Clay Paky

Clay Paky
Joint-stock company
Industry Stage lighting, Architectural lighting
Founded 28 August 1976, Bergamo, Italy
Founder Pasquale Quadri
Headquarters Bergamo, Italy
Key people
Pio Nahum (CEO)
Products Professional lighting systems
Website http://www.claypaky.it

Clay Paky S.p.A. is one of the world’s leading developers of professional lighting systems for the entertainment sector (theatre, television,[1] concerts,[2] nightclubs and outdoor events [3]) and for architectural applications. The company is based near Bergamo, about 40 km from Milan, Italy. It operates from a modern facility housing its R&D labs, main production plant and quality control, sales 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 world.

Clay Paky History

The Astrodisco by Clay Paky, a widely used disco light of the 1980s.

The Clay Paky company was founded in August 1976, taking its name from the shortened, anglicized 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 show business and entertainment world.

In 1982 Clay Paky presented the Astrodisco, which used a single lamp to project multiple rays of colored light across ceilings and dance floors. Five years later it launched Brilliant, a digitally controlled moving head and forerunner of a new generation of “intelligent” projectors. This was followed in 1988 by the programmable Golden Scan, a moving mirror projector and the first luminaire to implement stepper motor technology instead of servo motors.[4] 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.[4] The London rock band Klaxons claimed the projector was the inspiration behind their light-themed, hit single Golden Skans.

Since 2000, Clay Paky has also been developing its offer for indoor and outdoor architectural applications. In 2002 it moved its headquarters to a new industrial complex in Seriate (Bergamo), achieving certification for compliance with the UNI EN ISO 9001 quality standard that same year.

Clay Paky has experienced constant growth, reporting revenues of more than 50 million euro for 2011, up by over 50% from 2010 (33 million euro). It has a workforce of nearly 200 people.

In 2014 the Clay Paky founder Pasquale Quadri passed away and the company has been acquired by Osram.

Awards

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

Year Award Award name Nominated product
2015 "Indispensable Technology" Parnelli Awards Product: Mythos
2015 "Best Debuting Lighting Product" LDI Awards Product: Spheriscan
2015 "Lighting Product of the Year" Live Design Awards Product: Mythos
2014 "Indispensable Technology" Parnelli Awards Product: A.leda B-EYE
2014 "Best Debuting Lighting Product - Honourable Mention" LDI Awards Product: Mythos
2014 "Award for Innovation" Plasa Awards Product: Mythos
2014 "Best Lighting Product" PIPA Awards Product: A.leda B-EYE
2013 "Best Debuting Lighting Product" LDI Awards Product: A.leda B-EYE
2013 "Award for Innovation" Plasa Awards Product: A.leda B-EYE
2012 "Best Debuting Lighting Product" LDI Awards Product: Sharpy Wash
2012 "Lighting Product of the Year" Live Design Awards Product: Shotlight Wash
2011 "Empresa de iluminación del año" Premios Producciόn Audio Clay Paky
2011 "Most Creative Use of Lighting" LDI Awards Clay Paky stand at LDI 2011
2011 "Best Debuting Lighting Product" LDI Awards Product: Alpha Spot 800 QWO
2011 "Indispensable Technology" Parnelli Awards Product: Sharpy
2011 Plasa "Rock Our World Awards" Product: Sharpy
2011 "Lighting Product of the Year" Live Design Broadway Master Classes Product: Sharpy
2010 "Best Debuting Lighting Product" - Honourable Mention LDI Awards Product: Sharpy
2010 "Award for Innovation" Plasa Awards Product: Sharpy
2010 "Award for Innovation" - Special Commendation Plasa Awards Product: ALPHA PROFILE 700
2010 "Important contribution to the development of the club industry" Ciribelli Awards Clay Paky
2008 “Award for Innovation” PLASA Product: ALPHA BEAM 300
2002 “New Lighting Product” LIVE AWARDS Product: Stage Profile Plus SV
2001 “Design Excellence” PLASA Product: CP Color
1999 “New Product of the Year” BEDA Product: Stage Line
1999 “New Lighting Fixture of the Year” LIVE AWARDS Product: Stage Line
1999 “Club Lighting Effects of the Year” ETA Product: Stage Line
1999 “Budget Lighting Effect of the Year” ETA Product: Stage Color 300
1998 “Al Miglior Concerto” TELEGATTO TV Sorrisi & Canzoni Company: Clay Paky & Pooh
1998 “The Art and Technology of Show Business” EDDY AWARD Product: Stage Line
1998 “Luminaire of the Year” EN TECH Product: Mini Scan HPE
1998 “Innovative Lighting Product of the Year” ETA Product: Stage Line
1997 “Club Lighting Effect of the Year” ETA Disco International Product: Golden Scan HPE
1997 “Lighting Product of the Year Entertainment: Most Promising Prototype” LDI. Product: Stage Line
1997 Honourable Mention : “Best Big Booth” LDI Company: Clay Paky
1997 “Light Product of the Year” TCI Product: VIP 300
1997 ”Award for Product Excellence” PLASA Product: Stage Scan
1996 “Best Light Show of the Year” LIGHTING DIMENSION Product: CP SHOW
1996 “New Lighting Product of the Year” LIVE AWARDS Product: Golden Scan HPE
1994, 1996 “Full Sized Moving Light” EN TECH Product:Golden Scan 3
1993, 1995, 1996 “Light Product of the Year” BEDA Product: Golden Scan 3
1995 “Innovative Light Effect” DISCO INTERNATIONAL Product: Golden Scan HPE
1995 “Lighting Effect” DISCO INTERNATIONAL Product: Golden Scan 3
1995 “European Company” LIVE AWARDS Company: Clay Paky
1994 “Club Lighting Effect” DISCO & CLUB Product: Golden Scan 3
1994 “Automated Luminaire” LIVE AWARDS Product: Golden Scan 3
1993 “Club Lighting Product” DISCO & CLUB Product: Golden Scan 3
1992 “Manufacturer of the Year” DISCO & CLUB Company: CLAY PAKY
1992 “Lighting Award” BEDA Product: Golden Scan 2
1990, 1991 “Lighting Effect” DISCO & CLUB Product: Golden Scan 2

See also

References

  1. "Clay Paky At Dancing On Ice", Live Design, June 2008
  2. "Clay Paky lights the AC/DC tour", Total Production International, February 2009
  3. "Clay Paky at the XIX Commonwealth Games", mondo*dr, November 2010
  4. 1 2 Rushton-Read, Sarah. "Alpha Males", Lighting and Sound International, June 2009

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