Kinoton
GmbH was a German manufacturer of
digital projection equipment, conventional
film equipment, studio systems, and 360°
LED display systems. It was based in
Germering
Germering (Central Bavarian: ''Geamaring'') is a town of approximately 40,500 within the district of Fürstenfeldbruck, in Bavaria, Germany. It is directly adjacent to the city of Munich and borders it to the west.
History
The area of
Germering ...
near
Munich
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, with branches in Berlin, Hamburg and Neuss, and service centers throughout Germany and Austria. Via an international distribution and service network, the company served customers worldwide. In 2010, Kinoton was picked by the German business periodical ''
Manager Magazin'' to join the list of "Germany’s 1,000 World Market Leaders".
Kinoton GmbH is in
liquidation
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since April 1, 2014. The Kinoton brand will live on as a new company,
Kinoton Digital Solutions, which will focus on digital solutions.{{solution-inline, date=August 2019
''Press release''
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History
Kinoton was founded in Munich in 1948 to provide services to local movie theaters
A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall ( Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, the big screen, or simply theater is a ...
. The following year, the company obtained the rights to distribute film projectors made by the Dutch Philips company. In 1963, Kinoton launched the first projector that it had developed in-house. It was followed in 1968 by the ''ST 200'', the world’s first non-rewind film platter system. The subsequent decades were marked by rapid growth. In the 1980s, Kinoton expanded its portfolio by starting to develop, manufacture, and sell projectors and other equipment for film and post-production studios. In 2000, it also began developing and producing D-Cinema solutions.
In 1988 and 2004, Kinoton received the Scientific and Engineering Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motio ...
: in 1988 for developing the first film platter system, and in 2004 for developing the high-speed ''FP 30 EC II'' und ''FP 38 EC II'' projectors.
References
Manufacturing companies of Germany