About
About DGI
Exhibits, events, and logistics — designed, machined, and crated in Orlando, installed wherever your show takes you.
Our Story
One roof instead of four vendors
DGI was founded in YYYY (placeholder) by a small crew of builders who were tired of watching exhibit programs get passed between a designer, a broker, a fabricator, and a labor company — with the client absorbing every miscommunication.
We put all of it under one roof in Orlando: design, engineering, CNC routing, millwork, metal fabrication, graphics, crating, and installation. Being minutes from the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) means we can be on-site fast when something changes mid-install — and it happens on every show.
Today we support first-time exhibitors with a single 10×10 and national brands running island programs across a dozen cities a year. The approach is the same either way: pre-build it right in the shop, and there's nothing to fix on the floor.
- Years in business
- XXYears in business
- Booths built
- X,XXXBooths built
- Sq ft fabricated
- XXX,XXXSq ft fabricated
- States served
- XXStates served
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The Facility
An in-house fabrication shop, not a broker's office
Our Orlando facility runs approximately XX,XXX sq ft (placeholder) of shop floor: a CNC routing cell, a wood shop for Baltic birch and MDF millwork, a metal bay for aluminum extrusion and steel welding, a finishing and paint area, a large-format graphics room, and dedicated pre-build bays where full booths are assembled and lit before crating.
Attached crated storage holds client exhibits between shows, and dock doors put completed crates on a truck the same day they pass inspection.
- Shop floor
- XX,XXX sq ft
- Pre-build bays
- X bays
- Dock doors
- X doors
- Crated storage
- X,XXX sq ft
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Capabilities
Capabilities & materials
Wood & millwork
Baltic birch and maple plywood, MDF, laminates, and veneers cut, assembled, and finished in-house.
Metal fabrication
Aluminum extrusion, welded steel framing, and powder-coated finishes for structural elements.
CNC routing
Precision-cut panels, dimensional logos, and repeatable parts across a multi-show program.
Printing & graphics
UV printing, large-format direct print, SEG tension fabric, vinyl, and dimensional signage.
LED & lighting integration
Backlit walls, edge-lit signage, wash lighting, and LED video wall framing.
Crating & logistics
Custom crates, freight booking, drayage paperwork, and crated storage between shows.
The Crew
Founder's Note
"I started DGI because too many exhibitors were paying for a booth nobody in the building had actually built. We cut, weld, finish, and pre-build every job under our own roof — so when your crate opens on the show floor, it fits. That's the whole promise."
Sean Hagen
Founder & Principal (title placeholder)
Leadership
Founder name confirmed — remaining names, titles, and bios are placeholders pending confirmation.
Sean Hagen
Founder & Principal
Runs estimating and the shop floor. Twenty years of exhibits, and still signs off on every crate.
First Last
Director of Design
Turns show goals into drawings — sightlines, traffic flow, and graphics that survive drayage.
First Last
Shop & Operations Manager
Owns CNC nesting, millwork, and pre-build. Nothing crates until it has been fully assembled here.
First Last
Project & Install Manager
Books freight, files labor calls, coordinates union crews, and supervises move-in on the floor.
XX craftspeople. One standard of work. (Placeholder headcount.)
Certifications & Union Labor
Who is allowed to build your booth
Certain convention centers — including the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) — have jurisdictions where installation, dismantle, rigging, or electrical work must be performed by local union labor. The rules vary by venue, by trade, and sometimes by booth size.
DGI coordinates local union labor as required per venue: we read each show's exhibitor services manual, order the correct labor calls before the discount deadline, and put our own supervisor on the floor to run the build against our drawings. You never have to negotiate jurisdiction in an aisle.
Certifications and insurance certificates (COI, venue-specific credentials) available on request — placeholder pending confirmation.
Sustainability
An increasingly common question
More RFPs now ask how an exhibit is sourced, reused, and disposed of. Here's how we answer it — plainly, without claiming more than a fabrication shop can deliver.
Material sourcing
FSC-certified Baltic birch and plywood where the spec allows, low-VOC adhesives and finishes, and aluminum extrusion that is fully recyclable at end of life.
Reuse & refurbishment
Structures are engineered to be re-skinned rather than rebuilt. We inventory panels, counters, and framing after each show and refurbish them — new graphics, refinished faces, updated lighting — instead of scrapping and starting over.
Waste reduction
CNC nesting to reduce sheet-goods offcuts, scrap wood diverted to crate construction, and cardboard, aluminum, and steel separated for recycling out of the shop.
Ready to build your next booth?
Send us the show, the space, and the goal. A project manager follows up within 1 business day with a custom proposal.