STAINLESS 2025 - specialized industrial meeting for the CEE region
April 3, 2025 / 4:42 PM
After two years, Brno has once again become the centre of the trade in stainless steel. The international STAINLESS 2025 trade fair is one of the few events of its kind in Europe and has confirmed its prestige as a key business platform for experts, traders and innovators in this highly specialised industrial segment.
This year's edition was attended by over 100 exhibitors from 20 countries, with the share of foreign exhibitors reaching 86 percent. Germany had the largest representation, followed by India, the Czech Republic, Italy, China, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia. Exhibitors engaged with trade visitors from Europe and Asia. In total, more than a thousand specialists came to Brno, including about half of them from abroad. The STAINLESS fair is thus the most international event held at the Brno Exhibition Centre in terms of exhibitors and registered visitors.
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Presentation of technological developments and new services
The fair once again offered an exceptional opportunity for business networking and professional discussion about trends in the field of stainless steels. Key topics included innovations in production processes, the expansion of the product range and processing services, environmental aspects of stainless steel processing, and the optimization of supply chains.
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Exhibitors presented the latest technologies, materials and solutions. Both established companies and new exhibitors came to Brno – amongst them Baopu Metal Material, DK Jones, Ratnadeep Metal And Tubes Limited, Scoda Tubes and Venus Pipes and Tubes. Suppliers of stainless steels and metallurgical products traditionally held the largest representation. An essential aspect of the offer included presentations from companies that supply machinery and equipment for the treatment and processing of these materials.
The social dimension of the fair was underlined by the successful STAINLESS PARTY with a musical programme.
ECHOES
Robert Nečas, Managing Director, STAPPERT Česká republika spol. s r. o.
We exhibit here every two years. As distributors of stainless steel for the Czech market, we meet our partners here, both in purchasing and sales activities. We use this opportunity to invite our customers here.
Tomáš Václavík, Sales Rep, Aperam Stainless Services & Solutions CZ s. r. o.
We participate in STAINLESS to show our leading position on the global market. The advantage of this year's expo is also the fact that its dates do not clash with the similar trade show in Milan. Although the attendance has not reached the level of previous editions, participation still makes sense for us. Regular presentation at the Brno fair is an opportunity to meet both clients and our international colleagues from production plants in Belgium, Poland and Luxembourg.
Ondřej Karpaš, Marketing, CS STEEL a. s.
We have been traditional exhibitors at STAINLESS, but this year we have put more emphasis on it also because it is our 15th anniversary. The market situation is not picture perfect at the moment, so the opportunity to make ourselves known and win new orders is more important than ever.
Janet Albanese, Sales Manager, Cogne Acciai Speciali, Italy
We met a lot of new and existing customers here and I think our participation was successful. We are satisfied with the organisation of the expo and we really enjoyed the party yesterday. I really have to appreciate it, so we are planning to come back again next time.
Ernst an der Velde, Account Manager – Export, Dacapo Stainless BV, The Netherlands
Our participation in this trade show is especially important for our business. We have a good feeling about it, the first day was really busy, which was excellent.
Filippo Labo, Marketing Manager - IT, SCODA Tubes Limited, India
This is the third time we have exhibited in Brno and we have a good feeling about this year, we had some nice meetings yesterday and we made some good contacts. The Brno fair is professionally organised and it is important for us to be here, it is a great window to the Eastern European market.
Dennis Bröcker, Head of Department, BINDER EDELSTAHL, Germany
This trade show is always important for us because we can meet people here in a relaxed atmosphere with whom we are in daily business contact. We will attend again next time.
Bas Arendse, Account Manager, Roba Metals B. V., The Netherlands
For us this fair is really good, it is our entry to the Eastern European market. Every time we find something here that makes us come back again two years on.
Aadil Chadha, Director (Operations), JYOTI Steel Industries, India
STAINLESS was a great opportunity to meet new customers from Eastern Europe. We are overly optimistic about the market conditions. Although there is a trade war going on, we feel that Indian manufacturers have a huge scope to make a mark in the European Union. And we look forward to participating again two years on.
Shriya Pandita, Dy.Manger-Sales & Marketing, ASR MET TECH PRIVATE LIMITED, India
It is great to meet new business partners and find new business opportunities here. The organisers of the expo were immensely helpful and I appreciate how well they have prepared everything.
Marcel Mol, Sales Export, PAUL MEIJERING, The Netherlands
STAINLESS is a good trade show for our business. I meet a lot of new customers here, as well as some business partners I already know. The fair is well organised and we enjoyed the party.
Rosana Zhang, Sales, Jiangsu Chengyang Daming Stainless Steel Co. Ltd., China
We like this expo very much. The party was really great and the business is good.
Vladimír Ďurica, Branch Manager, ITALINOX s.r.o.
As a company we praise this expo as a success. We met with many suppliers, of course we will evaluate our participation in the following days.
Matt Jones, Sales Director, DK Jones Ltd, UK
The Brno trade fair offers very competitive pricing, logistics, it is no problem to participate. To get to Brno from the UK to Brno was quite straightforward and the cooperation with the trade fair organising team was wonderful. We had a really good experience. We had a lot of visitors on Wednesday morning, we had several meetings and met with both our existing customers and new potential partners.
