Recycling and ITAD Stand Builder for the E-Waste World Expo in Frankfurt

12–13 May 2027 at Messe Frankfurt, in Hall 3. It is organised by Trans-World Events and runs annually. Note that the 2026 edition was held in mid-June, so the 2027 slot is roughly five weeks earlier than the one you may remember.

E-Waste World, Battery Recycling, Metal Recycling, and ITAD & Circular Electronics all run in the same hall, and one free visitor registration admits people to all four plus every conference track. So the label you book under matters less than exhibitors expect. Book under the show that matches your sector for the exhibitor listing and the conference programme, then focus your effort on stand position within the hall — that does far more for your traffic than the badge on your booking.

From €4,500 to around €48,000 depending on size and what you are bringing. A modular 18 m² sits in the €4,800–€10,100 range. A 24 m² custom stand with one load-rated equipment position is typically €11,500–€15,000. A 48 m² with a demonstration area and a meeting room runs €19,000–€26,000. Premium and double-decker builds from 80 m² start around €34,000.

Three things. The floor space rental, which is between you and the organiser. Venue orders placed with Messe Frankfurt — electrical supply, rigging, waste removal, daily cleaning. And specialty add-ons: AV beyond the listed package, furniture beyond the standard set, catering, and staffing during the show.

Substantially. Your team is on the floor for roughly sixteen open hours in total, so every square metre has to earn its place inside that window. We usually recommend trading enclosed meeting space for open aisle frontage at the smaller sizes, and sizing the headline to read from four or five metres rather than from the counter. The stands that underperform here are the ones designed for a slow browse.

Yes, and it is the normal case at 24 m² and above. We engineer the plinth to the machine's real crated weight, plan the access route so the unit lands before the structure closes around it, and design the three-phase distribution into the build. Send us the crated weight, footprint, lifting requirement and power draw at briefing stage.

It is a permissions question rather than a stand question, and it is decided in advance rather than at the loading bay. Transport rules and venue rules both apply, and damaged-cell examples are treated differently from new cells. Tell us at briefing stage and the declaration goes in alongside the venue orders. This is the item most often discovered too late on this floor.

No. Messe Frankfurt is our home venue. We build the stand in our own workshop on Hanauer Landstraße and drive it about twenty minutes to Hall 3 — no long-haul freight, no border, no customs file on the stand itself. Equipment you import from outside the EU is a separate matter and stays with you.

Because the show is short. Freight out, freight back, crew travel and accommodation are fixed costs that do not shrink when the doors are only open for two days, so they land on a much smaller return than they would at a week-long fair. On a two-day show that fixed block is a visibly larger share of the total, which is why a stand trucked in from several hundred kilometres away can cost noticeably more here for the same finished square metres.

Hall 3 is the exhibition hall. Zone and stand allocation are set by the organiser. Ask which of the four co-located shows your stand number falls within and tell us, because your immediate neighbours may be from a different part of the chain and that affects what the back wall needs to say.

Yes — electrical orders, rigging permissions, waste removal, daily cleaning, crew passes and build-up access. We file on the day a contract is signed. On a two-day tenancy the build-up window is short and the services deadlines fall well before it, so filing late is the one error that cannot be recovered.

A modular 9–18 m² stand goes up in one shift. A 24–48 m² custom stand with equipment takes a day plus positioning and commissioning time for the machine. Premium builds use the full window. Every stand is pre-assembled at our workshop first, which matters more here than usual — a two-day show gives you no spare morning to solve a problem discovered on site.

For a mid-May show, early March is comfortable. But equipment details bind earlier than the design does: if you are bringing a machine or anything containing cells, we need those specifications well before the visual design is final, because they determine the floor build and the paperwork.

On 18 m², two to three. On 24 m² with a machine running, three to four — someone has to stay with the equipment while another person works the aisle. At 48 m² and above, five or more. Add one person if you have a speaker in the conference programme, because footfall spikes when sessions break and that is exactly when your presenter is walking people over.

It changes the timing rather than the build. The conference tracks run inside the same hall across both days, so your presenter is sending people to the stand minutes after they finish rather than an hour later. We schedule the build so the stand is finished and staffed before the first session block on day one.

Yes, if it is built on a system frame. We store the structure in Frankfurt between editions and refresh the graphics. Because the show is annual and in the same city, the reuse case here is stronger than at almost any other show we build — there is no long-haul freight either way and no year-long storage gap to justify.

Usually, for the structure. What cannot be rushed is the venue services order and, if cells are involved, the declarations. Those have fixed deadlines that no builder can move. Given the compressed build-up on a two-day tenancy, this is the show to start earlier than you think you need to.

Yes, and we encourage it, particularly if equipment is involved. The workshop is on Hanauer Landstraße, about fifteen minutes from Frankfurt Airport and twenty from the exhibition grounds. You see the stand assembled, check the plinth and access route against your machine, and meet the crew who will install it.

Vector files for logos and certification marks, and high-resolution raster images at roughly 150 dpi at final print size. Because much of this audience is international and reading in a second language, send short factual technical copy rather than idiomatic marketing lines — it prints better and it reads faster from the aisle.

Yes — Formnext, Fi Europe, Eurobike, Chemspec and the Tech Show halls among others. Same workshop, same crew, same twenty-minute run. If you exhibit at more than one Frankfurt show in a year we plan them together and reuse the frame between them.

Send your stand size, your stand number and zone if you have them, and the equipment list including anything containing cells. You get a 3D design and a full itemised quote back.