To start of the New Year, I thought you might be interested in knowing a bit on how we manufacture our products. We use what is called « injection molding ».

Injection molding is a manufacturing process for producing parts from plastic materials. Material is fed into a heated barrel, mixed, and forced into a mold cavity where it cools and hardens to the configuration of the mold cavity.

The first man-made plastic was invented in Britain in 1851 by Alexander Parkes, calling the material he produced « Parkesine » Derived from cellulose, Parkesine could be heated, molded, and retain its shape when cooled. It was, however, expensive to produce, prone to cracking, and highly flammable. In 1868, American inventor John Wesley Hyatt developed a plastic material he named Celluloid, improving on Parkes’ invention so that it could be processed into finished form. Together with his brother Isaiah, Hyatt patented the first injection molding machine, this machine was relatively simple compared to machines in use today.  The industry expanded rapidly in the 1940s because World War II created a huge demand for inexpensive, mass-produced products. In 1946, American inventor James Watson Hendry built the first screw injection machine, which allowed much more precise control over the speed of injection and the quality of articles produced.  In the 1970s, Hendry went on to develop the first gas-assisted injection molding process, which permitted the production of complex, hollow articles that cooled quickly.

Today in 2011, the possibilites are unlimited! We only use inert polypropylene for all our products.

Our multidisciplinary team in development of product and in marketing is strong of more than ten years of experience in the conception of products intended for the industries of film and audio. It will assure the realization of your project, whether it is the modification of one of our products or the creation and the development of a new one. Our integrated solutions allow the manufacturing, the deployment, the delivery and the strategy of supply of your product thanks to an established distribution network worldwide.

À la fin de chaque année, je pense à tous les gens merveilleux qui ont rendu possible une autre année de succès.

Chers Clients, fournisseurs et partenaires en cette période des fêtes, nous aimerions vous adresser nos remerciements pour votre confiance et votre amitié.

De notre coin de pays tellement choyé par l’hiver, nous vous souhaitons de vivre un Noël rempli de mille bonheurs, ainsi qu’une prochaine année à l’enseigne du succès.

Joyeuses Fêtes  

Toute l’équipe de STiL Solution Boîtier vous souhaite une année 2011 active et heureuse, riche en réalisations.

 At the end of every year we think about all the wonderful people who have made another great year of success.

During this holiday season we would like to extend our thanks to you for your business. We have enjoyed our friendship with you.

Happy Holidays, and a prosperous new year!

We look forward to speaking with you soon and everyone at STiL wishes you a peaceful holiday season.

Merry Christmas to all !

Frédéric, Melanie and our staff at…

We are happy to welcome a new customer at STiL Casing Solution!

HBO, a standard abbreviation for its full legal name Home Box Office is owned by Time Warner. In addition to its U.S. subscriber base, HBO also broadcasts in over 150 countries worldwide.

A bit of history about the company: In 1965 Charles Dolan, who had already done pioneering work in the commercial use of cables, won a franchise to build a cable system in Lower Manhattan, New York. The new system, which Dolan called « Sterling Manhattan Cable », became the first urban underground cable system in the United States of America. Rather than stringing cable on telephone poles or using microwave antennas to receive the signals, Sterling laid underground cable beneath the streets of Manhattan because the multitude of tall buildings blocked television signals. In the same year Time Life, Inc. purchased 20 percent of Dolan’s company.

In 1973 Time Inc. bought out HBO. When Time merged with Warner Communications in 1989, HBO became part of Time Warner, which as of 2009 continues as its parent company.

On September 30, 1975, HBO became the first TV network to continuously deliver signals via satellite. The network broadcast only nine hours a day for its first nine years on air, from 3PM to midnight ET. In September 1981, HBO began broadcasting a 24-hour schedule on weekends, until midnight ET on Sunday nights. On December 28, 1981, HBO expanded its programming schedule to 24 hours a day, seven days per week.

In 1991, HBO became one of the first premium services to offer multiplexing to cable customers.  In 1993 HBO became the world’s first digitally transmitted television service. HBO.com, subsequently well-known for its online web shows, launched in 1995. In 1999, HBO became the first national cable-TV network to broadcast a high-definition version of its channel. In July 2001, HBO launched the first premium subscription video-on-demand enhancement in the United States of America, called HBO on Demand, to Time Warner Cable subscribers in Columbia, South Carolina.

Thank you HBO for the confidence you have placed  in our products!

I’m a winner, I’m a sinner, do you want my autograph? I’m a loser, what a joker, I’m playing jokes upon you while there’s nothing better to do!

Does this ring a bell?

Breakfast in America (Original recording remastered)

Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe two CD edition including a bonus CD containing 12 unreleased live tracks. Their sixth album, Supertramp’s most popular and successful work, Breakfast in America was released in March 1979, and reached #3 in the UK and #1 in the United States where it stayed on top for six weeks. It yielded the hit singles ‘The Logical Song’, ‘Take The Long Way Home’, ‘Breakfast In America’ and ‘Goodbye Stranger’. The second disc, Breakfast Around The World, contains 12 previously unreleased live recordings from Miami, London and Paris between October and December 1979. Mostly drawn from Breakfast In America, it also includes earlier stage favorites ‘Rudy’, ‘Give A Little Bit’ and ‘Even In The Quietest Moments’.

Do you know?  

Cups ‘n Strings are the experts in digitizing,

restoration and preservation of audio recordings in many different and varying formats. We boast an extensive range of equipment with the capacity to transfer just about every tape recorded, even those recorded in the most obscure formats. With our vintage playback equipment paired to state-of-the-art digital gear, you can be assured of professional quality standards. Be it a single master tape or a whole catalog

http://www.cupsnstrings.com/

Know where I’m getting at? Yes? We have the honor that one of our clients « Cups ‘n Strings » has digitally remastered Breakfast in America. Congratulations to Bruce Maddocks and all his team!

We also have the privilege of knowing that the original was put into Supertramp’s hands in on of our STiL CD/DVD Case! 

 Thanks for making us part of this.

Le CNA (centre national de l’audiovisuel) est une plateforme ouverte au grand public et institution professionnelle aux pointes de la technologie moderne à la fois, le centre a pour vocation de rendre accessible à tous la culture du son et de l’image. Chez STiL Solution Boitier nous avons l’honneur et le privilège de compter le CNA parmi nos clients, nous avons conçu pour leur besoins le boîtier pour bande magnétique 12″. Voici un bel exemple du travail fini: archives_son (cliquez sur ce lien)

Un peu d’histoire sur le CNA:
Les nouveaux locaux terminés fin 2007 répondent à l’ensemble de ces besoins : dans le complexe culturel « op der Schmelz », le CNA est devenu un espace d’exposition et de découverte, un lieu de projections cinématographiques, de consultations de documents, mais aussi un centre spécialisé regroupant archives, studios (son et prise de vue et laboratoires.

Le CNA a été créé en 1989 avec les missions de sauvegarde, de mise en valeur et de promotion du patrimoine audiovisuel luxembourgeois. De nombreuses productions propres y ont été initiées et réalisées, tels que les films et documentaires « made in Luxembourg » pour le domaine du cinéma, ou des expositions photographiques comme, « De l’Europe » ou encore « Images Cachées » puisée dans le vaste réservoir de films d’amateurs gérés par le CNA.

Production, distribution, conservation, restauration ou éducation, les tâches du CNA sont multiples et variées et sollicitent le concours de nombreux spécialistes et créateurs luxembourgeois et étrangers. La structure complexe et les activités ambitieuses ont fini par déborder le cadre du site initial attribué à l’institut à sa création. De l’ancien Pensionnat de la Doctrine Chrétienne à Dudelange, le CNA a donc déménagé en décembre 2007 dans son nouveau bâtiment « op der Schmelz » construit par le bureau d’architecture Paul Bretz.

Doté d’une bibliothèque bien fournie, d’une médiathèque, d’une galerie et de salles de cinéma, l’institut accueille le grand public dans des locaux modernes et confortables. Le centre s’ouvre également à l’exploration par la collectivité au sein de son Espace Découverte Display 02. Ce lieu de navigation virtuelle permet d’accéder à travers une sélection du fonds d’archives aux collections de photographies, de films et de documents sonores. Aménagé dans un cadre feutré et ludique et équipé de bornes multimédia performantes, l’Espace découverte offre au public l’occasion de pénétrer dans l’univers riche et fascinant du patrimoine audiovisuel luxembourgeois.

Je vous invite à visiter leur site Internet: http://www.cna.public.lu/index.html

 Merci à Monsieur Philippe Mergen, Chef de Service dans le Département de l’Audio pour ces magnifiques images!

I hope you enjoyed the AMIA / IASA Conference  as much as I did! I find that Philadelphia is such a beautiful city!

I would like to thank you for stopping by our booth during the conference, it’s always a pleasure for me to chat one on one, see familiar faces and meet new people.

I invited you to drop your business card in a box for a chance to win the New Apple TV! I made the draw under the supervision of my assistant, Ms. Melanie Simard and I am glad to announce that the lucky winner is:

Mrs. Christiane Taddeo, Manager at the Media Libraries and Archives at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Congratulations Mrs. Taddeo!

If you have any questions we are always happy to discuss of your needs! If you would like to receive a sample of one of our various products please don’t hesitate to contact myself or Melanie at melanie.simard@stilcasing.com. We would be delighted to help; we are just a phone call away!

See you next year!

Frédéric Lapointe
President

En 2010, l’Association of Moving Image Archivists et l’ International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives vont se réunir pour la première fois lors d’une conférence conjointe. L’IASA / AMIA conférence sera un forum de discussion où la convergence est possible, communiquer des normes et partager des solutions et des opportunités mutuelles.

Visitez notre kiosque #17 et venez voir notre nouveau boîtier: http://www.stilcasingsolutions.com/preservation_analogique_boite_media.html

Pour plus d’informations sur la conférence: http://www.amiaconference.com/

Frédéric fera un plaisir de vous serrer la main à Philadelphie, le 2 au 6 Novembre 2010.

In 2010, the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives will come together for the first time in a joint conference. The IASA/AMIA Conference will be a forum to discuss where convergence is possible, to communicate standards and to share mutual solutions and opportunities. The conference will offer four parallel session tracks, two on typically AMIA-issues, one on typically IASA-issues, and one with subjects of common interest.

Stop by our booth #17 and come see our new box: http://www.stilcasingsolutions.com/analog_preservation_media_box.html

For more information on the conference: http://www.amiaconference.com/

Frederic will be pleased to shake your hands in Philadelphia, November 2nd to 6th, 2010.

STiL Solution Boitier sera là!

FIAT / IFTA Conférence Mondiale 2010

La couleur de la Conférence 2010 et l’Assemblée générale sera verte!

FIAT / IFTA a choisi  « À la réalité – Retour aux sources » (Making it Real – Keeping it Real) comme thème de la Conférence mondiale de 2010. Gardez le contact avec le rythme rapide des changements que les médias audiovisuels ont crées et la diffusion qui a fait que les archives audiovisuelles ont dû réinventer la roue à plusieurs reprises. Cependant, les principes fondamentaux qui ont souligné l’archivage audiovisuel dans le monde analogique sont toujours valables – mais il ya de nouveaux moyens, de nouvelles possibilités et de nouvelles pistes à poursuivre dans l’ère numérique et internet et les nouveaux défis économiques pour garder les roues en mouvement.

Pour plus d’informations sur la conférence: http://www.conferencepartners.ie/fiat_ifta/

Frédéric fera un plaisir de vous serrer la main à Dublin, de 15 au 18 Octobre, 2010.