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- 500+ projects and 26+ years of exhibition experience.
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IMTS is AMT's manufacturing technology show in Chicago, and booths there are often built around running machine tools - heavy, powered and producing chips and noise on the show floor. ET Expo designs and fabricates the booth structure in-house and ships and installs it around your machines.
Show facts
- IMTS 2028: September 11-16, 2028, Chicago (the organiser has not named the 2028 venue on the page we checked)
- 2026 show: September 14-19, 2026: over 90,000 attendees, 1.17 million sq ft of exhibit space and more than 1,700 exhibitors
- Booth height (2026 rules): 8 ft for 10 ft deep booths, 12 ft for 20 ft deep, 16 ft for 30 ft or deeper
- Sound (2026 rules): Non-machine sound capped at 85 dB; machine operating noise exempt; no live performances during show hours
- Organiser: AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology
Planning a booth for this show
- Weight drives the bill: at the 2026 show a mandatory Custom Block program priced material handling, carpet, cleaning and machinery rigging per square foot, with final invoices based on the weight each exhibitor brought in - so we keep the booth structure light and let the machines carry the weight.
- Drawings on deadline: for 2026, islands, peninsulas, booths over 1,600 sq ft or over 16 ft high needed Show Management approval by June 30; we plan design sign-off well ahead of that date.
- Chips and coolant: finished work and chips had to be cleared every day after closing, so cutting demos get a collection point and floor protection in the design.
- Wiring: machine and display wiring followed NFPA 79 and the Chicago Electrical Code, with covered floor runs and a ground wire - we route power in the booth floor plan.
- Hanging signs need GES and Show Management approval, so the sign design goes in with the booth drawings.
Sources: IMTS official site - 2028 dates · IMTS - 2026 show figures · IMTS 2026 Complete Rules & Regulations (PDF)
