TE Connectivity · MD&M West 2026
A connector disappears inside the device. At MD&M West, TE put it floor to ceiling.
TE Connectivity’s components live inside other companies’ medical devices — surgical-grade connectors handling up to 612 pins, interventional catheter parts, sensing solutions. For MD&M West 2026, Pure Exhibits built a custom 20 × 30 island at the Anaheim Convention Center that made the invisible parts the whole argument: an orange landmark sign overhead, life-size surgical imagery at eye level, and a backlit digital-anatomy wall pulling engineers off the aisle.
Selling components in a hall of 1,700 suppliers
MD&M West is the largest medical design and manufacturing event in North America — three days, 1,700+ exhibitors, part of the five-sector IME West co-location at the Anaheim Convention Center. TE Connectivity arrived with the claim it makes everywhere: more of your device, fewer suppliers. On a floor where every aisle holds another component vendor, that claim gets checked in person.
The brief cut two ways. The booth had to show breadth — connectors to 612 pins, catheter components, sensing — and still hold space for the conversations that actually move a design win: an engineer, a spec sheet, and somewhere quiet enough to argue about tolerances.
“Every connection counts. More of your device, fewer suppliers — strength where devices are hardest to get right.”TE Connectivity — MD&M West 2026
Precision, made visible
The Landmark Sign
A square overhead structure in TE’s signature orange, white logo on all four faces, hung high enough to read from any aisle. At IME West scale — five industry sectors sharing one venue — the booths that win day two are the ones people can find again. The sign made TE the reference point.
The Medical Imagery
Floor-to-ceiling fabric panels of surgeons at work — scrubs, loupes, operating rooms — carrying “Every Connection Counts” at human scale. A component catalog is abstract; a life-size procedure that depends on those components is not.
The Digital Anatomy Wall
A backlit skeletal system rendered in cyan — an X-ray aesthetic making one visual argument: connectivity runs through devices and bodies alike. It was the booth’s conversation starter, opening into TE’s interventional, imaging, and sensing lines.
The Reception Hub
A white counter on a striped architectural base, orange LED running the full perimeter, stools alongside. First contact happened here — and so did routing: each visitor pointed to the demo station or specialist matching their project, instead of wandering a 600 sq ft island unescorted.
The Wooden Slat Screens
Vertical wood-finish fins carved semi-private meeting zones out of the open plan — acoustic and visual separation for the tolerance conversations, without walling the booth off from the floor. Warm texture against clinical white was the secondary benefit.
The Yellow Portfolio Walls
Bright yellow panels as a scannable capability menu — “Precision & Control,” “Therapy Delivery & Actuation,” “Data, Sensing & Connectivity.” An engineer with thirty seconds could find their product line before a word was exchanged.
The booth in detail
Experience the booth
A walkthrough of the TE Connectivity island at MD&M West 2026 — from the orange landmark sign, past the anatomy wall and reception hub, into the slat-screened meeting zones.
The build at a glance
A component maker, out front
A supplier’s work disappears into the finished device by design — which is exactly why the trade show matters. MD&M West is the one place the engineers specifying those components stand in the same room as the people who make them, and the booth’s job was to convert that proximity: anatomy wall to conversation, portfolio wall to product line, slat-screened table to spec review.
The design held clinical authority and approachability in the same footprint — white surfaces and surgical imagery on one register, warm orange, wood texture, and seating on the other. For another connectivity company argued at booth scale, see Moxa at DTECH.
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Component companies win trade shows the same way they win design-ins — by being findable, legible, and worth a longer conversation. Pure Exhibits designs and builds custom booths from 10 × 10 inlines to large islands for MedTech and technology brands at MD&M West, CES, RSA and beyond, with fixed, transparent pricing.