
Trade Show Display Cases
The show date does not move. Everything else in the schedule has to bend around it.
A trade show display case is a portable acrylic enclosure that presents and protects product on a booth counter, then packs down and travels to the next show. Wetop Acrylic manufactures custom trade show display cases, counter risers, literature holders, pedestals, and branded giveaway blocks — also called plexiglass or PMMA fixtures — for exhibit managers, brand marketers, and the exhibit houses that build their booths.
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Why Exhibitors Choose Acrylic Booth Fixtures
Exhibitors use acrylic because a booth fixture must do three things: present product cleanly under show lighting, survive repeated packing and shipping, and go back together on the floor in minutes. At equal size and wall thickness, acrylic weighs about half what glass does and will not shatter in transit. MOQ is 100 pieces; samples 3–5 days, production 15–20 days.
Two recent examples from our factory: 1,500 branded acrylic giveaway blocks across three tiers in 14 days, and 50 custom mahjong sets — 7,600 tiles — in 14 days from artwork to ex-factory, both against fixed show dates.
| Fixture spec | What we build to |
|---|---|
| Wall thickness | 3 mm for literature holders and light risers; 5 mm for counter display cases; 8–10 mm for pedestals and any piece carrying product weight or taking daily show-floor handling. |
| Pack-down | Bonded one-piece for small fixtures, or knock-down panels with pre-drilled captive hardware for anything that will not fit a shipping case at full size. We build to whichever your crew can reset without a toolbox. |
| Travel packing | Foam-grid inserts cut to the fixture profile, so a kit travels as roller luggage or a single road case instead of loose cartons that chip corners in transit. |
| Branding | UV printing, silk-screen, hot stamping, or laser engraving directly into the acrylic. Nothing applied to the surface that can lift between shows. |
| Edge finish | Flame-polished as the default; diamond-polished where the fixture sits at eye level under booth lighting and the edge itself is part of the look. |
Travels Without Breaking
Cast acrylic is 1.19 g/cm³ against roughly 2.5 g/cm³ for glass — half the freight weight at the same size and thickness, and it does not shatter into the booth carpet when a case gets dropped.
Resets in Minutes
Knock-down panels with captive hardware go together with a hex key. Every knock-down design is test-assembled at our factory before it ships, with an assembly guide packed in the case.
Survives Show After Show
Branding is printed or engraved into the material, not applied to it, so the eighth show looks like the first. Applied vinyl starts lifting at the corners long before the fixture wears out.
What We Build for Trade Show Booths
The acrylic fixtures exhibitors order most — the counter kit that does the selling, plus the giveaway that leaves with the prospect.
Countertop Display Cases
Portable acrylic cases that cover a hero product on the booth counter — visible from every angle, out of reach of passing hands. Bonded one-piece or knock-down for flat shipping.
View Countertop Display Cases →Acrylic Risers
Tiered risers that lift samples and SKUs off a flat counter so a visitor reads the whole range in one glance. The cheapest way to make a small booth look merchandised.
View Acrylic Risers →Acrylic Brochure Holders
Slanted A4, A5, and DL holders for spec sheets, catalogs, and lead-capture cards. Keeps paper upright and faced instead of curling in a stack by the end of day one.
View Brochure Holders →Acrylic Sign Holders
Counter and tabletop sign holders for pricing, show promotions, and QR codes. Graphics swap between shows without replacing the holder.
View Sign Holders →Acrylic Display Pedestals
Freestanding pedestals for a launch product or an award piece, positioned at the booth entrance where aisle traffic turns in. Knock-down construction for repeat travel.
View Display Pedestals →Acrylic Blocks & Branded Giveaways
UV-printed and laser-engraved acrylic blocks that stay on a prospect's desk after the show. Tiered by thickness so booth walkers, qualified leads, and VIP meetings each get a different piece.
View Acrylic Blocks →Three Trade Show Display Scenarios
The Portable Counter Kit

Most exhibitors need one thing before anything else: a counter that looks deliberate. The kit that does it is small — a countertop display case over the hero product, a tiered acrylic riser staging the rest of the range, and a slanted brochure holder keeping spec sheets upright instead of curling in a stack by mid-morning.
We build these as a matched set, with the same wall thickness and the same edge finish across every piece, and pack them in one foam-grid case cut to the fixture profile. That is the difference between a portable display case that arrives ready and three loose cartons your crew opens hoping the corners survived. For a standard 10 × 10 ft inline booth we size that case so one person can carry the whole kit.
Display Components for a Modular Booth

If your booth is a modular trade show booth system, the frame is already handled — what is usually missing is the acrylic that goes into it. We cut and finish shelves, panels, product cradles, and case bodies to the openings in your existing system, working from the extrusion profile and opening dimensions your exhibit house supplies. Cut-to-size acrylic shelves and pedestals ship knock-down and reassemble with a hex key.
Where the boundary sits: we make the acrylic, not the structure. We do not engineer booth framing, truss, or wall systems, and we will not certify a load rating on another supplier's frame — the exhibit house owns that. What we will do is hold tight tolerances against their drawing so the panels seat cleanly the first time, and produce a full set of spares in the same run so a cracked shelf on a Tuesday does not cost you the rest of the season.
Giveaways, Samples & Lead Capture
The fixture does its work on the booth; the giveaway keeps working from a prospect's desk after the hall empties. UV-printed and laser-engraved acrylic blocks work here because they are heavy enough in the hand to read as a gift rather than a flyer, and tiering them by thickness lets you hand a different piece to a booth walker, a qualified lead, and a VIP meeting without running three separate programs.
We shipped exactly that: 1,500 blocks across three thickness tiers in 14 days, packed 300 to a foam-grid case so five cases covered the entire inventory and booth staff moved it through the airport in roller luggage. On the sample side, compartmented risers and sign holders keep small SKUs faced and priced through three days of handling.
Show-Deadline Projects From Our Factory
Two programs built against fixed show dates at our Shenzhen facility — the schedule discipline behind a trade show order.
1,500 Branded Acrylic Giveaway Blocks, 3 Tiers, 14 Days
1,500 units · 3 thickness tiers · 14-day rush production · 300 units per foam-grid case
Foam-grid packing at 300 units per case brought the shipment down to 5 cases, so booth staff carried the whole giveaway inventory through the airport in roller luggage.
50 Custom Mahjong Sets in 14 Days for a Show Deadline
50 sets · 7,600 tiles · 14 days artwork to ex-factory · 48-hour proof-tile sign-off
A 48-hour proof-tile sign-off window was the only reason the 14-day schedule held. The show date was fixed; the approval calendar was the variable we had to compress.
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Send Us Your IdeaWho Orders Trade Show Displays?
Six roles that spec and buy booth fixtures — each arriving with a different constraint.
Exhibit & Trade Show Managers
Speccing booth fixtures that ship, reset, and survive a full show calendar without a rebuild between stops.
Product Marketing Managers
Staging a launch product so it reads as the hero of the booth rather than one item on a crowded counter.
Exhibit Houses & Booth Builders
Sourcing cut-to-size acrylic panels, cases, and shelves that drop into the modular system they already build on.
Event Marketing Agencies
Producing coordinated fixture kits for several client booths on overlapping show calendars.
Multi-Show Procurement
Buying one program of identical kits for a season of regional shows instead of reordering per event.
Distributors & Rep Firms
Equipping partner and dealer booths with the same branded display set across every regional show.
How to Order Trade Show Displays
From your first message to fixtures on the booth counter — 3 steps.
Send Your Show Date & Booth Size
Give us the show date, booth dimensions, what you are displaying, and the quantity. If your exhibit house has drawings or an extrusion profile, send those too — we work the whole schedule backward from the date.
We respond within 24 hoursApprove a Sample
We build a physical sample to your specs. Check fit, edge finish, clarity, print registration, and how fast it packs down. Request changes — we revise until the sample is what you want on the counter.
Sample ready in 3–5 daysProduction & Delivery
The approved sample becomes the production reference. Every unit is inspected against it — not spot checks, every piece. FOB Shenzhen, CIF, or DDP to your advance warehouse.
Production in 15–20 daysFrequently Asked Questions
How much does an acrylic trade show display case weigh, and how does it ship?
Weight comes straight from the material. Cast acrylic is 1.19 g/cm³ against roughly 2.5 g/cm³ for glass, so at the same dimensions and the same wall thickness an acrylic case runs about half the weight of the glass equivalent. A 300 × 200 × 250 mm five-sided cover in 3 mm acrylic works out to roughly 1.1 kg; add a 5 mm base and the finished case is about 1.5 kg, or 3.3 lb. We ship kits in foam-grid cases cut to the fixture profile — sized so booth staff can move them in standard roller luggage where the piece count allows, or palletized for larger programs. Air freight is available when the show date is tight.
Do the displays need assembly on the show floor?
Tell us which you want and we build to it. Small cases, risers, and literature holders ship bonded and one-piece — the crew unpacks them and sets them down. Larger cases, pedestals, and anything that will not fit a shipping case at full size ship knock-down: pre-drilled panels with captive hardware, assembled with a hex key in a few minutes per unit, no adhesives and no solvent on site. Every knock-down design is test-assembled at our factory as part of 100% pre-shipment inspection, and we include an assembly guide with the shipment.
Will the fixtures survive multiple shows, or is this a one-show build?
Reuse is what we design for, and it is why we put branding into the acrylic rather than on it. UV printing, silk-screen, hot stamping, and laser engraving all survive repeated packing and unpacking; applied vinyl lifts at the corners after a few shows. Acrylic scratches more easily than glass, so for kits that travel a full season we specify thicker walls, radiused corners, and foam-grid cases cut to the fixture profile rather than loose cartons. If you run a full show calendar, order a few spares in the same production run — a spare made alongside the original costs far less than a rush reorder mid-season, and it matches, because it came off the same tooling.
Can you produce identical kits for a multi-booth or multi-show rollout?
Yes. We produce every kit against one approved physical sample, so a program covering ten regional shows gets the same dimensions, the same edge finish, and the same print registration in every crate. We can ship in batches timed to your show calendar instead of all at once, which keeps kits out of your warehouse until you need them. Send the calendar with your first inquiry and we confirm feasibility within 24 hours.
Can you ship DDP to a US show venue or advance warehouse?
We quote FOB Shenzhen by default and can also quote CIF or DDP. For trade shows we usually recommend shipping to your advance warehouse or an office address rather than direct to the venue — show-site receiving windows are narrow and drayage is billed by the venue's general contractor, not by us, so a direct-to-venue delivery adds cost and risk you cannot control. Give us the deadline and the receiving address and we schedule production and freight backward from it.
Do you work from our CAD drawings, or can you start from a sketch?
Either works. If you have CAD, send it — we accept DWG, DXF, STEP, and PDF, and our engineering team returns a production drawing for sign-off before anything is cut. If you have a sketch, a reference photo, or simply the product you need to display plus the counter dimensions, that is enough to start; we draw it and you approve the drawing. Nothing is cut until a drawing is approved, and nothing goes into bulk production until you have approved a physical sample.
Do you build the trade show booth structure itself?
No. We manufacture the acrylic display components that go inside a booth — display cases, counter risers, literature and sign holders, pedestals, and giveaway blocks. We do not engineer or erect booth structures, aluminum framing, truss, lighting rigs, or the modular wall systems those parts mount onto, and we do not certify load ratings on another supplier's frame. Most exhibitors buy the structure from their exhibit house and the acrylic from us. If your exhibit house sends the extrusion profile and the opening dimensions, we cut and finish acrylic panels to fit that system.
What is the MOQ and lead time if my show date is close?
MOQ is 100 pieces per design. Paid samples ship in 3–5 days and production runs 15–20 days, so a standard schedule needs roughly four weeks from approved sample to ex-factory, before freight. We have shipped tighter: 1,500 branded acrylic giveaway blocks across three tiers in 14 days, and 50 custom mahjong sets in 14 days from artwork to ex-factory. Rush schedules turn on how fast you approve the sample — approval lag, not factory speed, is what usually costs a show deadline.
Tell Us the Show Date. We Quote in 24 Hours.
One counter kit or a season of identical booth programs — send the date, the booth size, and what you are displaying, and we come back within 24 hours with a schedule that works backward from the show floor.
Trade show case studies
Two programs we shipped against fixed show dates — the giveaway tiering model and the rush-production schedule behind them.

1,500 branded acrylic giveaway blocks, 3 tiers, 14 days
A three-tier trade-show giveaway program packed 300 to a case so booth staff carried the whole inventory as roller luggage.
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50 custom mahjong sets in 14 days for a trade-show deadline
7,600 tiles from artwork to ex-factory in 14 days, held together by a 48-hour proof sign-off window.
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