[SML] Is everyone still ok?

[Ford Sellers]

Things in south Florida are quiet.
Most of Chauvet’s development team is working from home.  We are actually still very busy (finishing the gear we planned on launching at Prolight and InfoCOMM).  We’ll see how this affects our launch cycle, as the majority of our business stopped on a dime…
Once the industry is back up and running, many of us will have burned through whatever capital had pegged for new equipment, so we expect demand to be slow to ramp-up.  This means that we’ve got to be very particular about which new items we move into production, as there is significant cash outlay to setup/re-fit production lines, and we tend to manufacture in quantities of 500 (for very large/expensive moving heads) to 5000 (for small/inexpensive items)…which is a lot of inventory to sit on, if no one’s buying it.

Tough times out there for a lot of our customers.  I hope that they’ll be able to hang-on, and make it through this.  We’ve already seen a few fold.

-Ford

From: Stagecraft <stagecraft-bounces at theatrical.net> On Behalf Of Jonathan Zitelman via Stagecraft
Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:27 PM
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Cc: Jonathan Zitelman <jzstagecraft at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SML] Is everyone still ok?

Pretty quiet here in central Texas (much like I am on this list).  Thankfully I'm not in the main urban area of San Antonio so cases have been light and movement is not totally locked down.  Trying to work from home, but one of my many hats has me on the emergency committee at the university which meets daily.  Spending a lot of my time taking advantage of the multitude of free training (and totally not avoiding using the next month to clean and maintain all the 100+ light fixtures which are 10 years overdue).  Wishing things were a little more free so I could hire my out-of-work IATSE friends to help me do some upkeep.  Thoughts to all those without means right now!

Jonathan Zitelman


On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:56 AM Jeffrey Kanyuck via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net<mailto:stagecraft at theatrical.net>> wrote:
This list has been rather quiet. I thought I would check in and see how folks are doing.
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