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Chinese fireworks and Digital firing systems

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Well it’s been a long and productive China visit – lots of new effects and ideas worked on and lots to do back in the UK. The flight home is slightly longer than outgoing but it’s nice to see all the snow has gone here now. Not for long I’m led to believe!

Our team in the UK have been busy preparing displays for January and February and working on the international FireByWire orders. We have one going out to China and one to Korea this month.

February see’s a wealth of activity for our Firework Champions outdoor events – if you’re looking for further information on these then we’re aiming to have the new websites up and running very shortly.

So armed with the very best effects we’re looking forward to producing some fantastic displays for our current and future clients.

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Chinese fireworks cakes, candles, shells – demo

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Yesterday started with a visit to our shell factory to check out the production of our products – we also looked at some new production methods and effects being manufactured.

After lunch (the food was great) - we had a demo, looking at some new shells, cakes and candles - the 3 main types of fireworks. Nearly all effects being custom made for MLE from ideas and designs previously sent over to the factory.

The standard was consistantly extremely high which is always nice to see – some of the items seen will be added to our range this year and some will be tweaked – all in all a very sucessful day.

Today we’re off to visit a couple more firework factories and later have 2 more firework demos. We’ll also be meeting our Chinese FireByWire digital firing system agents.

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Liuyang – the firework capital of the world

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Well after the chaos of 600 flights being postponed at Beijing yesterday I finally got to Liuyang in China via another 2 hour flight to Changsha airport.

Liuyang is the firework manufacturing capital of the world. It has literally 1000s of firework factories scattered all around the Hunan countryside.

It is now 945am and we’ve just had a late breakfast before we start a days work looking at the various firework effects and new ideas. We are proud to be associated with the very best factories in China and have great working relationships with our partners here.

Several new ideas are being worked on, some of which are not even of an explosive nature.

Today is much warmer than I have experienced recently. Minus 5 in sunny England to minus 13 in Beijing yesterday. I believe it is around 9 degrees here but I am sure it’s still colder than that.

Update – 1045am and we’re driving to the factory that produce MLEs aerial shells. Later we shall we checking out some new effects and in between grab some lunch. Meals are very important to the Chinese business culture.

More soon…

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Flying to China

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I am Mat, a director of MLE, and currently waiting in Heathrow airport for a flight to Beijing.

My journey to work on the latest firework effects starts with 20 hours of travelling to the largest producer of fireworks in the world – China.

Over the next few days I will be writing about what we get up to in order to ensure our fireworks and displays are at the very cutting edge and of the highest quality.

Once I get to Beijing I shall be meeting up with our Chinese member of the MLE team – Yaqi, who flew out a few days ago in December.

From there we will fly 2 hours to Changsha, take a 1 hour car journey to Liuyang and go straight into our first demo of fireworks.

This time of year is rather cold in China and demo nights basically consist of firing of hundreds of individual effects over the course of several hours.

More soon!

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New Year Firework Displays

Friday, January 1st, 2010

MLE were braving the cold last night with displays around the country. Our largest was in Milton Keynes were we brought in the new year with a very intense display.

Next week sees 2 of the MLE team out in China working on several new concepts and international events.

Mat will be posting updates to this news section.

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Christmas Lights Fireworks

Monday, November 30th, 2009

MLE were firing all around the UK over the weekend, from Evesham to Cumbria. One of the biggest shows was a Christmas lights switch on fireworks display in Rugby.

Photos can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11585577@N04/sets/72157622901042268/

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Belvoir Castle – Wedding Fayre

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Belvoir Castle Wedding Fayre

Today, Sunday October 4th 2009, we were at the Belvoir Castle Wedding Fayre. We met several interested couples and if you’re one them reading this – thanks for taking the time to come and see us.

For further information on our wedding displays please visit www.fireworks4weddings.co.uk and for fire lanterns www.firelantern.co.uk.

The most popular wedding display we perform is our £1000 package, or the £1500 package with music synchronisation. If you’d like to discuss the options further please give us a bell on 01327 876 037, or you can email mail@mlepyrotechnics.co.uk.

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November fireworks

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Preparation for our November displays continues this week – with several shows left to fuse we’ve a busy few weeks coming up. If you’re organising a firework display for bonfire night please get in touch and we’ll see if we can fit you in.

Saturday 3rd October, we’ve a few displays around the country, the furthest being in Scotland – a 7 minute pyromusical display.

We’re also exhibiting at the Belvoir Castle wedding fayre this Sunday (4th October) so if you’re thinking of having fireworks at your wedding why not come and visit us.

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