If you’re in the firework trade then you’ll probably already receive our product catalogue, however if you don’t think you’re on our list please contact our office on 01327 876 037 or email tam@mlepyrotechnics.co.uk to request our trade list.

We’ve plenty of new products and refined some old favorites, we’re confident you’ll enjoy the quality and competitiveness of our range.

Aerial shells, Roman Candles, Barrages, Cakes, Single shots, Fountains, Wheels, Gerbs, Mines and Igniters are all in the catalogue.

This week we’re working on the music for our display at the 23rd international firework contest in Macau, China. The event is considered as the main firework competition in Asia and we’re pleased to be involved.

The show will be designed taking all of the factors into account. We’ll be out in China from Sep 8th to the 13th rigging and firing the display.

Special effects are being manufactured for the event and we’ll be drawing on our expertise in designing pyromusical displays to entertain the crowd of 320,000 people and of course the judges!

This summer is extremely busy for the MLE dislay team, which has experienced high demand for 2011, but don’t worry if you’re looking to book us – there is still plenty of availability on writing (just don’t ask for November 5th!).

We recently fired a pyromusical display to Take That, The Greatest Day.

The display consisted of a large range of colourful fireworks lasting 4 minutes and fired from 3 firing locations.  Controlled by a laptop and our FireByWire digital computer system.  This enables us to precisely synchronise the fireworks with the music being used.

We’d like to share some photographs and video of the display we took.  We’ll be sending them to the wedding couple (just ask if you want the same at your display)…

What’s involved in delivering a spectacular firework display for a wedding couple in the middle of their special day?

1 ) Several days ago the show was designed by a member of the MLE display team.  In this case Ben Johnson.

2 ) The fireworks were selected and ready in our storage magazines.

3 ) Earlier in the week the laptop for tonights pyromusical was programmed and loaded with the show design.

4 ) Yesterday hardware and the sound system was loaded in to a van, the fireworks for the display – all that’s required is the fireworks which shall be collected on route to the display.

5 ) Team will arrive on site around 2pm and begin rigging the display at the venue.

6 ) Firstly hardware is laid out and fireworks loaded, waterproofing is done if the weather is not looking too kind.

7 ) Once all the fireworks are out they are wired into the firing system, in this case FireByWire digital control.

8 ) Several hours later the display will be complete, and a special system test is performed using the laptop.  This checks for the presence of each firework in the show plan.  Any missing will be checked and rectified.  We like to think we have a very high standard at MLE and it is often our teams achieve “100%” on initial rigging – something the crews aim for.

9 ) Sound is setup and tested, then all is well for firing.

10 ) Display is fired on or around the time the client asks (we don’t just fire it at the specified time, we’ll wait for a “nods up”)

11 ) Around 9pm the crews will start clearing up

12 ) Around 11pm the crews will leave site

13 ) 12am the team will arrive back at the MLE warehouse and unload

14 ) 1am everyone is at home relaxing after a days work as a pyrotechnician.

Tomorrow we’re firing a pyromusical fireworks display to Take That – The Greatest Day. This is a piece we’ve been asked to fire quite a few times since it first came out. Pyromusical displays are more and more common this year – we enjoy firing them more than fireworks without music so that’ll keep our crews happy.

We’ve taken a few bookings today for July and August this year – both very busy months for us every year (weddings and summer concerts/events).

Our retail fireworks website is getting close to being launched – we’re taking delivery of more stock next week and will start looking at new orders soon.