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The largest convention center in North America, a dense calendar of industry shows — and fire rules written in detail. Honeycomb walls from Italy, sized to your booth, with the documentation in your hands before the crate leaves.
McCormick Place hosts some of the biggest industry shows in the US: the National Restaurant Association Show every May, IMTS (manufacturing technology) in even-numbered years, the RSNA radiology meeting after Thanksgiving, and The Inspired Home Show for housewares. Many of them draw large European pavilions — and European exhibitors who want their booth to look like the one they build at home.
McCormick Place publishes its own fire safety regulations for booth construction. They require booth construction and decoration materials to be fire retardant; they reference NFPA 701 for fabrics and NFPA 703 and UL 1975 for other construction materials; wood that is not sufficiently fire retardant must be treated by a certified specialist; and they suggest keeping a certificate of retardancy at the show to avoid on-site testing.
Our fire-rated panels are classified B-s1,d0 under the European standard EN 13501-1 (Italian Class 1), with the MDF supplier's certificate and our declaration of conformity. Because that is a European classification, we send the documents at quote stage so you can clear them with the show's general service contractor and the fire marshal before production — not at the loading dock.
Source: McCormick Place, Fire Safety Regulations — Booth Staging (published by the venue). Rules are updated periodically; the show's exhibitor manual prevails.
A 10 ft module is 3,048 mm: three 1,016 mm (40 in) panels close it exactly. Custom widths up to 1,200 mm cost the same as stock.
Inline booths are usually capped at 8 ft: we cut 2,440 mm instead of the 2,500 mm stock length.
Up to 6,000 mm (19 ft 8 in) in one piece, in 40, 50 or reinforced 50 mm.
Pre-hung booth doors — reversible, sliding, double — for storage closets and meeting rooms.
Acceptance is decided by the show rules and the fire marshal. Our fire-rated panels are classified B-s1,d0 under EN 13501-1; we send the documents before production so they can be checked with the general service contractor.
Yes, through your forwarder or ours, within the advance warehouse receiving window published in the exhibitor manual — or to your exhibit house.
Yes, at no extra cost and from a single piece: 8 ft walls for inline booths, 40 in widths for a 10 ft module, or any size on your drawing up to 47.2 in wide.
Yes. Honeycomb panels are built to be assembled and taken down many times with dry connectors; laminated or lacquered finishes are the easiest to keep clean between shows.
Send the drawing and the show name. We reply the same day with a written quote in English and the fire documentation to check.