Frequently asked questions about Expometals.net

Expometals.net is a B2B platform dedicated to metalworking, in particular wire, cable, tubes, fasteners, and springs. It brings together a permanent online trade fair, company profiles, products, an online magazine with news, events, and technical content, to help professionals and companies get to know suppliers, technologies, and developments in the sector.

An online trade fair is a digital space that can be visited all year round, where companies present their expertise, products, and technologies. On Expometals.net, exhibitors are organized into halls and sub-halls, with company pages (the “online stands”) that can be found through search engines and through the site’s own navigation.

For people working in the sector, it is a way to discover new companies and technologies, find them by category and contact them directly, and stay up to date with the state of the art through news, events, and technical content. For companies, it is a way to reach an international industrial audience and be found by buyers who are searching for a product, a technology, or a supplier. It is aimed at manufacturers, users, buyers, technicians, distributors, associations, and professionals across the metals supply chain.

Expometals.net was founded in Lecco in 2001 by Davide Dell’Oro, a former machine designer, as a grassroots project. It is published by Expometals Srl and is a registered, independent news publication: it does not belong to any association or company in the sector. It is open to collaboration with trade fairs, associations, and magazines.

No. Expometals.net is not a marketplace and does not sell the products shown in the online stands: it is an informational and promotional B2B portal that connects supply and demand through profiles, content, and contact tools. Prices, specifications, availability, certifications, orders, payments, warranties, and supply conditions are agreed directly with the company that presents the product or service.

Yes. The pages of the online fair, companies, products, and the magazine can be browsed freely, even without registration. Some features require registration, which is always free. Companies that want to exhibit can choose between a free basic profile and paid plans: all the details are on the Services for exhibitors page.

The online trade fair is divided into twelve halls: Machines, Plants, Control, Equipment, Tools, Lubricants, Semi-finished products, Finished products, Logistics, Services, Magazines, and Associations. At the core are wire, cable, ropes, tubes, springs, fasteners, sheet metal, and flat and long products, together with the machines, tools, and services needed to produce and process them.

In the Semi-finished products hall you will find the Metal wire and Wire rod categories. For machines, go to Wire drawing machines; for wire drawing lubricants, see Drawing lubricants under Lubricants.

For products, go to Finished products, categories Electrical wires and optical fibers and Ropes; for insulation materials, go to Electric cable insulation in Semi-finished products. Machines are in Machines for electric cables and optical fibers and Rope-making machines.

Tube manufacturers are in the Semi-finished products hall, category Tubes and pipes. Tube production, welding, extrusion, cutting, and processing lines are in Tube machinery; dedicated tools are in Tools for tubes. The company pages let you tell producers, plant builders, and service providers apart.

Companies that make springs are in the Finished products hall, category Springs. For machines, go to Spring making machines.

In the Finished products hall you will find the Fasteners category, with suppliers of screws, bolts, nuts, washers, and special components; the machines to make them are in Screws and bolts making machines.

The Associations and Magazines halls gather the associations for wire, tubes, fasteners, cables, ropes, springs, and sheet metal, as well as the specialist magazines.

You can start from the halls of the online fair or from the Search bar at the top of the site. Choose the category closest to your need, open the companies’ stands, and check the description, location, product pages, news, and contact details. Use the arrows on the left and right of each stand to browse other online stands. You can also use the new AI Search feature. Then contact the most relevant companies with a clear request (see Contacts, requests, and quotes).

Visit the Machines and Plants halls, then explore the subcategories for the process you are interested in. Check the manufacturers’ and products’ pages and contact them for technical details.

Yes. Type the name of the company or brand in the Search bar, at the top of every page of the site. If the trade name differs from the legal name, also try part of the name, the brand, or a technology associated with the company. You can also use AI Search (beta).

Write to the team from the Contacts page, saying what you need (product, material, process). The editorial team knows the companies on the portal and can help you find your way around.

Expometals.net can help you build a first list of relevant companies, but it does not give scores or name the best supplier. We suggest comparing declared expertise, range, experience, certifications, support, and location. Choose the companies that are truly relevant and describe your need to all of them using the same criteria (material, quantity, standards, lead times): this way the answers can be compared. Generic requests sent in bulk rarely get useful replies and may be treated as irrelevant.

No. A company’s presence on the portal is not a substitute for a technical, financial, or legal qualification of the supplier. Certifications, references, and contractual terms must be checked directly with the company.

Open the company’s online stand and use the request tools available on the page. Describe precisely what you are looking for and give a verifiable company contact.

Requests sent from the stands go first through the Expometals.net editorial team, which acts as a first filter: it checks that they are relevant and prevents companies from receiving irrelevant requests or spam. Once a request has been validated, it is sent by email to the address the company itself has provided for this purpose. Forwarding is free for the person sending the request, and Expometals.net receives no commission on negotiations: it is a service included for the companies on the portal. The request is then handled by the company, which replies according to its own procedures and availability.

Identify the relevant companies and send your request through the channels indicated in their stands. An effective request specifies the product or process, application, material, geometry or drawing, dimensions, tolerances, quantity, standards, certifications, treatments, tests, country of delivery, and timing. If you are looking for a machine, describe input, output, speed, productivity, integration, available utilities, and plant constraints.

No. The negotiation takes place directly between buyer and supplier: Expometals.net does not set prices, deliveries, warranties, or contracts with the companies on the portal.

Write to the Expometals.net team from the Contacts page, indicating the URL and the data to check. Information can change over time and some of it is provided directly by exhibitors: a specific report speeds up the check.

Because it makes your company visible and recognizable, continuously, to a technical audience in the sector: more than 70% of traffic comes from searches, that is, from people who are looking for a product, a technology, or a supplier. Your stand is a set of permanent pages, in several languages, and your news also reaches the weekly newsletter (50,000 addresses) and social media. It is a stable presence in the place where the sector looks for suppliers.

They are useful, complementary tools: Expometals.net does not replace them, it works alongside them, as an additional amplifier for your activities. On your website and social channels you mostly talk to people who already know you and follow you; on Expometals.net your stand is a permanent page, organized by category, that appears in the searches of people who are evaluating suppliers and may not know you yet. Your news is also relaunched on our social channels, and the editorial team does the operational work: you do not have to manage one more channel.

They are complementary tools. A physical fair lasts a few days, while Expometals.net is open all year: before the fair you can announce your presence and the new products you will bring, during it you can relaunch them, and afterwards you keep being found by people who could not be there or who want to know more. The sector’s events are collected in the Events section.

First register as a user, then create the company profile with the guided procedure. You can start with a free basic profile or activate an online stand with the Regular or Premium plans, described in Services for exhibitors.

The Free plan offers a company profile with a short presentation in English (up to 180 characters), in a single hall, without a logo, listed alphabetically after the paying exhibitors, and with the company name only. The Regular plan (Business Pack) is the complete online stand in English: presentation with no text limit, logo, video, product range (with up to four product pages included), three news items a year distributed in the newsletter and on social media, a rotating showcase on the homepage and in the halls, fixed placement, and presence in all appropriate categories; more languages can be added. The Premium plan is customized and covers up to eight languages. Paid plans are annual and, unless otherwise agreed, renew automatically.

The basic profile is free. Taking part with an online stand is annual; the most popular package, the Regular/Business Pack plan, costs €1,999 a year, and packages can be customized. After a no-obligation demo and information call, we usually propose one or more solutions tailored to your needs, goals, and budget. We also have a media kit with all current prices, updated every year, which we can send you on request. The main details are on the Services for exhibitors page.

Yes. You can upgrade during the year and add other services, for example more languages, product pages, news items, banners, or dedicated mailings. Contact your tutor or the team to agree on the solution.

In some cases, yes, for example a banner or a dedicated newsletter mailing. For those without an annual plan, these services carry a 15% surcharge over the list price (list prices are in our media kit, available on request). Write from the Contacts page to check what is available.

A tutor from the Expometals.net editorial team writes the texts, manages the translations, and uploads the content based on your instructions. The stand goes online only after your final approval. The categories you appear in are also chosen by the editorial team together with you: if your range requires it, more categories can be added.

Not independently. Product pages, with images, PDFs, and videos, are written and updated by the editorial team from the material you send us. We do this by choice: the texts are original and optimized for search engines, without duplicating those already on your website or elsewhere, and changes to pages already indexed by Google must be handled carefully. To add or change a product page, contact your tutor.

You can prepare your news and send it to the editorial team, which checks it against editorial standards. You can also publish it yourself by logging in with your company profile: it stays visible in your stand. News sent to the editorial team is translated into the languages of your plan and placed on the News page; to be featured across the network (including newsletter and social media), it must fall within the limit set by the annual plan. In the most popular plan, the Business Pack, up to three news items are included. More can be activated on request. You can check the newsletter calendar in our 2027 editorial plan (January to August).

Yes. More than 70% of Expometals.net’s traffic is organic: it comes from people searching on Google, and increasingly on AI-based search tools, for a product, a technology, or a supplier, and the portal has good visibility and authority on these tools as well. Your stand is a set of indexed pages, with texts written by our editorial team and optimized for search engines. Languages make the difference: with the translated versions, your stand can also appear in searches made in the customer’s language (for example German, Spanish, or Turkish), where a company website, perhaps only in English, often does not reach.

They are industry professionals, mostly arriving from search engines while looking for a product, a technology, or a supplier: it is not a general-interest portal, and people who come in usually know what they are looking for. In 2025 visitors came from 196 countries: 55.8% from Europe (of which 25.7% from Italy), 25.4% from the Americas, 15.9% from Asia (Türkiye included), and 2.9% from Africa and Oceania. The top ten countries were Italy, the United States, India, Germany, Mexico, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Türkiye. Among users registered in the last three years, the leading sectors are metal products (27.1%), metalworking (18.4%), and mechanical engineering (14.8%), followed by building and construction (7.9%) and automotive and components (7.2%).

Nobody can promise a number of inquiries. Inquiries are possible and welcome, but they are not the main purpose of being here: Expometals.net mainly serves to make your company visible and recognizable to an international technical audience, and inquiries are a possible consequence of greater visibility, not the promise of the service. Visibility depends on a complete and up-to-date stand, presence in all relevant categories, the news published, and its distribution in the newsletter and on social media. Banners and dedicated mailings to 50,000 contacts, also by category, can be added to this.

Log in to the My Company reserved area, after the editorial team has linked your user to your online stand. The report shows general figures (visitors and where they come from, stand views, newsletter readership…). The Lead Manager section, still experimental, flags the registered users who enter your stand, in compliance with privacy rules, but currently monitors less than 2% of traffic: it does not tell you who visits the stand as a whole.

Very little. On average two hours a year, because the operational work is done by the editorial team’s tutor. You do not necessarily need an in-house marketing team. If you already have a person or team dedicated to it, the service adapts to your communication needs and the tools you already use: the tutor works with them, not instead of them.

The Free and Regular plans are in English (with the Regular plan you can add other languages); Premium goes up to eight: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Turkish.

Payment is in advance, by bank transfer: the editorial team works on your stand (texts, translations, images) before it goes online, and advance payment lets us avoid working for nothing. The twelve months of visibility, however, only start when the stand goes online after your approval, so you pay for the period you actually get the service. The Regular plan usually renews automatically at expiry; to cancel, just send an email at least two weeks before. For the same reason, a paid stand has no trial period; those who want to start at no cost can create the free basic profile.

In the online magazine, which collects updates from the portal and from companies on technologies, investments, trade fairs, markets, and industrial developments. Open individual news items and follow the links to the companies involved. News also arrives in the weekly newsletter.

Register and tick the “Receive updates” box: you will receive the weekly newsletter with the portal’s news.

News can originate in several ways: the company publishes it itself from its profile (and it stays in its online stand), sends it to us already written, sends us an idea and the editorial team develops it into a news item, or we contact the company because we noticed something new or to ask whether it has anything newsworthy. To enter the Expometals.net network (News page, newsletter, and social media), news must go through the editorial team, which checks it against editorial standards and attributes to the company the data that the company itself declares.

In the Events section, which collects metalworking-related events. Each listing may include dates, location, organizer, and other available information. Before planning a trip or registration, always check for changes on the organizer’s official website.

Metal working basics is a collection of introductory content on materials, processes, and technologies in metalworking, designed as a starting point for getting to know the terms and processes. It does not replace technical standards and manufacturer manuals.

It is a good starting point for identifying companies, categories, technologies, events, and topics to explore further, but it does not represent the entire market.

You can share the link to the page and quote short passages, clearly indicating the source, in compliance with the terms of use and applicable law. To reproduce texts, images, or protected materials in full, request authorization from the team.

No. The pages of the online fair and of the exhibitors can be browsed without registration. Registering is needed for advanced features and reserved areas; for companies, it is the first step to creating their profile. The benefits for visitors are described in Services for visitors.

How data is processed is described in the Expometals.net privacy notice, where you will also find the rights you can exercise. Avoid including unnecessary personal data or confidential information in your requests.

The platform is available in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, and Chinese. English is always present: if a page or content is not translated into your language, you will still find the English version. Not all exhibitors have content in all languages.

From the Contacts page you can send a request about use of the platform, accounts, services for exhibitors, content, or reports. Include the relevant URL and a clear description of the problem to make it easier to reply.

Every new product page and every news item that enters the Expometals.net network goes through the editorial team, which checks its accuracy against editorial standards.

Company pages and news present the point of view of whoever provides them. Data and claims declared by the company are attributed to the company itself. Column articles and technical content indicate the author and source.

Yes. Expometals.net is a news publication registered with the Court of Lecco (no. 3/2025); the responsible director is Davide Dell’Oro. The publisher’s details, Expometals Srl, are in the site footer.

No. Translations are done by specialists of the editorial team, who may use AI tools as support and always review the result before publication.

AI Search is the AI-powered search function, in beta, available in the top bar. As it is still being tested, its answers may occasionally be incomplete or imprecise: please check the details on the companies’ pages.