Harkness 是Harkness Screen International Ltd CO.公司品牌英文缩写，中文翻译为哈克尼斯。
哈克尼斯银幕国际有限公司（Harkness Screens International Ltd）是一家英国的银幕生产厂商。哈克尼斯银幕公司成立于1929年，进行银幕制造已有八十余年的历史，是全世界最大的银幕生产商，每年为全世界2500多家影院和超大银幕场所提供银幕，产品被广泛使用去全世界各种不同应用场合，公司主要生产银幕，框架和银幕的遮幅系统；还生产用于室内和露天用途的折叠和充气银幕，广泛应用于电影，电视，剧院和家庭影院等休闲娱乐场所。
1929年，Andrew Harkness和他18岁的儿子汤姆率先进入了屏幕制造业。
20世纪40年代初，汤姆?哈克尼斯前往美国时，他“发现”了“塑料”。使用加入塑料的新材料满足了制造完美屏幕的所有需求。哈克尼斯用一种称为Tearseal的革命性方法融合塑料，使得其他屏幕厂商无法实现的无缝焊接变成了现实。这是哈克尼斯屏幕第一个巨大的成功。
20世纪50年代初，哈克尼斯屏幕开始了屏幕穿孔技术，使扬声器可以放置在屏幕背后，创造了一个全新的影院体验。
Harkness的最大成就是开发的Perlux?涂层的屏幕，提供更明亮，更生动的画面。这项技术奠定了哈克尼斯作为世界领先的屏幕制造商的地位。
安德鲁?罗宾逊是目前的常务董事/首席执行官。罗宾逊在1999年加入哈克尼斯，并一直在专注于大屏幕娱乐设施及相关应用的制造。此外，罗宾逊扩大该公司的美国业务，开办欧洲分部（总部设在法国），发展越来越多的亚洲经销商网络，并在中国开设工厂，专注于国际增长。
“为我们的客户提供高性能，高质量和高性价比的屏幕和框架是我们一直的追求，”罗宾逊说。“我们一直通过顺应客户的需求来发展我们的业务。随着日益加速的技术发展要求，我们将致力于开发新产品，并以此继续领先与全球同行业。“[2]
除了设立在英国的总部，哈克尼斯还在美国，法国，中国设立了工厂，并且在全世界60多个国家开展了业务。公司主要生产的银幕材料系列有以下几种：
1）Perlux 珍珠幕布系列。
2）Matt Plus 白塑幕布系列。
3）Spectral 金属银幕系列。
随着中国经济的蓬勃发展和文化产业的兴起，哈克尼斯于2007年开始在北京销售其屏幕，目前已经在中国内地一线城市的众多五星级影院和IMAX影院得到广泛应用，例如万达、中影国际、橙天嘉禾、金逸、星美国际等。在中高端院线市场上占据着70%左右的市场份额。
2012年哈克尼斯与深圳鸿利公司签约家庭影院代理，开始进军国内家庭影院领域。
下面是哈克尼斯Harkness官方网站的品牌介绍：
Harkness Screens? is the world's leading screen technology company, specialising in the design and manufacture of projection screens and supporting technologies. With manufacturing facilities throughout the world, Harkness is regarded as the world leader in cinema and today has screens in more cinemas worldwide than any other manufacturer. With its industry leading 2D and 3D screen technology brands (Perlux, Clarus XC and Spectral), Harkness continues to lead the way in screen technology for cinema and live events.
Manufacturing cinema screens and custom screens of virtually any shape and size. Harkness Screens clients range from single-screen independent theatres through to large multiplexes, immersive theatre experiences, theatres, theme parks, exhibition venues, TV studios or live events.
Founded in 1929, Harkness has manufacturing facilities in the USA, UK, France, India and China. Harkness Screens combines unrivalled experience with the latest technology and production methods to provide innovative solutions to the company’s key markets worldwide.
公司历史：
Harkness Screens? is the world’s screen technology company.
From its humble beginnings in 1929, Harkness Screens has grown to employ over 100 people across five countries. Harkness Screens has thousands of large screens installed in more than 130 countries throughout the world. Harkness serves the cinema, film production, special effects and live events markets. Harkness makes screens for 2D and 3D digital projection and for 35mm film projection, as well as screens for rear-projection.
In 1929, founder Andrew Harkness first entered into the screen-manufacturing business with his 18-year-old son Tom. The business operating out of the then bustling UK film studio lots of Borehamwood in the UK rapidly grew and became hugely successful manufacturing woven screens and then washable woven screens.
During the early 1940s, Tom Harkness discovered plastic (PVC). A new material which seemed to possess all the properties required in an ideal screen, however this new material still needed to be joined. Harkness spent significant time developing a revolutionary method of welding the plastic together called the Tearseal method which was later patented. Where other manufacturers had failed to produce invisible seams, the Harkness Tearseal method produced a flat seam, and this made all the difference ensuring that Harkness’ new screens were a huge success.
Much improvement was made to this new material and by the mid 1950’s as cinema continued to evolve, small perforations were incorporated into Harkness screens enabling behind-screen speaker placement, creating a whole new cinema experience.
With larger screens desired by cinema exhibitors and limited technology available for putting sufficient light on screen, Harkness developed its first coated gain screen in Perlux? a screen capable of providing a brighter and more vivid presentation. This technology helped transform Harkness into the world’s leading screen maker.
In the mid-1990s with the multiplex boom accelerating globally, Harkness had already identified that there would in the future be a demand for 3D projection in cinema. Harkness invested heavily in research and development utilising its knowledge of coating screens to produce what by the end of the first 3D boom (in 2011) would become the world’s leading polarised silver screen brand in Spectral?.
Recognising the global leadership status the business had acquired, Harkness quickly expanded its overseas operations purchasing a European competitor based in France and creating new manufacturing facilities in the USA, China and India.
Since 1929, innovation has been at the heart of Harkness and this remains important and visible today be it through the development of Harkness’ latest screen technology in Clarus XC or the development of Harkness’ tools and apps for digital cinema. As well as innovation, continuous improvement is also key to Harkness’ success and whilst constantly looking for methods to improve products, Harkness is already undertaking significant research and development into the future of projection using laser technology.
It is this innovation, foresight and creativity along with the enthusiasm and dynamism of its staff that makes Harkness the global leader in projection screen manufacture and thought-leader in screen technology.
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