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Koltech invests in Robe - again

Koltech is a lighting and audio rental company based in Beersheva, Israel’s seventh largest city and the biggest in the arid Negev desert region to the south of the country. The company is owned by Yossi Bendavid - popularly known as Zak Zak which means talkative and he certainly is a lively and accomplished communicator - and Shlomi Auitani. The pair worked together at a previous company for several years and then set up Koltech seven years ago, both bringing experience, ambition and complimentary skills to the equation.

Koltech is specialised in supplying technical solutions to theatre and opera productions. Their reputation spread along with their operational scope, and so they quickly found themselves also supplying concerts, outdoor festivals and a whole range of corporate and business events as well as arts projects. They decided to invest in Robe for the first time in 2011, purchasing MMX Spots. They already knew of the brand and its reputation from a couple of sources including Robe’s distributor Danor Theatre and Studio Systems and also Argaman Systems, one of Israel’s largest rental companies.

At that point, they were actually on the brink of choosing a competitor product then Robe came up with the MMX Spot. The next purchase was of eight Pointes, and they were in fact the first company in Israel to take delivery of Pointes. The Pointes are proving the “Perfect” compliment to the MMX spots according to Zak Zak who notes that their small size and huge versatility is a great advantage in so many venues.

In 2014 the commitment to Robe continued with LED Wash 800s and also LED Beam 100s. Koltech currently has 13 full time staff and will usually service around 15 - 20 events a month of varying sizes and complexities which will be all over Israel, but primarily in the south. Zak Zak is also the company’s main LD, so he designs and programmes many of their projects as well as working internationally for some clients. Recently this work took him to London lighting a dance troupe from Ben Gurion University whose show “Karina” played at the British Library and the London Artsdepot. He’s been in the industry since he was 15 and it’s his lifeblood. He originally started as a sound engineer and then moved on to video, lighting and visuals and this is where he has found his real career passion and focus.

The photo shows (right to left - Hebrew style): Shlomi Avitan, Osher Peretz and Yossi ZakZak Bendavid of Koltech, Erez Hadar of Danor Theatre and Studio Systems - Robe’s Israeli Distributor and Koltech’s Mathias Danielle

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