Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Vulcan's Display at the Pyroworld in Berlin - November 2011

Vulcan in conjunction with Galaxis Showtechnik put on a short opening display for the Pyroworld last week in Berlin! You can read all about the "reality" of Pyroworld here.

The show was choreographed by Cindy Cheung and John Werner. The show used ALL Vulcan display fireworks and Galaxis wireless firing system. Thank you to Steffen Braunlich of The Art of Fire for helping prepare and set up the show and a special thank you to Beko Vuurwerk! You can buy all these fireworks from Beko Vuurwerk - please contact info@bekobv.nl or visit their website!

The display can be seen below:



Prior to our show, Finale Fireworks ran our Galaxis script through their simulation software and this was how it looked!



Look out for the side by side comparison videos at www.finalefireworks.com soon!

Thursday, November 3, 2011

1st Pyro World, Berlin Templehof Airport, Germany



We will be at the 1st Pyro World in Berlin between 10th - 12th November, 2011 in Berlin Flughafen Templehof. Aside from having a booth at the Trade Show, we will be doing an opening fireworks show using all Vulcan products on 11th November Friday in conjunction with Galaxis Showtechnik.

Pyro World will not only be about fireworks but on Friday and Saturday nights there will be live entertainment and music!

More details at http://www.pyro-world.de or Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pyro-World/186582771374991

Monday, October 3, 2011

October 1st 2011 - Hong Kong Harbour

Some photos of the National Day display on Hong Kong Harbour on a clear night! Luckily the Typhoon did not disrupt the display





Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Yuan hits record high as dollar slides

Yuan hits record high as dollar slides
Reuters in Shanghai
4:49pm, Aug 08, 2011

The yuan hit a record high versus the dollar on Monday after the People's Bank of China set a historical high mid-point following a drop in the dollar index after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the US credit rating.

The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s on Friday in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world’s largest economy.

Dealers expected the yuan still had potential to hit new highs in the near term as the European Central Bank announced steps to ease tensions in the euro zone debt market, which could support the euro and yuan.

“Now the global market will lead the yuan’s trade,” said a dealer at a Chinese commercial bank in Shanghai. “It’s clear that today’s jump in the yuan is in line with the downgrade of the US”

Spot yuan hit a record high of 6.4268 on Monday, stronger than Friday’s close of 6.4404. It has now appreciated 6.21 per cent since it was depegged from the dollar in June last year and 2.53 per cent so far this year.

Before trade began the PBOC fixed the yuan’s mid-point

at an all-time high of 6.4305 against the dollar, stronger than Friday’s 6.4451.

China’s central bank raised its mid-point fixing for the yuan by 0.2 per cent per dollar, the biggest rise since mid-November. The dollar/yuan exchange rate may rise or fall 0.5 per cent from the mid-point each day.

But traders also said the pace of yuan gains was likely to slow as global commodity prices, the benchmark Reuters Jefferies CRB index , slumped more than 11 per cent since early May, raising fewer worries over imported inflation. The authorities used the yuan’s exchange rate to help fight inflation.

The yuan has risen 0.59 per cent since the start of July, but its gains in the third quarter are likely to remain confined to around 1 per cent, analysts said.

Offshore, benchmark one-year dollar/yuan non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) were bid at 6.3730 at midday, weaker than 6.3830 at the previous day’s close.

Their implied yuan appreciation in a year’s time fell to 0.90 per cent from 0.74 per cent.