Atlanta · For international exhibitors

Exhibition Stand Builder in Atlanta

Where the world’s food chain does business.

Custom exhibition stands for IPPE, IWF and every Georgia World Congress Center show — fabricated in the US and delivered on one fixed USD price signed before work starts. No ocean freight, no carnets, no US entity required. Your delegation lands at the world’s busiest airport; your stand never has to land at all.

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Filters the stands below — each shows its Atlanta price.

0Customs forms, carnets or ocean freight
500+Projects delivered nationwide
24 hrQuote turnaround, any time zone
1Project manager, brief to dismantle
Our work

Stands built for buyers who think in supply chains

Atlanta’s marquee floors — food processing, woodworking machinery, industrial equipment — draw technical buyers from every producing region on earth, and they evaluate a stand the way they evaluate a plant. Everything below came out of our own shop: designed, fabricated, printed and wired by one team, then stood up complete and photographed before shipping. What you approve from abroad is what lands on the floor.

Also built for Genea, Dunnhumby, Chili Piper, LHH, Calm and Spekit.

The international decision

The equipment argument, settled before it starts

Atlanta’s international exhibitors often face freight decisions in two layers: machinery or samples that genuinely must cross, and a stand that never needed to. Merging them into one shipment doubles the carnet schedule, the crate count and the weight the material handlers bill on — for walls and counters that could be built at the destination.

Split the decision. Whatever must cross travels on its own paperwork; the environment gets built on this side — to your existing design language if you send photos or CAD, in US materials and US electrical code, on one fixed USD number.

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Nothing crosses a border

No carnets, no brokerage, no duty questions, no crate in clearance while your show opens. Fabricated, trucked and installed inside one country, on one fixed number.

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US electrical from the start

Overseas components routinely fail US floor inspection — voltage, plugs, certification marks. Everything we wire is US code from the first cable.

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Your design, translated

Existing stand drawings become a Atlanta build: imperial dimensions, your show’s height and rigging rules, forced changes flagged at render stage.

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Lighter freight, smaller bills

Material handling bills by weight, and a locally built rental reaches the dock at a fraction of an imported stand’s crated mass — a line we forecast before you sign.

The US show floor, translated

Three terms that decide an Atlanta budget

Exhibitors arriving from Europe, Asia or Latin America meet a show-floor system here that has no equivalent at home. The full six-term glossary lives on our Las Vegas exhibition stand page; these are the three that bite hardest here.

Drayage

No equivalent outside North America

The venue’s fee for moving freight from dock to stand space, billed by weight. Unavoidable for everyone, forecastable for anyone honest — we price the line against your actual stand before you commit and file at advance rates.

Show labour

≈ Appointed contractors, per show rules

What exhibitors may build themselves on a Georgia floor is set by each show’s regulations, and a custom island is crew-built work under any of them. Our fixed price carries the crews and supervision, so there’s nothing for you to source.

Feet, not metres

Your 6×9 m is their 20×30

US floor plans sell in feet, and space contracts follow. The pricing table below carries both units — quote your space in whichever your contract uses.

Atlanta pricing

The numbers, in USD, in the open

Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibition stands in Atlanta, invoiced in USD to your home-country entity — international wire or card, no US bank account or address required. Print these, convert them at today’s rate, and take them into your budget meeting.

Fixed pricing · Atlanta · all-inclusive
FootprintMetricFixed price (USD)Typical use
10×10≈ 3×3 m · 9 m²$13,000 – $15,500Inline. First US market entry, lead capture.
10×20≈ 3×6 m · 18 m²$20,000 – $24,000Inline. Demo plus seated conversation.
20×20≈ 6×6 m · 37 m²$31,000 – $35,000Island. Two or three zones, four-sided.
20×30≈ 6×9 m · 56 m²$33,000 – $38,500Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space.
20×40≈ 6×12 m · 74 m²$38,500 – $49,500Island. Multiple engagement zones.
20×50≈ 6×15 m · 93 m²$44,000 – $55,000Island. Long-run product wall.
30×30≈ 9×9 m · 84 m²$44,000 – $55,000Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating.
30×40≈ 9×12 m · 111 m²$60,500 – $71,500Island. Flagship, double-deck capable.
In the fixed price Design & build
  • Stand design in 3D, revised until approved — free of charge
  • Fabrication in our own shop, to US electrical code
  • Graphics production, mounting and QC
  • Flooring, furniture, lighting
  • Screens, mounts and AV hardware
Logistics & service
  • Complete pre-assembly with photo approval before shipping
  • Round-trip freight to your Atlanta venue
  • Supervised install and dismantle crews
  • COI, EAC and show-services paperwork
  • A single project manager, reachable in your working hours
Billed by the show, not by us

The venue invoices these directly to every exhibitor, whichever exhibit company builds the stand — no vendor anywhere can legitimately “include” them. We estimate each line against your actual stand before you commit, then file the orders inside the advance-rate window.

  • Stand space itself
  • Electrical drops and floor distribution
  • Material handling (drayage)
  • Rigging, if you’re hanging a sign
  • Daily stand cleaning
  • Internet
The ocean invoice

The crossing buys crates. The same money buys a stand.

Shipping an owned stand looks free because the stand is paid for. Then the crossing gets priced: crating, two ocean legs, customs, drayage on the loaded weight, and US crews decoding a metric kit against a deadline. A 6×9 m island, both ways:

Flying your stand to Atlanta
Refurbishment & export crating$4,300
Ocean freight, both directions, insured+ $8,700
Customs brokerage / ATA carnet+ $2,400
Drayage on the full crated weight+ $5,600
US crews assembling an unfamiliar metric kit+ $7,300
Electrical rework to pass US inspection+ $2,600
Spent on logistics, not the stand$30,900
Plus transit damage risk you still own
Pure Exhibits, built in the US
6×9 m (20×30) custom stand, fixed$33,000
Ocean freight & customsNone exist
Domestic round-trip freightIncluded
Install & dismantle crewsIncluded
US-code electricalBuilt in
Spent on the stand itself$33,000
Photo-verified before it ships

On the venue’s invoice in both scenarios: space, electrical service, drayage, rigging, cleaning, internet — the show’s own tariffed charges, billed to every exhibitor whoever builds. The difference is the weight the drayage gets billed on, and which side of the comparison forecast those lines before you signed.

Spend the budget on the market, not the water. One number buys crates on a ship; the other buys a finished stand you approved in photographs before it ever left our shop.

Georgia World Congress Center · Downtown

Three buildings, one campus — your letter sets the plan

The Georgia World Congress Center spreads across Buildings A, B and C in downtown Atlanta, each with its own halls and dock service, and its biggest shows span more than one. The building letter on your space contract sets the freight route, the rigging plan and your team’s daily walk — so it’s the first thing we read.

Buildings A, B & C

IPPE · IWF · major trade shows

The main campus, where the marquee industrial weeks fill multiple buildings at once. Cross-building shows make dock assignment and freight routing the difference between a smooth install and a lost day.

AmericasMart

Market weeks · gift & home wholesale

A downtown wholesale campus with showroom-dense buildings, compressed market weeks and temporary-exhibit rules quite unlike a convention hall — a rhythm our crews already work.

Hotel & corporate venues

Association meetings · summits

Atlanta’s convention hotels carry a heavy association calendar. Ballroom logistics — freight lifts, padded corridors, overnight installs — are their own discipline, covered by the same fixed price.

What we run for you here
  • Venue and hall confirmation from your contract before anything books
  • Floor plan filings and venue approvals
  • Dock target times scheduled to the right building
  • Electrical, rigging and drayage ordered at advance rates
  • COI and contractor paperwork per venue
  • Supervised install, show-day support, dismantle
Worth knowing before you plan

For international teams, Atlanta’s practical advantage is arrival itself: nonstop routes from most exporting regions land your delegation direct. The stand needs no such route — it’s built here, and the only long haul in the project is yours.

The IPPE brief

A show with “International” in its name

IPPE — the International Production & Processing Expo — is Atlanta’s defining week: the global poultry, meat and feed industry, from genetics to processing lines, with international pavilions and delegations threaded through every hall. Exhibitors here sell capital equipment and multi-year supply relationships to buyers who flew in specifically to compare them.

The stand brief that follows: engineering-grade display for machinery and process lines, sight lines that let a buyer read the equipment from the aisle, and the meeting layer where the real conversations happen — because processing-line deals aren’t closed standing up.

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Equipment-first engineering

Floor loading, service access and power draw resolved at render stage and filed with the floor plan — the machine runs all day instead of fighting its enclosure.

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Technical audience finish

Clean lines, disciplined cabling, honest materials — build quality that makes an implicit claim about your engineering, to the audience that reads it that way.

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The supply-chain meeting layer

Semi-private rooms with real acoustics for the conversations these floors run on — specifications, qualification timelines, multi-year terms.

Your US calendar runs past Atlanta? Chicago, Orlando, Houston, Las Vegas and fifty more cities run on the same published fixed model — one stand design, one project manager, every city’s price known before your show year starts.

In their words

What event managers say after the show

★★★★★
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call and ready to jump in when the unexpected inevitably happens. That level of responsiveness makes a huge difference in high-pressure event environments.”
Amanda Horner · Three years of Adobe Summit booths · Google Review
★★★★★
“I’ve worked with Pure Exhibits for almost a year now, and have had such a great experience! They are our go-to for trade shows, and create memorable booths that represent our brand well. The team is incredibly responsive and reliable.”
Lexi von Schottenstein · Google Review
★★★★★
“It’s always a pleasure to work with Utsav. The process is simple, straightforward, and high quality. I have worked with them for 3 years now and will continue!”
Carlos Bautista · Three-year client · Google Review
★★★★★
“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
Amanda Horner · Google Review
Atlanta show calendar

When to start, by show

Atlanta’s fixed points, with the planning runway each realistically needs from your first email. Name your show and we’ll confirm its Atlanta dates and pull the manual before we quote.

Verify months annually · rotating meetings not listed
ShowTypical monthVenueStart planning
IPPE — International Production & Processing ExpoJanuaryGeorgia World Congress Center6 months
IWF — International Woodworking FairAugust · even yearsGeorgia World Congress Center5 months
AmericasMart market weeksJanuary & JulyAmericasMart Atlanta4 months

January IPPE means a December build — holiday schedules sit inside the runway. And IWF runs even years only; confirming your show’s Atlanta year costs nothing and prevents the expensive version of the surprise.

Working backwards

The calendar that matters runs in reverse

Show dates don’t create cost pressure — order deadlines do, and the decisive one closes roughly eight weeks out, when advance rates on electrical, rigging and drayage expire. For a team planning across an ocean, the whole project exists to arrive at that gate comfortably, with your only travel being the flight to the show itself.

−6 MONTHSScope agreed in one call in your morning; fixed USD figure signed.
−4 MONTHSBuilding and hall confirmed from your contract; layout and floor loading submitted for approval.
−10 WEEKSArtwork frozen — your files, converted to imperial print specs by us.
−8 WEEKSAdvance rates on show services expire. The gate everything aims at.
−4 WEEKSFreight slot and dock time locked to the right building.
−2 WEEKSComplete build stands in our shop; photo sign-off from your desk.
SHOW WEEKInstall lands in your window; you fly in to a working stand.
Rush and last-minute

A month of runway is enough runway

A machine that cleared customs late, a space upgrade in the final release, a stand vendor who went quiet in December — Atlanta emergencies cluster around its January giants. With design, fabrication and print in one building, approval-to-floor runs about four weeks. Same quality gate — built and photographed before shipping — same published price.

  • Roughly four weeks, approval to show floor
  • Photo-verified pre-build, even on rush
  • 10×10 through 20×40 (3×3 m through 6×12 m) on compressed timelines
  • The published price holds — no rush premium
Questions international exhibitors actually ask

Exhibition stands in Atlanta — FAQs

How much does an exhibition stand cost in Atlanta?
The table above is the answer: $13,000 – $15,500 for a 3×3 m (10×10) through $60,500 – $71,500 for a 9×12 m (30×40) — design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, freight, crews and management in one contractual USD figure. The venue bills space, electrical, drayage and rigging separately to every exhibitor; we forecast those lines against your stand before you sign.
We have no US company. Can we still work with you?
Yes — a large share of our clients exhibit in the US with no local presence at all. We invoice the fixed figure in USD to your home-country entity, accept international wire transfer and card, and provide the contract and payment documentation your finance team needs. No US bank account, address or subsidiary required.
Is it really cheaper to build in the US than to ship our stand?
Total both directions of ocean freight, insurance, customs or carnet fees, drayage on the full crated weight, and US labour assembling an unfamiliar metric kit, and the answer is nearly always yes — the comparison above walks through it line by line. The part no spreadsheet captures: a stand damaged mid-ocean weeks before your show has no good outcome. Building locally deletes the risk along with the cost.
Can you rebuild the stand design we use at European shows?
Yes. Send photos or CAD of your existing stand and we rebuild the design to US materials, US electrical code, and the height, rigging and setback rules of your specific show. Most designs translate directly; anything a regulation forces gets flagged at render stage — visible from your desk, months out — not on the show floor.
What is drayage, and is it in your price?
Drayage (material handling) is the venue’s fee for moving freight between dock and stand space, billed by weight and invoiced directly to every exhibitor — no vendor can legitimately include it, and any who claims to has buried it. We forecast the line precisely against your actual stand before you sign, then file inside the advance-rate window. A locally built stand also simply weighs less at the dock than an imported crate, which is the honest way that bill shrinks.
Can our own team build the stand in Atlanta?
Each show’s regulations govern what exhibitors may do themselves on a Georgia floor, and a custom island is crew-built work under any of them. Our fixed price already carries the crews and supervision — for a team flying in from overseas, there’s nothing to build, source or manage either way.
We’re exhibiting processing equipment at IPPE. Can you build around the machine?
That’s the standard IPPE project. Your equipment travels on its own paperwork and freight; we engineer the stand around its exact footprint, service clearances and power draw from the first render, file floor loading with the venue, and coordinate the machine’s dock arrival and rigging into position alongside our install window. One calendar, two freight streams.
IWF only runs every other year. Is a custom stand worth it for that cycle?
The rental model fits alternating years better than ownership does: a fully custom-finished stand for each edition with no asset to warehouse for the 22 months in between. The approved design lives on as files and rebuilds next cycle — updated, not re-invented — at the published fixed price of that year.
How do approvals work across time zones?
Mostly asynchronously: renders and revisions move by email on a one-to-two-day cycle, and live calls are scheduled in your morning. The project has two hard checkpoints you can verify from anywhere — approved 3D renders before fabrication, and photographs of your completed, powered stand before it ships to the venue. We run projects with teams across Europe, the Gulf and Asia-Pacific on every major show cycle.
Our US calendar includes other cities. Do you cover them?
More than fifty of them — Chicago, Orlando, Houston, Las Vegas, Dallas and beyond, on the same published fixed model. One stand design, one project manager, and a known USD price in each city, so a multi-show US year budgets in a single sitting from your home office — the full directory lives on our US exhibition stand hub.
Fixed USD pricing · No US entity needed · Full-service

Your Atlanta stand, without the ocean.

Tell us the show and your space size — metres or feet. Within 24 hours: design concepts, one fixed USD figure, and the venue’s own charges forecast beside it. Approve everything from your desk; the only things that cross an ocean are your delegation and whatever equipment truly must.

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