Stratosteel Digital Expo · always on · online
The industrial fair
that never closes.
Five halls. Curated booths. Real machine floors on camera, not marketing pages. 15-minute meetings booked straight into the maker's calendar, at the time that suits you. Manufacturers on one side, OEM procurement and engineering on the other. Stratosteel verifies every booth before it opens and walks the floor before the badge says so.
Visitors free, business email only. Exhibitors curated, audited, charter-bound.
Where the expo stands today, honestly
Founding applications open. Audits run as applications arrive.
Catalog opens to approved visitors. Booths publish as they pass audit.
First live expo day. Live floors from all five halls.
FaXtory Live week. One sector per day, floors live all week.
How it works
Two sides. Three steps each.
Buyers find verified plants. Manufacturers get qualified meetings. The meeting is the product. Nothing else is for sale.
For visitors: OEM procurement, sourcing, engineering
Request access
Name, company, role, work email, what you buy. Sign the charter. A person approves, within 1 business day. Free-mail addresses are not approved.
Walk the halls
Public pages show booth teasers: hall, capability class, envelope highlights, audit status. Full identity, floor video and booking open after approval.
Book 15 minutes
Straight into the maker's calendar. A browser video room, no installs. You travel when you negotiate, not when you search.
For exhibitors: foundries, forges, machine shops, weld shops, treatment plants
Apply
What you make, your envelopes, your certs, a machine-floor video link. Phone-shot is fine. Stock footage is not.
Sign the charter, place the deposit
Refundable commitment deposit. Pass the Stratosteel audit. The badge on your booth says exactly what was verified and when.
Open your booth
Verified buyers book into your calendar. Founding cohort exhibits free. Your leads stay yours.
The fairground
Five halls. By capability, not by sector.
A hall is a capability class. A booth is a real plant you verify with your own eyes before you book a meeting.
Casting
Steel, ductile and grey iron, manganese and wear alloys. Foundries that pour what they claim.
Forging
Open-die and closed-die forges, ring rolling, special metallurgy.
Machining
Heavy machining and 5-axis precision shops. CMM-documented.
Weldments and Structures
Certified structural weld shops. High-strength steels, machined after welding.
Surface and Heat Treatment
Heat treatment, galvanizing, coating, blasting and painting lines.
What a booth actually shows
Real floors. Real machines. Real paper.
These frames are the standard a booth video has to meet: the pour, the machine running, the measuring room. Shot on real floors in the Stratosteel network, shown here as the bar, not as a promise.
FaXtory Live · 16 to 20 November 2026
One week a year, the floors go live.
FaXtory Live is the live event week inside the expo. One sector per day, Mining to Heavy Equipment. Verified suppliers carry a phone across their real shop floor while you ask the questions. The catalog and booking stay open all year. The live week is when the whole sector shows up at once.
The SDE Charter
Not for everyone. That is the point.
Entry requires the charter, both sides. Four rules, no fine print.
Real capacity only
No bait pricing, no ghosting. Every meeting booked is held or rescheduled within 48 hours.
Honest envelopes
Claim only what your floor can carry. Every claim must survive an on-site audit.
3NEXT
3 percent of every deal closed through SDE goes forward, to the next generation. Built into the deal, not a donation.
Skin in the game
Exhibitors place a refundable commitment deposit. Break the charter: it is kept and forwarded in full to the 3NEXT fund.
Founding phase · applications open
Pick your side of the aisle.
Both forms take two minutes. Both are read by a person, not a filter.