Stand walls and panels for the SEC Glasgow

The venue and what it demands

The Scottish Event Campus is the main exhibition and conference venue in Scotland, and for us it is the furthest point we deliver to: roughly 1,950 km from Fontanelle, across the Channel and the length of Britain, with a customs declaration on arrival.

We would rather be straightforward about what that means, because it is the only thing that really distinguishes a Glasgow job. Nothing is harder to make. But the schedule has no give in it: on a route this long, a dimension that changes after the consignment is documented means re-documenting it, and that is where days disappear. We ask for sizes frozen roughly three weeks out and for the importer of record named at order stage — the customs sequence is set out here.

In exchange, what arrives is finished and assembles dry in a single slot: edges done, cut-outs machined, connectors in the box, no saw on site. On a job this far from base that is not a convenience, it is the whole plan — there is no second delivery.

The campus calendar is broad — trade shows, conferences, consumer events, and the arena programme — with a high proportion of Scottish exhibitors who return every year. That is the classic case for owning a set of walls rather than hiring repeatedly, and on a UK-held stock it also means clearing customs once rather than every show. For a Scottish contractor exhibiting three or four times a year, that second saving is not small.

The main shows

What we are asked for most at this venue:

• Trade and industry shows of the Scottish calendar, with annually returning exhibitors.
• Conferences with exhibition floors — short build-ups, dry assembly, compact stands.
• Consumer shows — high footfall, material touched by the public.
• Energy and engineering shows — heavy exhibits, so levelling platforms and the reinforced version where something is fixed to the wall.

What we supply for a stand

What leaves Fontanelle for a build is almost always the same package:

• standard PSL panel for the stand walls, 40 or 50 mm, up to 6,000 mm tall;
• fire-rated version where the venue requires it — and in the UK the requirement needs reading twice, documentation included;
• stand doors, assembled and ironmongered, reversible, with vision panel or panic bar;
• levelling platforms, drilled for adjustable feet, for a raised floor;
• alignment rails, I·L·T·X connectors and cover strips for dry assembly, with no saw on the stand.

How and in what time we deliver

Standard sizes from our warehouse in the Netherlands. Our warehouse in Waalwijk holds thousands of raw honeycomb panels in standard sizes, ready to ship with no production lead time. It is about 100 km from Rotterdam Europoort: ferry to Hull, then roughly 420 km to SEC Glasgow — instead of 1,950 km by road from Italy, and cheaper. UK customs formalities still apply. More on the Waalwijk warehouse.

Made-to-measure and special versions are built in Fontanelle, province of Treviso, and that is where the lorries leave from. Glasgow is roughly 1,950 km away: delivery direct to the hall in your build-up slot, or to your store if you would rather prepare the stand first.

Great Britain is outside the EU, so every consignment carries an import declaration. Nothing about that is difficult, but it is sequential: we ask for sizes confirmed about three weeks out, and for the importer of record to be named at order stage rather than at dispatch — the whole picture is here.

Standard sizes are held in stock. We normally dispatch within 7 days of order confirmation, often sooner. No minimum order, single pieces included, and no surcharge for non-standard sizes: the price of the next standard size up applies.

Frequently asked questions

A stand to cost at SEC Glasgow?

Send us the drawing, the sizes and the quantities: you get a written quote, normally within 24 working hours, in English, German, French or Italian.