This hugely flexible luminaire is a truly multi-functional light source with the power and finesse of Astera’s famous Titan LED engine coupled with the practicality of its popular AX3 LightDrop product, all in a completely new and fully adaptable housing.

Astera LED Technology, a German company was present at the Plasa for the second year in a row. Astera is specialized in building multifunctional event lights with built in battery and wireless receiver which offer a fast and flexible setup.

UK-based lighting designer Phil Supple utilised 56 x Astera Tubes – 40 x Titan and eight each Hyperion and Helios – to illuminate 137 windows across 57 rooms at the George Heriot School in Edinburgh, Scotland, for Where to Begin, the opening event of the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival (EIF).

Light artist Eloi Maduell from Playmodes Studio used 288 x Astera Titan Tubes to realise his spectacular immersive lighting installation BEYOND at the 2023 LUMA Projection Arts Festival staged in Binghamton, New York.

The creative geniuses in Astera’s R&D department have been busy again … This time developing another completely cool and unique product – SolaBulb – the only bulb on the market with an inbuilt 15º - 50º zoom range that is optimized for maximum lux output.

Peter Lambert owns and runs a busy independent medium-sized camera and lighting system rental company based in Cape Town, South Africa whose clients work across a broad spectrum of broadcast and film/recording sectors including music videos, commercials, and streaming events. They also have a healthy cross rental business.

Astera’s new LunaBulb product – launched in May – has won a coveted PLASA Award for Innovation, which was received during the association’s annual expo at Olympia in London, UK in early September.

Astera took part in ISE 2026 to offer a preview of its upcoming launch, which was unveiled during the show at its booth. In addition, the company showcased other standout products, such as the recently launched Quik family, consisting of the QuikSpot and QuikPunch luminaires.

Sean Shay, creative director at Sound Image, a Clair Global Brand, reached for Astera Hyperion and Titan Tubes to help imagine a spectacular and dramatic piece of light art highlighting a ‘hero car’ for the launch of the Porsche Macan Electric car presented by Porsche San Francisco at their showroom in the city’s downtown Design District.

Lighting designer Christina Thanasoula of Athens, Greece-based creative design studio, Creative Lighting, has a penchant for invention and thinking out-of-the-box while crafting her art, and was recently a keynote speaker at the 2025 Showlight symposium in Dijon, France.

ATG Audiovisueel is a busy event technical services and rental company based in Vuren, near Gorinchem (the Netherlands). It supplies full production packages to a wide range of professional performing arts and corporate/business projects across the Netherlands and throughout Europe.

Ryan Schaminee is a Netherlands-based freelance gaffer and lighting board operator who also works internationally on a wide variety of commercial, television and some film projects utilising various Astera products almost every day.

Avolites Ltd – A Robe business – recently announced the launch of its new Academy ‘Online Learning Platform,’ adopting a ‘bite-sized’ approach to learning and replacing the previous version.

Avolites - A Robe Business - announces three new distributors in key European countries – Austria and Norway, plus Serbia and the other Balkan countries of Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Albania.

Lighting designer Daniel Saveski — currently Head of Lighting for Australia’s Channel 9 (GTV9) — used an Avolites D9 console (with a D7 as backup) to light the broadcaster’s famous Christmas special, Carols by Candlelight.

The first Avolites D7-330 and D7-215 consoles have arrived in the Balkans region – received by Belgrade, Serbia-based Avolites distributor, Light & Sound Design D.O.O. (LSD) – where they will be in action with the team led by Milan Scepanovic, demonstrating their massive power and great portability to customers and industry professionals alike.

Lighting designer Benjamin Moffitt has been working for legendary US rock band Foreigner for the last 2 years and has been a lighting professional for 40 years, and for around 20 years of that period, he has been using Avolites for his lighting control.

Avolites announced the release of Prism ‘Early Access’, the latest edition of its popular media software.  Prism ‘Early Access’ (E.A.) edition can be downloaded for free via the Avolites website and becomes operational when used in conjunction with an AVOKey (Avolites licence key). 

Avolites was at LDI 2025, where the North American team highlighted the newly launched D3 series of powerful and portable lighting control consoles, together with its advanced D9 and D7 lighting consoles and the versatile Q-Series media servers, delivering ultimate visual control at users’ fingertips.

Avolites announces the eagerly awaited update to its Titan Remote App, seriously boosting performance and functionality. It is a significant upgrade to the last Titan remote app (released several years ago) and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.