Between 1996-1997 the sports facility industry incurred three major scoreboard hoist failures, resulting in both loss of life and monumental liability. Arena owners, managers and architects across the country turned to Daktronics Hoist, Inc. to provide rigging systems incorporating the utmost in safety and performance. Combining a safety-first approach and proven technology, Vortek has designed, engineered, manufactured and installed an entire new line of arena hoists that have set a demanding new standard for the industry.
The time for quality rigging equipment in many arenas is long overdue, as hundreds of moveable scoreboards, speaker clusters, and acoustical systems are suspended by inadequate or out-dated equipment with few or no safety devices. Many systems in use today do not meet any consistent standards towards preventing catastrophic failures. The responsibility of the owners, architects, arena management companies, and insurance companies, must be one of accountability for the safety of the public, employees, and those performers and athletes underneath these extremely heavy suspended systems.
For nearly 90 years, Vortek has safely suspended movable, multi-purpose assemblies, display panels, and acoustic attenuation systems in public facilities around the world — without one failure. The Vortek proprietary technology combined with the principle of single component failure preventive design has revolutionized the industry and greatly reduced the risk of another arena scoreboard disaster.
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