ShowTex services: An extensive range of skills & expert advice
We have the technology & experience to provide a variety of solutions to meet most of the challenges in set design.
ShowTex has both the technology and the experience to provide clients with a variety of solutions to meet most of the challenges in set building, stage and stand design.
Advice and design
40+ years in the business as suppliers and manufacturers with a range of in-house developed products make ShowTex a valuable partner for your next project or production. Our standard collection of flame-retardant fabrics, curtain tracks, and motion systems is just a fraction of the products we offer.
Our research and development team can assist in sourcing, custom weaving, and large or small-scale production to meet your specific needs. Our ongoing dialogue with light and set designers helps us to continuously improve our products.
Especially in the design stage of a production, our creative input has proven to be of significant added value in countless shows and events around the world. Interactions of this kind often serve as a catalyst that allows us to invent cutting-edge products like our patented seamless TrusSleeve® truss-cover and the extra-wide PepperScrim FR for large-scale 3D hologram effects.
Purpose-built venues, historical theatre renovations, eye-catching trade show stands, and dynamic television studios all need a personalised approach to soft furnishings and rigging. ShowTex provides you with the right advice from the concept phase to the end result, so your project will be successful from start to finish.
We offer event management and a variety of design support options from custom digital artwork for large-scale backdrops and curtain installations to stage venue and rigging configurations. Our design team works with the latest versions of Adobe Creative Suite, Acrobat, Vectorworks, Solidworks, AutoCAD, etc.... and is gladly at your disposal to help and advise during the design phase of your project. We adapt, enhance, and incorporate your concept into almost any fabric creation.
Manufacturing
Our expansive sewing workshops are equipped with state-of-the-art machinery and specialised equipment for any type of fabric or application. Each team of experienced sewing experts has the capabilities to meet any design challenge: from made-to-measure curtains incorporating traditional finishing techniques, basic black box drapes, giant cycloramas to bespoke scenic creations. Mobile sewing machines and seamstresses are available by request for other sewing services like repairs, alterations, and restoration of curtains and backdrops.
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Installation
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Wherever the job, however big or small, we have the right team to get it done. Our event crew can assist on-site or follow up on a project from start to finish.
From complex curtain track installations, custom programming of motion systems, fixed or temporary curtain suspension and tensioning, to building up totally unique concepts and creations, our crew are ready to assist and guarantee amazing results.
We meet every challenge with creative and reliable solutions and always get the job done on time.
Screen welding
Our wide selection of purpose-designed screen surfaces for front, rear and twin projection makes it easy to find the most appropriate projection surface that delivers optimum viewing for any given application. Our screens have a remarkably even light distribution over a wide viewing area and are available in XL, mesh, perforated, super matte, and blackout finishes.
ShowTex produces the world’s largest projection screens!
Since all ShowTex screens are custom-welded with high-quality screen surfaces, even the biggest screens appear virtually seamless. An in-house screen welding workshop produces screens measuring upwards of 500 sqm with super-strong seams of less than 1 mm that are nearly invisible.
Printing
ShowTex has an expert in-house team specialised in digital fabric printing to turn your artwork or photograph into high-quality, flexible decoration. We offer an extensive choice of extra-large printed fabrics for trade show banners, flexible billboards, tensioned drapes or totally personalised concepts.
We print high-resolution backdrops, indoor and outdoor signage, stretch fabric, theatrical scrim, vinyl dance floor, large-scale photos, trade show graphics, and screens in a variety of weights, materials, and transparencies. Ask us for our factsheet with print guidelines to help you prepare your artwork. Combine with our made-to-measure frame profiles up to almost any size to create expo stand elements or furniture, and sleek high-quality 3D structures like print cubes and curved frames for chandeliers, curved walls or bespoke designs. Additionally, we can also provide light and motion integration.
Laser cutting
ShowTex provides the latest in precision laser cutting technology. We reproduce your artwork, CAD, and vector designs with mirror image accuracy. Capable of multiple pieces with precise cuts and patterns, time after time.
Our machines can register the ends of the material being cut to be able to cut fabric of virtually infinite length with a seamless width of up to 5 m wide. The method also ensures the maximum utilisation of material with minimal waste. Choose laser-cut fabric for personalised backdrops, foliage curtains, repeat patterns, and custom design cut-outs in almost any flame-retardant fabric. Apply laser-cut blackout materials onto rear projection screens to create amazing backdrops!
LED integration
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Add ShowLED Classic, Chameleon, Animation, and Animation Mesh outdoor components to any fabric, set design, or venue decoration. ShowTex offers custom LED integration services of ShowLED components available for every imaginable fabric surface and application. When diffused with semi-transparent fabrics, the twinkling stars take on a subtle glow for a variety of soft lighting effects or to create smoother images.
Our waterproof LED’s are highly suitable for permanent outdoor applications on buildings and structures. Added to indoor and outdoor textiles, combined with digital prints and painted backdrops, or integrated into set design pieces: LED fabrics offer endless possibilities.