CinTech services, a Texas company that’s installed digital projection systems for 8,000 movie theater screens across the country, has opened an operations center at Union Station. The new network operations center was launched Wednesday with an initial staff of three employees, and CEO Stan Hays said he expected 20 people to be working there within the next year. CinTech was founded 10 years ago to replace conventional film projectors with digital systems, and Hays said it has converted about one-quarter of the screens across the U.S., including many for Kansas City-based AMC Entertainment.
The decision to put its network operations center in Kansas City was due to the opening of another firm earlier this year, SightDeckKC. SightDeck uses Google Fiber to provide state-of-the-art video-conferencing services. Hays said his firm has occupied space near SightDeck and is using its services to give its customers quick updates on progress for its service and installation work. “They were our main interest in coming here,” he said.
The arrivals of CinTech and SightDeckKC are both associated with Launch KC, an initiative started by civic leaders and city officials last September to encourage entrepreneurs and other tech firms to take advantage of the ultra-fast Internet service Google’s installing.
Source: Kansas City Star Business