A congress stand where people actually sit down.
Merck is the oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company in the world: founded in Darmstadt in 1668, and still controlled by the founding family, today it covers healthcare, life sciences, and electronic materials. In France, its healthcare teams notably support patients being treated for thyroid, growth, and metabolic disorders. For the 42nd congress of the French Society of Endocrinology, at the Palais des Congrès de Bordeaux, Merck entrusted Expace with the design and creation of its custom-made stand.
In a hall where hundreds of exhibitors are all selling cameras, the product does not speak for itself: a SWIR sensor fits in one hand and shows nothing. Hence the approach: not exhibiting products, but images. Four stations, four screens, four live-running demonstrations. The visitor does not look at a camera placed on a pedestal — they see what the camera sees, and understand in three seconds what would have taken ten minutes to explain to them.
Above the whole setup, a double-sided L-shaped suspended sign, supported by a technical truss loaded with about twenty spotlights: the logo can be read from one end of the aisle to the other, long before the stand is distinguished, and carries the brand's promise — Reveal the invisible. Below, the space is read in three phases. The light wood reception counter, at the corner entrance, with its brochure display. Along the night-blue wall, the line of demonstration stations — SWIR line-scan for food sorting and recycling, Phasics wavefront analysis, Extended SWIR for material identification, Telops thermal imaging for wafer inspection — each titled above its screen. In the center, the showcases and backlit podiums, where components and compact cameras can be examined closely.
The rest lies in the palette: deep night blue, lacquered white, light wood, anthracite carpet, and that cyan band of light running under the base of all the furniture, making the pieces float above the floor. Nothing showy, all about contrast — at an imaging trade show, it is controlled darkness that highlights the screens.
Design, workshop manufacturing, transport to Stuttgart, assembly and dismantling at the Messe exhibition center: a single contact person across the entire chain, in France as well as internationally, as with all of our Energy & IT stands.
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Place:
Bordeaux Congress Center
Date :
2026
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