MD&M Midwest 2027Exhibitor guide: booth costs, dates and deadlines

For a parts or contract manufacturing supplier here the usual starting point is a 10×20: $7,500 to $15,000 as a rental with us, $15,000 to $45,000 custom. A 20×20 island with a running cell is $50,000 to $120,000 custom. Robot guarding, demo power and machine freight move the number. Informa prices space privately and Freeman bills its services separately.

The 2027 dates are not confirmed yet, so no 2027 form deadline is published. Informa's contract terms tie payment to the show date: 30% due 12 to 9 months out, 60% by 9 to 6 months, and the full balance 6 months before. We need design sign-off about 10 weeks before move-in.

A rental from us is a 10×20 or larger kit: printed back wall, a lit sample counter with lockable storage, a demo bay with power routed under the floor, LED lighting and a meeting table, with freight, setup and dismantle on one fixed proposal. When the show closes the kit comes back to our storage, so nothing waits in your warehouse.

For the 2026 show Freeman is the official contractor for labor, material handling and rigging, and Informa urges caution with any company that is not on its vendor list. We work inside those rules: we file the Booth Review Form in the Exhibitor Portal, book the Freeman labor your booth needs and lead the crew ourselves.

No. Entries must be released within the last 12 months or on sale within 24 months after the event, made or exclusively distributed by an exhibitor, and prototypes are excluded. Entry is free, up to three products, through the Exhibitor Portal, with an answer by email within 72 hours. We show your prototypes at the booth instead.

Freeman bills material handling, the move from dock or advance warehouse to your booth, directly to each exhibitor at the rate in the show's kit, and Informa has not published a 2027 rate. Demo machines and fixtures make up most of the weight, so we weigh every crate, consolidate where we can and show the estimate as its own proposal line.

We design the counter, demo base and wall frame to travel, so the same kit can go to MD&M West in Anaheim in February, MD&M East in New York or OMTEC near Chicago with new sector graphics for each audience. In the gaps we hold it in storage, swap the sample parts and send it on to whichever advance warehouse comes next.

Informa runs the floor as five sectors, Medical, Automation, Design & Manufacturing, Plastics and Packaging, and you choose three preferred locations on the floor plan when you book. Pick the sector your main buyer walks; we then print the other sectors you serve on your header so cross-over visitors still stop.

We do. We order furnishings, rigging, signage and material handling from Freeman, internet from Smart City and any catering from Kelber Catering, the official 2026 vendors, and place electrical through the Exhibitor Portal forms. You get one list of what was ordered, with every service line priced on our proposal.

MD&M Midwest 2027 dates are not confirmed yet; the latest edition Informa has published is October 28–29, 2026. The 2024 and 2025 editions also ran in October in Minneapolis, on October 16–17, 2024 and October 21–22, 2025. We plan your build backward from the dates once Informa posts them.

The 2027 city and venue are not confirmed yet. The 2026 show is at the Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis, the same building as the 2025 edition and the 2022 and 2023 Advanced Manufacturing Minneapolis shows. For 2026, onPeak is the only hotel provider the show endorses.

Informa counted 575+ exhibitors at the October 2025 show. Under the Advanced Manufacturing Minneapolis name the 2023 edition drew over 5,200 attendees and more than 620 exhibitors, and the November 2022 show more than 5,000 verified registrants and 595 exhibitors. Attendance for 2027 is not confirmed yet.

It is a trade event for manufacturing professionals, with the Expo Pass free on early registration in 2026, $49 later and $199 onsite. No one under 18 may enter the expo halls, and there is no childcare. Attendees register again every year, since registrations do not carry over.

Informa Markets Engineering, which also runs MD&M West, MD&M East and the MEDevice shows. You choose a booth size and three floor locations, then contract with its sales team. Priority points decide placement: one per year exhibited plus one per $3,500 spent at that year's event. We design to the space you get.