AMI Plastics World Expos 2027Cleveland booth costs, dates and deadlines: exhibitor guide

For a lab-instrument or additive supplier, a Purple 10×20 rental runs $7,500 to $15,000; a custom 20×20 island built around a cutaway extruder or pelletizer runs $50,000 to $120,000. Machine weight, skids, compressed air and 208-volt hookups move the number most here. AMI quotes stand space separately through its sales team.

AMI publishes its logistics and health and safety details for exhibitors in the Exhibitor Resource Center, five to six months before the show. Under the Center's 2026 manual, Edlen supplies compressed air and water, anchoring into the floor is banned and an Edlen electrician makes every 208-volt connection, so we plan skids, guarding and power drops early.

A Purple rental for Cleveland covers the frame, printed fabric, LED lighting, a lockable counter, sample shelving for pellet and flake jars, freight to Freeman's advance warehouse and our install and dismantle, all on one fixed proposal. Machine skids and plinths are quoted as extras sized to your equipment.

Partly. Under the Center's 2026 exhibitor manual, you may unload your own vehicle in the POV area if the truck bed or trailer is 12 feet or shorter, using hand carry or dollies, for up to 20 minutes. Pallet jacks, forklifts and larger loads go through the general contractor and Teamsters Local 407.

You pay material handling to Freeman at the rates AMI posts in its Exhibitor Resource Center, which opens five to six months before the show. Extrusion and compounding equipment is heavy, so we price drayage as its own line on your proposal from the real crate and machine weights.

In 2026 the expos fill Halls A, B and C. The Center's 2026 specifications list Hall A at 53,000 square feet with a 25-foot ceiling, Hall B at 88,500 square feet and 30 feet, and Hall C at 83,500 square feet and 30 to 40 feet; Hall C holds the compounding area and Food Court. Your hall follows your expo and stand number.

We build Cleveland stands in modules so the sample walls, skids and graphics can travel to NPE in Orlando, CAMX in Anaheim or the Ceramics Expo back in Cleveland. Between shows we store the kit, and we reprint graphics for whichever audience comes next.

We do. We place your Freeman material handling and advance-warehouse labels, plus the Huntington Convention Center orders for Edlen electrical and air, Mills James rigging and internet, through the venue's online Exhibitor Services Center; its 2026 manual adds a 3 percent fee to card payments. Each order goes in before the 21-day advance-rate cutoff.

Wednesday and Thursday, November 10–11, 2027, in Cleveland. In 2026 the floor opened 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days; the 2027 hours are not confirmed yet. AMI has already published the next dates: November 15–16, 2028, November 14–15, 2029 and November 20–21, 2030.

At the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, 300 Lakeside Avenue, downtown on the lakefront, the venue AMI names with its published dates through 2030. The Hilton Cleveland Downtown sits directly above the expo halls, and the 1,200-space Huntington Park Garage connects directly to the Center.

AMI reported 5,453 attendees, 352 exhibitors and 103 speakers from 61 countries at the 2025 expos. In 2024 the Cleveland expos drew 5,676 visitors and 376 exhibitors, and in 2023 AMI counted 5,134 attendees and 347 exhibitors.

Entry to the exhibition and the conference sessions is free for every registered visitor, and registration opens six months before the show. For safety, children under 16 are not allowed on the show floor, and exhibitor staff must register as exhibitors, not visitors, to get the right badges.

Applied Market Information LLC, AMI, based in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, runs the four expos. You choose Compounding, Recycling, Extrusion or Polymer Testing on AMI's become-an-exhibitor form, and a member of AMI's team contacts you to discuss your stand and participation.