Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

Scouting For Cases 5 Star Style

Photo shows West Yorkshire Scouts with 5 Star Case

Leading European flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases has donated some of its Arena 600 cases to The Rig Scout Active Support Unit which is based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK, for their day-to-day use. ‘The Rig’ is a charitable organisation currently managed by Jason Robbins. It was originally set up in 2000 by parents of [...]

5 Star Expands Facilities with New Sanding Booth Area

Ingus Lasinskis (seated) with Rokas, Vytas and Valerijs from 5 Star’s woodwork department,

Leading European flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases kicks off 2012 with a new, much larger, custom designed sanding booth area at its Wisbech, UK, headquarters. This is to help increase capacity, turnaround and the service for which 5 Star is renowned, and with a very healthy order book following one of the company’s busiest years [...]

5 Star Cases/CPL Collaboration Hits the Thousand Mark!

CPL's Directors Matthew Boyse and Scott Pearson (left) with technicians

Wisbech, UK based 5 Star Cases is mid-way through the supply of a large amount – currently around the 1000 mark and set to double – of cases to award winning AV rental and staging company, Central Presentations Ltd (CPL), with bases in Birmingham and Bristol. CPL has been using 5 Star for its case [...]

5 Star at Farnborough International Air Show

Farnborough Airshow 2010 logo(a)

5 Star Cases, leading UK manufacturer of specialist cases and associated products will be exhibiting at the Farnborough International Airshow 2010 (FIA). The exhibition runs for 7 days, and attracts trade visitors from around the world plus a huge public interest. The biennial FIA in Hampshire is among the world’s most iconic global aviation events [...]

5 Star Snaps Another DiGiCo Deal

DiGiCo Marketing co-ordinator Maria Fiorellino with 5 Star's Keith Sykes

Continuing its long and successful relationship with cutting edge sound console manufacturer DiGiCo, 5 Star Cases is supplying flight cases for their latest console – the SD9, which was launched last week at the Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt. The partnership started with the case design and build for the SD7 in late 2007, and has [...]

5 Star finds stash

5 Star Pro Audio Stash CPU Holders DSC_0811a

5 Star Cases was recently contacted to design and supply a complete exhibition display system and flight case solution for CPU Holders 4U and Pro Audio Stash. From an initial brief from Pro Audio Stash’s Rob Platt, the design team at 5 Star came up with some ideas and following some minor tweaks, the project [...]

5 Star supplies cool cases for award winning LED uplighter

5 Star GDSa

Wisbech, UK based 5 Star Cases has been chosen to supply flight cases for Global Design Solutions’ (GDS) award winning LiteWare battery powered/Wireless DMX LED uplighters. GDS contacted several case manufacturers to tender for the contract before making their decision. Says GDS’s Matt Lloyd, “We selected 5 Star because of their great attitude, the quality [...]