Custom-Quality Rental Exhibits, Ready for a Busy Show Schedule
Tap into a large, diverse inventory of pre-built booth properties, layered with vibrant SEG graphics, custom carpentry, and rentable AV. Quick lead times and coast-to-coast logistics keep your brand nimble across a packed show calendar, and no one on the floor will ever know it's a rental.
Modular Exhibits
Some of our featured modular work.
The Rental Advantage
Six reasons to choose a custom rental exhibit over owning, from a team that has been perfecting the rental model for decades.
Looks Fully Custom
Our rental exhibits are built from the same modular hardware, SEG fabric graphics, and finish materials we use for custom builds. That means no off-the-shelf, cookie-cutter look. Attendees see your brand, your environment, your story, not a generic shell everyone else on the floor is using.
Zero Storage Fees
Owned exhibits bleed money between shows, racked up in warehouse space whether you use them or not. With a rental, your booth lives in our 60,000 square foot Des Plaines facility until you need it, then goes back. Every dollar you would have spent on storage stays in your marketing budget.
Show-to-Show Freedom
Different show, different footprint, different goals. A rental program lets you reshape your presence every time you exhibit. Go big at your flagship event, trim down for regional shows, experiment with new layouts. No sunk cost locks you into yesterday's strategy.
Predictable All-In Budgeting
One show, one quote, one number on your PO. Rental programs fold design, graphics, structure, and logistics into a single clean line item, so forecasting annual exhibit spend stops being a guessing game. Finance teams love the clarity. Marketing teams love the freedom.
Zero Maintenance
Scuffed panels, damaged edges, worn lightboxes. Normal wear eats into an owned exhibit over time, and repairs stack up. Rental shifts every inspection, refurbishment, and component replacement to our team, so your booth always shows up looking show-floor ready.
Try Before You Buy
Not sure if a 20′×20′ island is the right footprint for your program? Rent it first. Use a rental to pressure test your booth size, layout, traffic flow, and messaging at a live event. When you do commit to buying, you'll be specifying a design you already know works.
Success Story
All World Machinery
A major peninsula at IMTS, without the capital commitment of ownership.
All World Machinery Supply needed a commanding presence at IMTS, the largest manufacturing technology show in the Western Hemisphere, with a 35′ × 70′ peninsula substantial enough to showcase machine tools, host customer meetings, and stand shoulder to shoulder with much larger competitors. They wanted the look of a fully owned custom build, but preferred the flexibility and cost profile of a rental so they could reshape their presence after the show.
A high-impact peninsula engineered for a rental program.
We designed the full 35′ × 70′ peninsula around All World's brand, leading with a large-format hanging sign to anchor sightlines across the IMTS floor. Modular aluminum framework combined with SEG fabric graphics, backlit brand panels, and a dedicated product showcase zone let us deliver a finish that reads fully custom. Inside the footprint we built out enclosed meeting rooms, open lounge seating, and clear traffic flow so the sales team could move prospects from demo, to conversation, to close without friction. Because it was a rental, we handled design, fabrication, logistics, install, and dismantle end to end.
Flagship-show presence, rental-program flexibility.
All World arrived at IMTS with a peninsula that held its own against much larger owned exhibits, complete with the hanging sign, demo zones, and meeting rooms their sales team needed to work the show. Because the program was built as a rental, they skipped the ownership costs, the storage fees, the refurbishment cycles, the capital outlay, while still walking the floor with a fully branded, visually premium environment. When the show closed, the structure came back to us for the next engagement. All of the impact, none of the baggage.
Rental FAQs
The real questions marketing teams ask before committing to a custom rental exhibit program.
A full turn-key program. That means custom design, structural hardware, SEG fabric graphics, AV and lighting integration, flooring, freight, install and dismantle, and show-site supervision. You get a single point of contact and a single invoice. We handle the moving parts so your team can focus on the show, not the logistics.
8 to 12 weeks is the sweet spot for a fully custom rental with original design, new graphics, and AV integration. We have pulled off faster turnarounds, including last-minute replacements when another vendor has fallen through. The earlier you engage us, the more design iteration, graphic revision, and show-site planning we can layer in.
They will not know. Our rentals are built on the same modular framework and SEG fabric system we use for custom purchase builds. Every surface is printed for your brand, every feature is designed around your goals. Attendees see a fully branded environment. The rental happens invisibly in the background.
Everything from a 10′×10′ inline to a 50′×80′ peninsula or larger island. We regularly build rentals in the 20′×20′ to 40′×60′ range with meeting rooms, product showcases, hanging signs, and integrated AV. Size flexes to the show. The design scales with it.
We dismantle it, ship it back to our Des Plaines facility, inspect it, and recondition it for the next program. Your graphics are either returned to you, stored with us, or recycled, your call. No warehouse bill, no disposal headache, no dismantle coordination on your calendar.
Absolutely, and it is one of the smartest ways to stretch your exhibit budget across a full calendar year. We store the graphics between shows, redeploy them onto a rental structure tailored to each venue's footprint, and swap in updates only where needed. Same brand story, different stage, minimal waste.
Yes, and it is a common play. Many clients own a core set of branded elements, a product showcase, a signature hanging sign, a demo station, and rent the rest of the footprint to match the show. We coordinate the structural integration, so the hybrid booth reads as one seamless environment on the show floor.
Renting usually wins when you exhibit 1 to 3 times a year, your footprint changes show to show, you want to pilot a bigger presence, or your branding is actively evolving. Ownership often wins at higher show volume with a stable booth size and brand. We are happy to walk through the math with you, both options on the same page, and help you choose what actually fits your program.
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