Exhibition Stand Builder for EuroPCR in Paris

EuroPCR 2027 runs 18–21 May 2027, Tuesday to Friday, at the Palais des Congrès de Paris at Porte Maillot. It is organised by Europa Group and held annually in Paris each May. The 2026 edition, which ran 19–22 May 2026, drew 12,147 participants according to the organiser's own published figure.

Yes, and it is better handled at concept stage than at drawing stage. EuroPCR is approved as compliant with the MedTech Code of Ethical Business Practice, which constrains hospitality, entertainment and promotional items offered to healthcare professionals. In stand terms that means we do not design in a giveaway counter or a hospitality bar, and we do put the budget into demonstration positions and enclosed meeting space instead. What we cannot do is give you a legal opinion — your own compliance team owns the interpretation, and we build to what they approve. Send us their requirements with the brief and the first design will already respect them, rather than being redrawn in April.

A 9 m² modular stand runs €4,100–€8,700 and an 18 m² modular stand €4,800–€10,100. A 24 m² custom stand with two demonstration positions is typically €11,500–€15,000, and 30 m² with an enclosed meeting room €15,000–€19,000. At 48 m² with three demonstration positions and two meeting rooms, expect €19,000–€26,000. Premium builds from 60 m² upward start around €34,000. Floor space is bought separately from the organiser and is not in any builder's quote.

No, and it never is with any builder. Floor space is a contract between you and the organiser, priced per square metre by the organiser, and it is paid to them directly. Our quote covers design, manufacture, graphics, freight, installation, on-site supervision and dismantling. Any builder quoting a figure that appears to include floor space has either misunderstood the question or is quoting something else.

There is no customs process to handle. Germany and France are both in the EU customs union, so a stand travelling from our Frankfurt workshop to Paris crosses no customs border — no declaration, no carnet, no bond, no inspection. It is a road journey of roughly 570 km. This is a real scheduling advantage over builders shipping into the EU from outside it, where customs clearance has to be planned as a distinct step with its own risk of delay.

Six months before the show for floor space, five months to brief a builder, and design signed off with compliance approval three to four months out. Four weeks out the stand should be built and dry-assembled in the workshop. We can work faster than this and regularly do, but the compressed version costs more and removes the slack that absorbs problems. The deadline that catches people is not ours — it is the organiser's deadline for ordering venue services, which typically falls well before the show and carries late surcharges after it.

Access, principally. The Palais des Congrès is a congress centre, so material reaches the exhibition level through a loading area and goods lifts rather than by driving a truck to the plot. That makes maximum panel size a hard design constraint rather than a detail. Build-up windows at congress venues are usually shorter and often scheduled into evenings, and overhead rigging is frequently restricted or unavailable, so lighting and height presence have to come from the stand structure itself. A stand designed for Villepinte and then sent to Porte Maillot is the standard way this goes wrong.

Yes, and it is usually the right thing to do at this event. What it needs is planning: bench-height working surface, dedicated task lighting over it, orientation into the stand rather than out at the aisle, and acoustic separation from your neighbours. Anything requiring power beyond a standard supply, or data, is a venue service ordered from the organiser against a finalised layout, and those orders are position-dependent and cannot be moved once the floor build starts.

More than you would give it at a trade fair. At a general fair, 20 percent of the footprint as meeting space is normal. At a clinical congress, medtech stands that work commonly go past 40 percent, because the valuable outcome is a small number of long conversations rather than a large number of short ones. If you are taking 24 m² or more, decide how many simultaneous private conversations you need before anything else about the layout is settled.

We build double-deckers across Europe, and whether one is possible at this venue depends entirely on the height allowance and structural rules in the current technical manual, which vary by level and by event. Congress-centre exhibition levels are generally lower than purpose-built halls, so a double-decker that works at Villepinte may not be permitted here. We check the manual before proposing one rather than after, and if it is not viable we will say so at the design stage.

Our own installation crew builds and dismantles the stand, and a site supervisor is present through build-up and breakdown. Your project manager — the person you have dealt with from the first email — is contactable throughout the show. We do not hand the project to a local subcontractor and pass you their number, which at a compliant event matters more than usual because on-site questions tend to be judgement calls rather than technical ones.

For a first EuroPCR, 9 to 18 m² is usually the right answer. It buys presence and one properly built demonstration position, and it lets you learn how the audience behaves at this event before committing a larger budget. The mistake is not taking too little space — it is taking 30 m² and filling it with open frontage that generates traffic you have not staffed to convert into conversations.

Often, yes. If your current stand is a modular system we can usually reconfigure it for the Palais des Congrès footprint and replace graphics, which is substantially cheaper than a new build. If it is a bespoke build designed for drive-in hall access, the honest answer is that it may not pass through the lifts, and we would rather tell you that in January than discover it on the loading dock. Send us the drawings or the panel schedule and we will give you a straight assessment.

Design including 3D visuals, manufacture in our Frankfurt workshop, graphics design and print, road freight to the venue, installation, on-site supervision, dismantling and removal, plus the organiser paperwork. Not included: floor space, venue services ordered from the organiser such as power and water, AV and screen hire, catering, hostess or interpreter staff, and any furniture beyond the specified schedule. All of this is itemised in the quote.

Yes, free and before contract, typically within 48 hours of a clear brief. A useful brief states stand size and position, how many simultaneous private meetings you need, what has to be demonstrated and how, your compliance constraints, and a budget range. It does not need to describe what the stand should look like — that is our job, and briefs that specify appearance first often specify away the thing that would have worked.

Scale and intent. A large medical trade fair is a buying environment with broad specialty coverage and procurement people in the aisles. EuroPCR is a single-specialty teaching course, so the audience is narrower, more technically expert, and attending primarily to learn. Stand design follows: less frontage, more seated conversation, demonstration built for close inspection rather than for visibility across a hall, and compliance shaping the brief from the start.

Our supervisor is on site to deal with it, and because the workshop is 570 km away by road rather than on another continent, a replacement part is a driving problem rather than a freight problem. This is one of the practical reasons we build in Frankfurt rather than subcontracting: a panel we made, we can remake. It is also why the stand is dry-assembled and inspected in the workshop before loading — the intention is that the first assembly is never the one on the exhibition floor.

Yes, regularly. If you are based outside the EU, the build still happens in Frankfurt and travels to Paris without customs formalities, so your stand does not inherit your own shipping constraints. What you should plan carefully is anything you bring yourself — product samples, devices, literature — because those do have to enter the EU and that is a separate process with its own timeline. We will flag what needs to be in the country early.

Yes. A modular stand can be stored at our Frankfurt workshop between events and reconfigured for the next one, which is generally worth doing if you exhibit two or more times a year in Europe. Storage and refurbishment are quoted separately and honestly — if a stand has reached the point where refitting costs more than rebuilding, we will tell you rather than quietly charging for the refit.

Send the brief through the form on this page or by email. The information that gets you an accurate number quickly is stand size, stand position or hall drawing if you have it, how many private meeting positions you need, what has to be demonstrated, your compliance requirements, and a budget range. We will come back with a free 3D design and an itemised quote, and there is no obligation attached to either.