Exhibition Stand Builder for Pollutec in Lyon

The flagship Pollutec runs 12–15 October 2027 (Tuesday to Friday) at Eurexpo Lyon in Chassieu. It is organised by RX France and held every second year, in odd years; the previous edition ran 7–10 October 2025. The 2025 edition gathered over 51,000 professional participants and around 2,000 exhibitors.

Both, but they are two different events. Pollutec Lyon is the four-day flagship at Eurexpo, in odd years — next in October 2027. STEP by Pollutec, which used to be called Pollutec Paris, is a smaller two-day event at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in even years, next on 1–2 December 2026. Different city, different venue, different scale. Check your booking before you plan a stand — some aggregator listings blur the two together.

From €4,500 to around €48,000 depending on size, equipment and meeting space. A modular 18 m² sits in the €4,800–€10,100 range. A 24 m² custom stand with a meeting space and one serviced position is typically €11,500–€15,000. A 48 m² with equipment and several meeting areas 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 RX France. The power, water, waste and rigging orders placed with the venue. And specialty add-ons — AV beyond the listed package, furniture beyond the standard set, catering, and staffing during the show.

Yes, and at this show it matters. We build on reusable system frames, specify recyclable and reused materials where they perform, and store the structure in Frankfurt for the next edition rather than skipping it on Friday night. Where your ESG or marketing team needs documented material provenance for the stand, tell us at briefing stage and we build it in.

Yes. We engineer the platform for the unit's real crated weight, and where a live rig needs process water we design the feed, containment and drainage into the floor build and plan the access route so the equipment lands after the structure is up. Send the crated weight, footprint and power and water needs at briefing stage — it shapes the platform more than any visual decision.

Only if you are running a live demonstration that uses water. Many Pollutec stands do not — the equipment is pumps, analysers or metrology that need power, not a feed. If yours does need water, it is ordered separately from the venue, it is position-dependent, and the deadline falls well before build-up, so tell us early and we file it alongside the power order.

No. Lyon is intra-EU for us. We build in Frankfurt and drive roughly 650 kilometres south, so there is no customs file and no border on the stand itself. Any equipment you ship in from outside the EU is separate and stays with you.

Because Pollutec is a project show. The buyer is usually assessing a plant, a service or a multi-year framework, not a shelf item, and those conversations are long and involve several people. A seated, semi-private space is the working part of a Pollutec stand, not a luxury — on a small stand it is a corner with a table, on a larger one a room. We plan it in from the start.

Hall and stand allocation is set by RX France. Eurexpo is the same venue we build at for Piscine Global, so its rules and access are familiar to us. We design to your current stand number and the confirmed hall plan for the 2027 edition, not to where the show sat previously.

Yes — power, water and waste orders, rigging permissions, waste removal, daily cleaning and crew passes. We file on the day a contract is signed, because the services deadlines fall well before build-up and they are the ones that cannot be recovered late.

A modular 9–18 m² stand goes up in one shift. A 24–48 m² custom stand with a meeting room and a serviced position takes one to two days, plus commissioning time for any equipment. Premium builds use the full window. Every stand is pre-assembled at our workshop first.

For a mid-October show, mid-August is comfortable. But if you are running equipment, the services orders bind earlier than the design does, so we need the equipment list well before the design is final — the water and power orders cannot wait for a styling decision.

It changes the arithmetic and reinforces the sustainability case. A custom build is amortised across a two-year gap rather than an annual one, which often justifies a better stand, and a reusable structure is both the greener and the cheaper answer over that gap. Storage between editions is a two-year commitment, which we handle in Frankfurt.

Yes, if it is built on a system frame — which is our default here for exactly this reason. We store the structure in Frankfurt and refresh the graphics for the next edition. Given the two-year cycle and how fast environmental regulation moves, the graphics will usually need updating anyway.

Usually, for the structure. What cannot be rushed is the venue services order — power, water and waste have fixed deadlines that no builder can move. That is the single reason to start a Pollutec stand earlier than you would an ordinary show if equipment is involved.

Yes, and we encourage it, particularly where equipment is involved. The workshop is about fifteen minutes from Frankfurt Airport. You see the stand assembled, check the platform and any service positions against your unit, and meet the crew before it leaves for Lyon.

Vector files for logos and certification marks, and high-resolution raster images at roughly 150 dpi at final print size. Given the international audience, send technical copy in English as well as French if you have both.

On 18 m², two to three. On 24 m² with a meeting space and equipment, three to four — someone needs to hold a conversation while another works the aisle. At 48 m² and above, five or more. Project conversations here run long, so plan for depth rather than footfall.

Send your stand size, your hall position if you have it, and the equipment list including whether anything needs water — and tell us if you need documented material provenance. You get a 3D design and a full itemised quote back.