[STAGING SPOTLIGHT] Commencement Staging – Creating a Memorable Event for an Important Milestone

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Over the years, we have worked with universities all over the country designing and building commencement stages that are unforgettable. Graduation season is right around the corner, and every college is gearing up for this year’s ceremony. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) projects that 1,855,000 students will graduate in 2015*. Students deserve a graduation ceremony that they will remember for years to come; after all, it is one of the most important milestones of their lives. We’re in the business of creating memorable experiences, and Mountain Productions is no stranger to staging graduations and commencements.

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[EVENT RECAP] Ultra Music Festival 2015

One of the kickoff events of our season takes place in March and brings hundreds of thousands of people to Bayfront Park in Miami. We’re talking about Ultra Music Festival, one of the premier EDM festivals in the country. Mountain Productions is proud to stage the 2015 Ultra Music Festival for another year.

Mountain Truss Main Stage at UMF15

Our largest system, the Mountain Truss, was built as the main stage alongside a variety of structures including entranceways, side stages, mix positions and more. Here’s a highlight of the structures that we engineered and built for the 2015 festival:

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[STAGING SPOTLIGHT] Enhance Your Mobile Stage with Additional Scaffold Wings

The popularity of mobile stages has been growing over the past few years. These stages revolutionized the industry, and provided more affordable, portable and efficient alternatives to traditional staging. While a tower system, scaffold staging or our Mountain Truss can offer more features (greater flexibility, custom designed, greater load bearing capacity, etc.), mobile stages deliver a dependable system that you may be surprised are not just “one-size-fits-all” units.

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Efficiency—it’s one of the most beneficial aspects of mobile stages that is a huge factor to production companies. But just because they are easily set up doesn’t mean that you can’t maximize your event’s design.

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5 Practical Packs in the MTN BOX

Along with being extremely durable and protective, the MTN BOX excels at adapting to our users’ needs. With hundreds of different combinations of inserts, you can find a configuration that is exactly what you need, for each one of your cases. We’ve put together a few helpful packs that hold common equipment that is prevalent at most jobs in our industry. Take a look…

3 Large Frame Classic Lodestar Pack

3 Large Frame Classic Lodestars

This pack features (2) 3 Large Frame Classic Lodestar cradles (LD16-V2) with additional small dividers (SD1H and SD2H). Each Lodestar fits comfortably in precise water-jet cut cradles with chain lying below each hoist. Each hoist “compartment” can hold up to 180′ of chain per hoist.

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Mountain Productions’ 2015 Annual Safety School

One of the most important weeks of our year is not necessarily one of the hectic, fast-paced weeks in the midst of the summer season, but rather our annual safety training week at the beginning of the year. This is a mandatory week dedicated to educate and refresh our employees on safe work practices. This year, the training consisted of various safety speakers representing many familiar brands including 3M, Milwaukee, CRC, Brady and more. The first three days of Mountain’s safety school welcomed Jeff Burd of the PA Department of Labor who certified all Mountain employees in CPR and AED.

All Mountain employees were certified in CPR & AED

All Mountain employees were certified in CPR & AED

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Exploring Mountain Productions’ Fleet

Mountain Productions’ fleet is comprised of flatbed, drop deck and box trailers. Having such diverse and extensive trailer capabilities allows us to load our equipment before trucks and drivers are present, giving us an advantage and keeping our fleet moving with as little interruption as possible. Our vehicles are made up of Tractors, Class B and C trucks along with many passenger vehicles, all used for transporting our fleet of trailers and mobile stages, not to mention our supervisors to and from sites across North America.

A few vehicles from Mountain Productions' Fleet

We are constantly growing our business, resulting in the need for a larger fleet. Recently, we added additional covered wagon style trailers which follow our Mountain Truss systems.

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[EVENT RECAP] Mountain Productions Stages the 47th Pennsylvania Inauguration

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This past Tuesday, January 20th, Tom Wolf was sworn into office as the 47th governor of Pennsylvania. Mountain Productions, founded and based in northeastern PA, is proud to have been a part of the event, providing and building the staging for the ceremony.  This is the 4th inauguration Mountain has staged in Harrisburg.

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The Capitol main stage consisted of a 70’ x 35’ deck area with stair access and seating behind the main podium area.

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[EVENT RECAP] Mountain Productions’ Stages the 2014 National Christmas Tree Lighting

For the 3rd consecutive year, Mountain Productions proudly provided the staging for the 92nd Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting in Washington, DC. The ceremony welcomed Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson as the hosts of the 2014 event with musical performances by Fifth Harmony, Patti LaBelle, Ne-Yo and more. For this year’s tree lighting, Mountain Productions provided the main stage, an SL-320 mobile stage along with additional support structures.

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[EVENT RECAP] Custom Tower Structure for CVS at Bryant Park, NYC

This past week, Mountain Productions built a unique structure that pulled together a striking visual campaign for CVS. To announce that CVS/pharmacy® stores will no longer be selling tobacco products, a 50’ tall “cigarette” was literally put out in a giant ashtray over the course of the day. Taking place at Bryant Park in New York City, the event was an intriguing and attention-grabbing way to spread the word about their latest news.

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[EVENT RECAP] Nike Court – Temporary Tennis Court in NYC

Mountain Productions recently completed a unique project for Nike in New York City. As a promotion for their new Nike Court clothing line, Mountain built a temporary tennis court that spanned a 127’ x 73’ area with an 84’ x 24’ bleacher system. Utilizing 15” JTE Tower Truss, a 13 tower system held up a truss roof at a trim height of 30’ with netting hanging down to ground level.

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