Messe Frankfurt Middle East, the regional subsidiary of Messe Frankfurt, one of the world’s largest trade fair, congress and event organisers, is to co-locate three of its exhibitions in Dubai to capitalise on visitor and exhibitor synergies.

Light Middle East, the region’s premier exhibition, conference and awards for lighting design and technology; Prolight + Sound Middle East, the dedicated exhibition and conference for Professional Lighting, Audio and AV Technology; and Intersec, the world’s leading trade fair for security, safety and fire protection, will now run side-by-side at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 24-26 January, 2021.

“This is a strategic move to maximise visitor and exhibitor turnout as all three shows share a similar visitor appeal, whether system integrators, installers, specifiers, or consultants,” explained Simon Mellor, CEO of Messe Frankfurt Middle East.

“With all three shows taking place at the same time, exhibitors will meet a more focussed audience and visitors will be able to take in the entire integration range under one roof. We’re creating a powerful event alignment featuring more than 1,700 exhibitors from 60 countries.”

The alignment of Intersec, Light Middle East, and Prolight + Sound Middle East follows a visitor survey of all three events which clearly demonstrated an appetite for the co-location.

More than 1,500 of the Intersec 2019 visitors expressed an interest to visit Light Middle East, while a further 1,125 would also be keen to stop by Prolight + Sound Middle East. Similarly, a large percentage of Prolight and Light Middle East visitors voiced their intent to visit Intersec.

Nour Assafiri, CEO of Venuetech, a Light Middle East Gold Sponsor and exhibitor at Prolight + Sound Middle East, believes the move to co-locate the three events will deepen the product and service offerings for visitors.

“Many of our clients already attend Intersec and our sales teams make the trip down there when the show is on. There’s definitely a cross over for us, especially in the audio/visual space and it will allow us a better platform for us to interact and build relations with existing and prospective customers.

Prama Hikvision, a joint venture between Hikvision and an Indian company, inaugurated India’s largest and first manufacturing facility located at Vasai near Mumbai. В.К. Saraswat (Member, Niti Aayog and former Director-General of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the Indian Minister of Defense) and Dr. Neeraj Sinha (Adviser, Science & Technology) inaugurated the new facility.

With this new facility, which is part of an investment commitment of US$ 70.9 million, Prama Hikvision will not only be able to cater to a fast-expanding domestic market but also the overseas market in a phased manner. Employing over 2000 skilled and semi-skilled employees, the brown-field facility is spread over 12 acres of land comprising end-to-end production capabilities. An ISO 9001:2015 certified facility, the new factory has the capability to manufacture over 850 product models.

Ashish P. Dhakan, MD and CEO, Prama Hikvision India said, “This new integrated state-of-the-art manufacturing facility is an expression of our full commitment to the Government of India’s flagship ‘Make in India’ program. We have so far invested Rs 500 Crore in this new plant with further investment commitments in the pipeline to ramp up productions, local R&D, skilling and giving back to the communities. This new unit has an installed capacity to make 1.5 million cameras per month. It has nine lines that do surface mount technology level manufacturing and enables us to make electronic chips and cameras locally instead of importing them. To upskill a significant part of the workers in this factory, many of them being unemployed before joining us, we have developed in-house training programs comprising world-class modules thus bringing them into the mainstream socio-economic fold”.

The new facility will make Prama Hikvision the only video surveillance products and solutions brand that is truly made in India. Prama Hikvision has been progressively using printed circuit boards (PCBs) at this new facility to ensure full alignment with the Government of India’s Phased Manufacturing Program (PMP) goals.

With an installed capacity of 1.5 million cameras per month, the facility has the potential to grow at 30 percent year-on-year. With this kind of capacity, Prama Hikvision is already enjoying a market penetration above 35 percent in India.

Mobile app developed by Partizan Security won “The Best CCTV Mobile Application in 2019” at Adria Security Summit 2019 Excellence Awards.

Partizan Security is a European hardware manufacturer and software developer for seamless video surveillance and access control systems. Since 2008, when it was started, the brand develops successfully and growing up from year to year. Its main motto is to make security systems easy and friendly for any type of users. Due to that, Partizan products has entered the international security markets quickly.

This year, the app made by Partizan Security team won the Excellence Award for “The Best CCTV Mobile App in 2019” at the international Adria Security Summit exhibition that took place in Skopje (North Macedonia). This is undoubtedly a great success for Partizan, as Adria Security Summit is the main event of the year for all professional distributors, system integrators and consumers of security systems in the Balkan region (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria and North Macedonia).

European quality, high safety standards, extensive functionality and speed, stylish and innovative user-friendly interface helped Partizan to win such big nomination. Moreover, the application can do any task – from viewing a video from a home camera to monitoring a professional video surveillance system.

The key advantages of the app are: viewing live video and working with the archive on one screen, one endless timeline, unique “Wireless Connect” technology for configuring and connecting wireless devices, low energy consumption of mobile devices.

Talking about additional functionality, there is the most diverse set of tools – one-click snapshots or video clips saving, gesture PTZ control, quick device adding wizard, in-app business card for installers and many more.

At the same time, Partizan application is suitable for all devices on iOS and Android platforms.

Partizan on the Play Market
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.partizan.pro

Partizan on the App Store
https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/partizan/id1473001227

A significant partnership agreement has recently been entered into between the Italian Comelit Group – which operates worldwide in the design and manufacture of video door entry, home automation, video surveillance and access control systems – and the Bulgarian Teletek Electronics company specialising in the development and manufacture of fire detection and anti-intrusion systems.

This agreement comes after a long and fruitful period of collaboration that saw Teletek Electronics develop a complete range of fire detection products and equipment for Comelit. Reciprocal satisfaction and trust from the bases for entering into a new partnership that will see the two companies grow synergistically whilst maintaining their individuality at a strategic, organisational, productive and sales level.

Comelit Group’s CEO, Edward Barzasi, explained in detail the decision to gain a strategic capital shareholding in Teletek Electronics, aimed at maximising the synergies between the two companies, resulting in tangible advantages also in favour of their clientèle.

“This shareholding in the Comelit Group sees us enter the ranks amongst the top technological players in the international market for professional fire alarm and anti-intrusion systems. In fact, in addition to our own know-how, we can now count on Teletek Electronics’ skills, having worked in this specific market for almost 30 years,” says Barzasi. “One benefit of this operation will be Comelit’s quality, with the introduction of innovative solutions that will complement the broad and structured range of anti-intrusion, access control and video surveillance systems already offered. The package of over 2,500 products is flanked by excellent after-sale support services, being the hallmark of our company. For our customers, there is then the certainty of interfacing with a single partner throughout all phases of the purchasing process.”

There is also great satisfaction for Teletek Electronics which—through its founder Valentin Stoitzev, as Chairman of the Board—has announced that the new partnership is perfectly in line with the corporate mission of brand development and market expansion. “This agreement enables Teletek Electronics to increase its investments on several fronts: the internal organisation and strengthening of the sales network in terms of R&D, accelerating the development of new products that will be offered to the market under the Teletek brand.”

Precisely as a function of the significant growth plan for Teletek, also supported by the Comelit Group’s resources, a huge investment has already been planned for the construction of new premises, with an increase in the spaces and doubling of the production capacity in respect of the current situation, to better serve the 75 markets worldwide.

In addition to the synergistic growth, Barzasi and Stoitzev reaffirm the shared intention not to alter the individuality of the two companies, which will maintain their respective brands and commercial structures.

This September marks Hikvision Europe’s 10th year since the establishment of the European head office in the Netherlands. The company is proud to look back on its impressive past development and thanks its partners and customers for their loyal support. It is also taking the opportunity to look to the future with plans for expanding its head office and strengthening opportunities for supporting partners.

10 years is a significant milestone for Hikvision Europe. The company achieved dramatic development, both regarding business operations as well as with its employees. From just a few people, the company’s workforce has grown to over 300 dedicated employees serving customers all over Europe. In addition to the establishment of the European head office in the Netherlands, Hikvision Europe opened 8 branch offices in Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and in Romania over the past 10 years. Besides the branch offices, the company established sales offices in Finland, Sweden, Portugal and Belgium. Yet, the existing head office with its 2000m2 of office space and 4500m2 of warehouse space has proven to be at capacity. Plans for an additional building that will double the space available and consultations with the employees are finished and construction will commence by the end of this year. In the words of Hikvision Europe’s General Manager Derek Yang: “The company has grown from tiny nut to big oak.”

Hikvision places great emphasis on its partners and customers. “Our greatest strength is our smooth running ecosystem that connects our customers with our innovative technical knowhow, technical support team, product and solution design capability, strong manufacturing power and our passionate sales network,” says Yang. To date, the company counts more than 600 distributor partners and more than 30,000 installer partners all over Europe. This reflects Hikvision Europe’s longstanding focus on always putting their customers at the center of their activities. “We also want to take this opportunity to thank all our partners for supporting Hikvision in the past 10 years,” Yang continues. “To win the respect from the market and our customers and to bring our business close to our customers is an accomplishment that we have worked long and hard to achieve and it would not have been possible without our valued partners.”

Looking to the future, Yang’s vision for the next 10 years is becoming clear: “My predecessor Jiangfeng Zhi founded Hikvision Europe and lay a solid foundation. When I took over as General Manager of Hikvision Europe, I aimed to restructure the organization into a ‘country-oriented’ system. For the future, I want to expand our business – for example by establishing a local Research and Development division; by setting up a multi-field partner ecosystem; by making our business range more flexible and wider; and by creating more opportunities for our employees, our partners and our customers. But first, let’s start by expanding our Hikvision Europe office buildings to make room for our coming growth.”

Assa Abloy has signed an agreement to acquire Lux-Ident, a leading provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) components based in the Czech Republic.

“Lux-Ident is a strategic technological addition to the Assa Abloy Group. The company reinforces our current offering within RFID components. The acquisition of Lux-Ident considerably enhances the Group´s position within smart components and will provide complementary growth opportunities,” says Nico Delvaux, President and CEO of Assa Abloy.

“Our proven leadership in RFID technology positions HID as a premier source of components for a wide variety of RFID use cases and IoT applications. The acquisition of Lux-Ident further optimises our portfolio with more ways to offer customisation in both large and small volume projects,” says Stefan Widing, Executive Vice President and Head of HID Global. “Expanding our presence in Central and Eastern Europe with Lux-Ident will further enhance HID’s ability to serve customers locally while extending our RFID technology into emerging markets.”

Lux-Ident was founded in 2002 and has some 145 employees. The main office is located in Lanškroun, Czech Republic. Sales for 2019 are expected to reach about EUR 17 million and the acquisition will be neutral to EPS from start.

The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions and is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2019.