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Leading the Charge for TAF in Germany

As Managing Director of BTinnotec, TAF distributor for Germany, Michael Timmer is responsible for providing his customers with high-quality TAF truss and related support structure services. We were successful in stealing some of Michael’s time last week to learn more about him and BTinnotec.

 

  1. Can you tell us about yourself and your experience in the entertainment business?

 

I started in this industry as a temporary helper, when I assisted the company Musik Produktiv to move into their new premises during Easter in 1995. At that time, they still had a lot of work to finish up in their new building, so they asked if I could provide further help in this area. During the summer that followed the move, Musik Produktiv decided to establish a Lighting department and asked me if I could help build it up. That was my start in the lighting business.

 

  1. What led to the relationship between BTinnotec and TAF? How long has BTinnotec been a distributor of TAF products?

 

I met TAF owner Jaroslav Rozboril nearly 20 years ago at the Plasa exhibition. Over the years, we stayed in contact and did business together. When our industry was rocked during the pandemic, I had to decide what to do. It was then that my partner and I decided to start our own distribution company for entertainment lighting. One of our first companies we spoke to was TAF, seeking an opportunity to take them and their truss on board.

 

We have been the official distributor for TAF in Germany since February 2022.

 

  1. BTinnotec is a unique name for your company. Can you explain how this name came about?

 

It is quite simple. “B” is the first letter of the last name of my Partner and “T” is the first letter of my last name. To make it clear that we are an innovative company in a technically driven industry, we added “innotec”.

 

 

  1. What services does BTinnotec provide for its customers and what other brands does it distribute?

 

In the wide world of trussing, we work together with TAF to provide our customers with unique, custom support structures and help bring their ideas to life. Furthermore, we work with external partners to provide static calculations that fulfill safety standards for the German market.

 

In addition to TAF products, we are the exclusive distributor in Germany for the lighting brands Ayrton, LCPro and Lucenti lighting products, and are a sales partner of Chamsys. We expanded our sales team over the past 12 months and now have professional salespeople that cover all regions of Germany.

 

  1. Is there a standout project that you can speak about that utilized TAF truss and how it satisfied the needs of your customer?

 

We’ve completed many successful projects with TAF truss. One that stands out is when we supplied FT34 truss to our customer for building a range of modular cocktail bars for festivals, which consisted of different dimensions according to specifications given by each of their end users.

 

  1. Can you highlight custom solutions that TAF provided in the past for your customers’ projects?

 

For one customer, we provided a unique rail that went all around their square roof terrace. The rail was made from TAF’s FT34 truss and was painted black (RAL 7016).

 

  1. What are your hobbies or other interests?

 

Besides spending time with my lovely family, I enjoy going to football matches of my favorite club Borussia Moenchengladbach (which is hard to pronounce for non-native German speakers) at the Borussia Park stadium.


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