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Trade Show Booth Truss: Easy, Simple, And Worth It

by Wes Carlson

When you or your company wishes to make an impressive impact at a trade show, choosing the right trade show booth truss is one of the most important things to consider. As the correct trade show booth truss allows for customers to wander freely and look at the displays, while at the same time it holds all of the necessary products, posters, hardware, and lighting in place, the importance of the choice can't be emphasized enough.

Trade show truss systems are mobile, efficient and vary is sizes from as small as 10 foot square to twenty foot square and can be larger if required. All trade show truss systems are collapsible and can be reduced in size by 75% which make it easy to transport to different venues. A typical truss system is five to six inches in width which if more than wide enough to ensure stability while being light enough for easy adjustment and transportation.

Trade show display trusses are available in an array of different shapes. Even if you only need a single wall to hang posters on with a table for brochures and business cards sitting in front of it, you can still choose your wall from a variety of shapes. It might just be a straight line; however, it could also be a wavy line, a semi-circle, or a zigzag line. How about designing a combination of all three?

When working with a large booth, a custom trade show booth truss can be made from basic parts like brackets, base plates, curves, and walls, along with a wide range of shelves made for keyboards, laptops, and books. These can all be quickly put together to make the perfect display for your booth. To complement the truss system, optional additional mounts make it possible for projectors, plasma displays, and LCD units to be installed. A wide range of matching fold-up furniture, like chairs and circular tables, are also available for the comfort of your customers.

A complete trade show booth truss has to be designed from scratch. Suppliers are also available to meet your needs with ready made kits of various shapes and sizes. The most common shapes are X configurations with circles, arches and center bars. They are also available in squares and octagons. You can also add optional features such as raised ceilings, double decked displays and laptop stations.

In order to help focus on the important parts of a trade show booth and to guide customers, spotlights can be mounted on the trade show display truss. Depending on your needs, each individual spotlight can be turned on or off, rotated, and turned. Aside from the basic components and mounts, there's one more important part: the packing crate. A vital piece of equipment, not using it can end up in your display system being in danger of being scuffed, damaged, or completely broken as a result of troubles during shipping.

When you or your company wishes to make an impressive impact at a trade show, choosing the right trade show booth truss is one of the most important things to consider. All trade show truss systems are collapsible and can be reduced in size by 75% which make it easy to transport to different venues. Even a booth in a show that only needs one wall and a table for the sake of displaying various items has a lot of different options. The trade show display truss might be a zig zag, or a straight line, or wavy, or curved.

Published October 10th, 2007

Filed in Business, Management

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