ) is a US manufacturer of theater, entertainment and architectural lighting. The company was founded in 1975 by the brothers Fred and Bill Foster. The company is based in Middleton , Wisconsin, USA .

Acquisitions

ETC showed a clear expansion policy through takeovers early on:

  • 1990: Lighting Methods Inc.
  • 1995: ARRI GB, lighting control department
  • 1998: Irideon Inc.
  • 2002: transtechnik lighting systems
  • 2002: avab
  • 2003: AVAB France
  • 2004: IES
  • 2004: Penko Engineering BV
  • 2009: Selador
  • 2016: High End Systems

Products (selection)

ETC manufactures a whole range of products and partly continues to sell products from companies it has taken over (partly in a different design and with a different label). So z. B. lighting consoles of transtechnik new with the label transtechnik by ETC delivered.

  • Source Four headlights
  • Eos , Ion, Element, Gio lighting consoles
  • Cobalt, Congo, Congo jr (formerly avab)
  • Prisma NTX, Focus NTX, Iris NTX (formerly transtechnik )
  • Sensor dimmer
  • Unison architectural lighting control system
  • Net3 network components
  • Selador LED headlights

Web links

Commons : Electronic Theater Controls  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files