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Massive Robe order for Belgian theatres

Ten high-profile theatrical venues in the French-speaking region of Belgium have received delivery of a massive order of Robe lighting products comprising thirteen different fixture types, totalling 1043 units. This achievement has been co-ordinated by the Belgian office of Robe’s Benelux distributor, Controllux, led by Mattias Ternoot in conjunction with Guillaume Canart of Nivelles-based integration and installation specialist Inytium.

It is the biggest single deal for lighting fixtures delivered by Controllux Belgium, and the project is part of the drive to convert all venues in Belgium from conventional light sources to LED to enhance sustainability and reduce operational overheads and power consumption.

Six of the venues are in Brussels - Les Tanneurs, La Raffinerie, Le Botanique, Le Varia, Theatre National and Les Halles De Schaerbeek; three are in Liège - L’orchestre Philarmonique Royal, Le Manege Fonck and Le Forum; and the tenth one is Le Manege in Mons. The lighting upgrade tender for all venues was handled by public authority La Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FW-B) which owns and operates all these spaces.

Open demonstrations were held at each theatre, with several manufacturers present, allowing lighting heads and technical teams to independently compare the available options, and a seminar was also organised, addressing all aspects of transitioning from tungsten and halogen to LED lighting.

The Robe fixtures delivered are T1 and T2 Profiles, T11 Profiles and PCs, LEDBeam 150 and 350s, ParFect 150 FWQ RGBWs, Tarrantulas, Spiiders, Painte Profiles, Esprites plus Tetra2s and TetraXs. The venues vary from small and intimate with 200-seat studios to the most prestigious stages in the country at the National Theatre in Brussels.

A major reason Robe was selected was for the consistency of the colour mixing between all the different products. This is something that Robe has long worked on and refined for a long time across all its product families which can be seamlessly mixed and matched. Another plus for Robe was that its theatre portfolio is also already very strong in Belgium. The late and much-missed lighting specialist Romain Gueudré was instrumental in choosing Robe for the National Theatre.

Robe made up approximately sixty percent of the total of this order for re-equipping the venues, with the deliveries taking place over a 3-month period at the start of 2025.

Pictured (left to right): Controllux’s Mattias Ternoot and Inityium’s Guillaume Canart. (Photo: Louise Stickland/Paul Clarke)

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