Trade Show Emporium

Many companies fear going green for trade shows will break the bank.  However, having a green exhibit and saving money often go hand in hand.  Green practices can also be cost-effective, since you are reducing energy costs, eliminating unnecessary objects that spike your budget and lessen the overall amount of waste created.  Here are some tips that can reduce your impact on the environment and your check book.

• Analyze Goals.  Begin by analyzing and prioritizing what you need to meet your goals.  Eliminate unnecessary items and make sure everything for your tradeshow is valuable to your benefit.  If the item does add value, make sure it is used resourcefully.  For example, diminish excess lighting or opt for energy efficient light bulbs, such as LED Luminators.  Make sure lights and TVs are on only during the show to reduce energy use.

• Consider Rentals.  Renting items for your booth, such as a 10’ Pop-Up Display, is a very affordable option, and you don’t need to worry about booth storage or disposable after the show. 

• Green Giveaways.  Select your giveaways wisely, and make sure they are useful or they demonstrate your company’s message.  Try something sustainable, such as a reusable cloth shopping bag, stainless-steel water bottles, or organic chapstick from Elemental Herbs.  If you choose to provide giveaways, make sure they are memorable or consumable, so they are less likely to end up in a landfill.

• Reduce Paper.  Convert pre-show mailers to electronic emailers.  Instead of giving out paper brochures, print on demand only when necessary from your laptop, or if budgets allow, load portable USB drives with your literature that double as a memorable giveaway.  When you have to print, use recycled paper.  30% post-consumer content paper is the minimum guideline recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.

• Green Packing Materials.  Polystyrene packing peanuts do not readily degrade and can be very toxic once incinerated.  Luckily, there is a biodegradable packing peanut option.  Puffy Stuff provides durable, all natural, 100% biodegradable packing products.  These packing peanuts are also reusable, so use them again and again for all of your shows.

• Modular Structures.  Creating a custom modular, lightweight exhibit will actually save you money in the long run because often you can reconfigure your exhibit for different shows and booth sizes and swap out different graphic panels.  Adaptability such as this means you are not constantly buying new materials.  Consider the EcoFlys which have extrusions made of 70% recycled aluminum, recyclable shipping cases, LED lighting and glass made from 100% post-consumer recycled soda bottle content.

Going green isn’t about wasting money, in fact it is something that can save you money.  Buying products that are environmentally friendly also double as a marketing tool and demonstrates what is valuable in the long run for your company to consumers.  Transfer your next booth to a green booth by visiting www.tradeshowemporium.com today.

Hybrid portable display systems are ideal for companies seeking a semi modular display that is light and inexpensive to ship. Our Alumalite hybrid display system has been out for a few years and has served thousands of our customers well.

The drawback to the Alumalite display line is a question of sustainability; it’s produced with materials that are not considered to be environmentally friendly. Our customers are increasingly seeking Green solutions, eco-friendly alternatives to the Alumalite and other hybrid systems. To that end, Trade Show Emporium is proud to introduce our EcoFly Portable Display line. The EcoFly portable display is the most environmentally friendly hybrid on the market, the result of more than a year in R&D. The EcoFly units are priced the same as the non eco-friendly hybrid systems so why wouldn’t you go Green?

Our aluminum extrusions are lightweight, reconfigurable, and made from up to 70% recycled aluminum! These recycled aluminum extrusions provide structural integrity with significant design appeal. The wings and header are made from ReCo, a flexible substrate material made from 100% recycled plastics. The graphics are produced on Paradise fabric, made from 100% Recycled Soda Bottles, Paradise fabric is the highest quality 100% recycled content fabric made in America today. Even the shipping cases are recycled and recyclable. Rotationally molded from recycled plastics, these shipping cases are as durable as traditional cases currently used in the industry. The EcoFly units even come with a Green Materials Percentage Fact Sheet highlighting the environmentally friendly aspects of your EcoFly display!

The EcoFly units are currently available in three different configurations; Jupiter, Pluto, and Mercury each having unique wings and headers. The EcoFly displays are also available with optional LED lights, monitor mounts, literature racks, round bamboo shelves, fixed and freestanding counters, and you can even add graphics to your wings and header. To see the full line of EcoFly display units please visit www.tradeshowemporium.com

The trade show display rental program from Trade Show Emporium, Denver’s premiere portable trade show distributor, allows your company or business to avoid the long-term commitment of purchasing trade show booth hardware.

Available products that are available for rent include 8’ pop up display, 10’ pop up display, Alumalite display, literature rack, counters and carpeting. These products can be rented for a single-day show or for an extended amount of time. Customize a pop up display or Alumalite with graphic panels, which you can use again at your next show.

Trade Show Emporium’s trade show display rental service gives you temporary use of quality trade show equipment at a much lower cost than purchasing the display. Renting trade show displays is also an environmentally friendly conscious, as it helps eliminate the production of new booth and display hardware.

Trade Show Emporium, located in the bustling downtown Denver, can deliver a rental trade show display anywhere in Denver, Colorado, United States or Canada.

Rental trade show displays reserve quickly so make sure to put your reservation in early. Call 1-866-764-2968, email info@tradeshowemporium.com or visit the Web site at Trade Show Emporium.

As people worldwide are celebrating the Earth Day, Trade Show Emporium provides you with a brief list of how to make your existing and future trade show displays environmentally friendly.

Purchasing a green trade show display is the first and biggest step one takes to become environmentally friendly with their booth. Environmentally friendly trade show displays are made from socially responsible materials such as bamboo, recycled plastics and aluminum, water-based inks, carpet, fabrics and LED lights.

At the show there are several options to make your display greener. Reduce literature by printing less or printing on recycled paper. After your show is over you can recycle materials through a local agency, or at designated places in the convention center. When you are finished with your display unplug as many electronics items as you can. Items, such as lights, monitors, DVD players and many more still consume electricity even when turned off. Overtime all items added up will save a great deal of energy consumption.

Instead of sending back unused materials, recycle them locally. It will eliminate the need to ship, and reduce carbon eliminate waste. Also employing local talent reduces the carbon footprint created by traveling with your own sales team.

After your display is finished use a trade show display recycling service that will ensure the process of your display and supply you with a detailed report of materials processed.

For more information on how to make your environmentally friendly visit Trade Show Emporium at www.tradeshowemporium.com or call 1-866-764-2968.

DENVER — Since its establishment, Trade Show Emporium has had a strong commitment to being a company dedicated to the wellbeing of the environment and eliminating waste generated by the trade show industry.

As an industry, trade shows create a measurable amount of waste and have been called one of the most wasteful industries in the United States. Trade Show Emporium engages in several practices to help eliminate certain trade show waste from reaching landfills and bettering the environment through green initiatives.

With an extensive line of eco-friendly trade show products, Trade Show Emporium offers trade show display alternatives to companies looking to enhance its environmentally friendly efforts. All of the green products offered through Trade Show Emporium are developed with environmentally and socially responsible materials, including bamboo, recycled plastics, aluminum and water-based inks.

One of the many issues at the heart of wastefulness in the trade show industry is the amount of displays that are ending up in landfills and dumps throughout the country. Trade Show Emporium implements two measures to help alleviate this issue.

With our dedicated trade show display recycling for old displays and accessories, Trade Show Emporium decreases the amount of retired trade show displays being thrown away, which reduces carcinogen and green house gasses. The “reincarnation exhibit recycling” program services aluminum, plastic, wood, particleboard, cardboard, fabric, metal, nylon, laminate and carpet. Items are broken down into their rawest forms and reused to make other eco-friendly products.

Landfill waste is also reduced through Trade Show Emporium’s trade display rental program, an ideal substitute for companies who exhibit less often but want to maintain a strong presence at trade shows. This program helps eliminate the one-and-done approach that happens with many trade show products. Each rental can be customized with graphics, making the program ideal for companies who attend conferences infrequently.

Trade Show Emporium works closely with several organizations, including the Green Merchant Alliance and GenGreen Life, which help companies reduce its environmental impact through education and purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates.

For more information regarding the eco-friendly efforts of Trade Show Emporium visit www.tradeshowemporium.com or call 1-866-764-2968 in the United States and Canada.

DENVER — On January 20, 2009, history will be made as Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America, marking one of the most significant events in the country’s 233-year history. The incoming administration will quickly begin its work to solve many issues facing the country and the world.

Included among those challenges, is creating a nationwide standpoint on the importance of becoming more environmentally friendly and conscious. President Obama and his executive staff will employ all available efforts to promote eco-friendly awareness in aspects of business, government and personal life, which will undoubtedly be a considerable challenge for many to completely fulfill. However, it is important to understand the consequences if these objectives are not accomplished.

Trade Show Emporium, an industry leading resource for environmentally friendly trade show displays and products, understands the challenges facing our planet and is making every stride to revolutionize the trade show industry here in America.

Currently the trade show industry, as a whole, ranks second among the United States’ most waste generated industries in the, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Among the many items found in this waste are trade show displays that could have easily been kept from reaching landfills and on to recycling facilities. It is the thousands of cases like this that make it imperative for Trade Show Emporium to devote a larger portion of its resources to the environmental cause.

One measure taken by Trade Show Emporium to combat the wastefulness of the industry, is offering an extensive line of green trade show displays, products and accessories. New green trade show products contain a significant portion of materials that had been recycled, while the entire product itself is 100 percent recyclable at the conclusion of its use.

Since adding the extensive line of green trade show displays in April 2008, Trade Show Emporium has further its other eco-friendly causes to include a display recycling service, display rental program and a 3,500 kilowatt solar panel system. The Denver-based business also works closely with the Green Merchant Alliance and GenGreenLife, both Colorado companies, to purchase renewable energy certificates and educate the public about the environment, respectively.

Unfortunately the efforts of Trade Show Emporium and the Obama Administration can only extend so far. It is the hope that everyone will accept their personal responsibilities to fight climate change and encourage others to make the quality of the environment better for future generations.

For more information regarding Trade Show Emporium’s line of green trade show products and other eco-friendly efforts please visit www.tradeshowemporium.com or call 1-866-764-2968.

DENVER — At Trade Show Emporium, Denver’s premier trade show resource,  we take great pride in being a trade show supplier that wants to be at the forefront of reducing the waste that ends up in landfills. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the trade show industry is the second most wasteful industry.

There is an easy solution to this problem and this is recycling old trade show displays using Trade Show Emporium’s simple three-step process. In fact, all you have to do is collect what you want to recycle and ship it.

Here is the entire three-step process showing how simple it is to recycle your old trade show display.

The first step in the recycling process is creating a detailed list of materials to be recycled. From there an estimate for the cost of the recycling is created and the material is shipped to our facility and broken down and separated into their rawest form. The final step sends the material to designated recycling facilities.

At the conclusion of the project a detailed breakdown is produced showing how much of each raw material was recycled.

Even though there is cost associated with recycling your display, there is great benefit from knowing you played a part in bettering our environment and reducing trade show waste in our landfills.

To have your trade show display recycled or to receive an estimate contact Trade Show Emporium at 1.866.764.2968 or visit the recycling section our Web site at www.tradeshowemporium.com

Denver, CO, October 30 — Is your company searching for a more effective way to make your trade show displays more environmentally friendly?  Do you also want to maintain eye-catching dynamic color to attract your target audience? If you answered yes to these questions, Trade Show Emporium’s new fabric, made of 100 percent post-consumer recycled soda bottles, could be the product for you.

Trade Show Emporium is proud to introduce Paradise™ Fabric as the newest addition to its eco-friendly product line. Paradise™ Fabric can be used in a variety of displays including many of the lightweight and portable banner stands, in-line displays, and it can be printed in individual panels.

This quality fabric stands out among the crowd, and draws attention to your trade show display. Paradise™ Fabric gives your company yet another marketing edge with its impressive visual appeal.  Water-based inks are used to print your graphics in vivid, clean colors.

Paradise™ Fabric requires less energy and natural resources to manufacture than other green fabrics used in trade show displays today. For every square yard of fabric, 16 recycled plastic soda bottles are used. This recycled material is far more durable than other green fabrics on the market today. With a nine-ounce weight, Paradise™ Fabric is 40 percent stronger than similar fabrics, giving it the resilience to withstand the test of time.

By adding this recycled fabric to its product line-up, Trade Show Emporium is continuing its effort to offer environmentally friendly products. If Paradise™ Fabric sounds like a solution for your company, visit Trade Show Emporium’s Web site at www.tradeshowemporium.com or call 1-866-764-2968 in the United States and Canada.

Denver, CO, October 27— In a concentrated and concerned effort to increase its environmentally friendly development, Trade Show Emporium announced Thursday the installation of a solar energy system to the roof of its building, offering a sensible and environmentally responsible alternative to energy consumption for its downtown office.

The addition of a 3,500 kW solar panel system will allow Trade Show Emporium, along with accompanying companies that occupy its downtown building, to offset the current traditional energy consumption being created by the building. The proposed system, which will be installed by Adobe Solar, will be comprised of 20 175-watt solar modules and one solar inverter that will produce an estimated 4,531 kWh of electricity yearly or 377 kWh per month.

“Trade Show Emporium strongly believes in the continuing efforts to alleviate concern for the environment,” said Trade Show Emporium President, Willis Wood, Jr. “The addition of a solar energy system to our building will greatly increase our role in assisting the movement towards the use of renewable energy sources. We envision this system to deliver clean and quiet energy for many years to come.”

According to the Adobe Solar Web site, the system will operate with the 175-watt SolarWorld Modules collecting and breaking down the energy of the sun and transferring that into the solar inverter where it is collected by a SMA SunnyBoy 4000U Grid-Tied unit and converted into useful energy. Trade Show Emporium will use the bulk of this energy to power an extensive network of servers housed within the building.

The sophisticated solar energy system adds to the already eco-friendly list of current measures that Trade Show Emporium implements in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint on the environment and promote environmental awareness.

In July, Trade Show Emporium joined the Green Merchant Alliance (GMA), which is composed of businesses that promotes renewable and clean energy. Portions of Trade Show Emporium profits are taken by GMA which in turn are invested into certificates for renewable energy that fund clean energy projects. In a congruent effort, Trade Show Emporium is a leader in environmental friendly displays as well as recycling used materials.

Colorado’s Front Range receiving over 300 days of sunshine each year, according to the official Colorado tourism Web site, making it the sixth sunniest state in the nation and allowing adequate opportunities for the solar energy system to make an immediate impact on the customary energy consumption of Trade Show Emporium.

“The addition of solar energy to our building, along with our previous commitment to bettering the environment made this an easy decision for Trade Show Emporium,” Wood said. “This is just the first step in what will hopefully be several renewable energy projects that Trade Show Emporium will accomplish in the upcoming years.”

For information regarding Trade Show Emporium please visit www.tradeshowemporium.com or call 1-866-764-2968 in the United States and Canada.

Denver, CO – Going Green is the verb in business today. And the trade show industry is no exception, says Willis Wood, President of Trade Show Emporium (www.tradeshowemporium.com) headquartered in Denver, Colo.

As sustainability becomes increasingly a part of everyday business considerations, those same businesses are carrying over that practice to their trade show participation. Exhibitors are looking to incorporate environmentally conscious elements into their trade show displays to back up their company’s sustainability position and practices. To that end, trade show participants are choosing trade show displays made from  environmentally friendly materials, using environmentally friendly inks on printed pieces, recycling badge holders, and other innovations considered green by today’s eco-sensitive best practices.

Trade Show Emporium is assisting in the greening of trade show displays, helping exhibitors go green.  Trade Show Emporium now offers green trade show displays with environmentally friendly fabrication, including:

•    materials are derived from recycled content and reduce natural resource dependency
•    low volatile organic compound (VOC) emission adhesives, stains, and finishes versus petroleum based     options that pollute the air
•    use rapidly renewable materials like fast-growing bamboo over finite alternatives that take years longer to reproduce.

Trade Show Emporium’s goal is to help spare the environment and improve business practices, explains Wood. He spends a great deal of his time introducing green options to trade show exhibitors showing them how these new products employ sustainable materials in the design and production of exhibits and display products.

Even more revolutionary than simply offering green product for sale, Trade Show Emporium is offering Exhibit Recycling.  “The event and trade show industry is the second largest producer of solid waste in the United States,” Wood says quoting recently released industry figures. “Events like trade shows start and finish with construction and demolition. We’re on board to see that those two processes—set up and tear down—are managed in the most responsible green ways possible.”

Called “Reincarnation Exhibit Recycling,” this service offered by Trade Show Emporium is designed to reduce the volume of retired exhibit materials reaching landfills, thus eliminating the release of carcinogen and green house gasses. This service features the up- and down-cycling of nearly every exhibit material including: Aluminum, Plastic, Wood, Particle Board, Cardboard, Fabric, Metal, Nylon, Laminate, Carpet… and more.

Ship Trade Show Emporium your old, anything-but-green trade show display to ensure that you are helping the environment by recycling it instead of having wind up in a land fill.

Trade Show Emporium’s green line of trade show products offer a unique opportunity for your company to express your sustainability commitment in full view of your clients and prospects, Wood adds.

To find out more about the environmentally friendly trade show displays that Trade Show Emporium offers or the Reincarnation Exhibit Recycling Program please visit the green section of the company website at: http://www.tradeshowemporium.com/green-products.html.