Stratosteel Digital Expo · always on · online
The industrial fair,
without the travel.
Halls, booths and meetings, the fair format you already know. Foundries, forges and machine shops on one side. OEM buyers, procurement and engineers on the other. Not one day a year. The catalog and meeting booking stay open all year, at the time that suits you. The catalog opens to registered visitors in September 2026, the first live expo day follows on Thursday 22 October 2026. Real machine floors on camera, 15-minute meetings with the right people.
Visitors free, forever. Exhibitors curated and approved by Stratosteel.
How it works
Two sides. Three steps each.
Searchers will find verified plants. Exhibitors will get qualified leads. The meeting is the product. Here is how edition 1 works.
For visitors: buyers, procurement, engineers
Register free
Name, company, role, work email, what you buy. We approve manually, usually within one business day.
Catalog opens in September
Five halls. Every booth will show a real machine-floor video, part gallery, envelopes and certs. No marketing pages.
Book 15-minute meetings
When booking opens in September you pick slots straight from each booth's calendar. Before expo day you get a list of 10 booths that match what you buy.
For exhibitors: foundries, forges, machine shops, weld shops, surface treatment
Apply
What you make, your envelopes, your certs and a link to a video from your real machine floor. Phone-shot is fine.
Pass the quality gate
Stratosteel reviews and approves every booth. Real plants only. The gate is what keeps visitor quality high.
Take meetings, get leads
Verified buyers will book into your calendar. Before expo day you get a list of 10 buyers who match what you make.
The fairground
Five halls. Real booths.
Same mental model as a physical fair. A hall is a category, a booth is a plant you will verify with your own eyes before you book a meeting. Booths go live with the catalog in September 2026.
Casting
Steel, iron and manganese steel foundries.
Forging
Open-die and closed-die forges.
Machining
Heavy machining and 5-axis precision shops.
Weldments
Certified structural weld shops.
Surface treatment
Heat treatment, coating, finishing plants.
What every booth will contain
Company card
Who they are, where, how many people, since when, who you talk to.
3-min floor video
Real machines, real shop floor, shot on a phone. No stock footage, no renders.
Part gallery
5 to 12 photos of real parts made on that floor.
Capability sheet
PDF with envelopes, tonnage, materials, machine list, certifications.
Meeting slots
A calendar of 15-minute video meetings you will book in one click.
First edition
Thursday Always on. Online. First live day 22 October 2026.
09:00 to 17:00 CET. Opening keynote at 09:00, 15 minutes, no longer. Live machine-floor streams from each hall in the morning. Meetings all day, overflow slots on the following business days. The catalog opens to registered visitors in September 2026 and stays open after expo day.
Why this exists
We skipped CastForge 2026. On purpose.
No booth in Stuttgart, no travel, no hotel. Those days went to our families. The people we wanted to meet were the point of the fair, not the hall. So we built the fair the way it should work: online and always open: real machine floors on camera, 15-minute meetings with the right people, booked at the time that suits you. You travel when you negotiate, not when you search. Everyone keeps the evenings.
Stratosteel hosts and curates the expo. We are also a manufacturer, and we say that openly: if a buyer need has no matching booth, the Stratosteel network gets the first call. Exhibitors keep their own leads, their own meetings, their own follow-up. Stratosteel does not see exhibitor-visitor meeting content.
Straight answers
Questions before you register.
Is it free for visitors?
Who can exhibit?
How do meetings work?
Why is the catalog not public?
Different question? Write to expo@stratosteel.com and a person answers, not an autoresponder.