Floor up. Built in our workshop.

Slatebank Works designs and builds exhibition stands, reusable stand systems, pop-ups and permanent brand spaces. Thirty people, a 3,400 m² workshop, and a crew that stays on the hall floor until the doors open.

Step 01: Floor

Raised floor down, levelled to the hall, cable routes cut in.

F-01floor · 100 mm

Step 02: Walls

Numbered panels stand up in the order they were drawn.

W-016 panels · store

Step 03: Structure

Header, bulkheads and rigging points lift into place.

H-01header · 4 truss

Step 04: Graphics & light

Fabric skins stretch on. Lights aim at the product, not the aisle.

G-01lightbox · 3 spots

Step 05: AV & furniture

Screens hung, counters set, stock on the shelves.

A-01screen · counter

Step 06: Handover

We walk it with you, close the snag list, and hand over the keys.

K-01keys · snag list

Built · Hall 4 · 24 m² corner · 2 days

Built under one roof

Built under one roof

3,400 m²

3,400

m² of workshop floor

Design, joinery, paint, print and storage in one building, so a panel recut on Thursday is on the truck on Friday.

64

64

Stands in 12 months

From a 9 m² shell-scheme upgrade to a 150 m² island with live robot cells.

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0

Missed opening days

In twelve years of build-ups. We rehearse every stand on our own floor before it ships.

71%

71%

Panels on a second show

Wall panels built in the last year that went on to another stand, another hall or another client.

150 square metres: the Axlewright Robotics island stand, seen through the numerals

HALL 2 · B14

Axlewright Robotics at Automata Week: a 10 × 15 m island with two working robot cells and a thirty-seat theatre, built in four days.

The studio's workshop: a CNC router cutting plywood stand parts, white panels stacked on trolleys

We own the tools, so we can change our minds late.

When a panel needs recutting on a Thursday, it gets recut on Thursday.

CNC routers

2 · bed 3.1 × 2.1 m

Paint shop

12 m spray booth

Fabric print

3.2 m wide, in-house

Storage

180 racked bays

People

30 · 14 makers and fitters

“Our kit has now done five shows in four halls. Each time it came back with a different shape, new graphics and the same counters. Our budget line for stands went down, and nobody on the floor noticed.”

Hana Reyes-Whitlock · Events Lead, Pellin & Oake

Got a show in the diary?

Try a footprint and the open sides, then send us the show, the dates and a budget band. You get a first call within two working days.

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