Claypaky S.p.A. is a developer of professional

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systems for the

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sector (

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and outdoor events ) and for architectural applications. The company is based in

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, near

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, about 40 km from

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. It operates from a modern facility housing its R&D labs, main production plant and quality control,

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and administration departments. At present Clay Paky exports 95% of its production through a global sales and service organization represented by a dealer network active in more than 80 countries around the

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. On December 20, 2022,

Osram Osram Licht AG is a German company that makes electric lights, headquartered in Munich and Premstätten (Austria). Osram positions itself as a high-tech photonics company that is increasingly focusing on sensor technology, visualization and t ...

sold the company to the

Arri The Arri Group () is a German manufacturer of motion picture film equipment. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1917. It produces professional motion picture cameras, lenses, lighting and post-production equipment. Hermann Simon menti ...

group.

Claypaky History

The Claypaky company was founded in August 1976, taking its name from the shortened,

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form of the name of its founder, Pasquale (Paky) Quadri, one of the first entrepreneurs to realize that technological developments in lighting would have an enormous future in the

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and entertainment world. In 1982 Claypaky presented the Astrodisco, which used a single lamp to project multiple

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of colored light across

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and dance floors. Five years later it launched Brilliant, a digitally controlled moving head and forerunner of a new generation of “intelligent”

projectors A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer type ...

. This was followed in 1988 by the programmable Golden Scan, a moving mirror projector and the first

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to implement

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technology instead of

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.Rushton-Read, Sarah
"Alpha Males"
''Lighting and Sound International'', June 2009 Acclaimed by the specialised press as “the world’s most popular and best-selling projector”, the Golden Scan became a commonly used lighting effect at nightclubs and rock concerts during the late 1980s and the 1990s. The London rock band

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claimed the projector was the inspiration behind their light-themed,

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. Since 2000, Claypaky has also been developing its offer for indoor and outdoor architectural applications. In 2002 it moved its headquarters to a new industrial complex in

(Bergamo), achieving

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for

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with the UNI EN

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quality standard that same year. Claypaky has experienced constant growth, reporting

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of more than 50 million

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for 2011, up by over 50% from 2010 (33 million euro). It has a

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of nearly 200 people. After its founder passed away in 2014, the company was sold to Osram. Afterwards, Claypaky was acquired by the Arri Group in December 2022.

Awards

Over the past two decades, Claypaky’s dedication to innovation has been recognized with more than forty international awards.

The MoMS - Museum of Modern Showlighting

A project conceived by Pasquale Quadri (1947-2014) and formally opened in 2015 — the UNESCO International Year of Light — th
Museum of Modern Showlighting (MoMS)
is the first European museum that specifically covers all the sectors where showlighting plays a vital role. The museum investigates the chronology of advances in lighting technology in parallel with the development of the socio-cultural context. After a brief historical excursus on stage lighting beginning in ancient Greece, the exhibition focuses attention on the 1980s and the development of lighting effects that have become part of our collective memory through musicals such as “Saturday Night Fever”. It then comes to the present and the complex motorised projectors available on today’s market. The museum has a library consisting of an historical archive of reviews and a multimedia room.

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Claypaky History

Awards

The MoMS - Museum of Modern Showlighting

See also

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