All digitally available FOSTA reports (> 100) are available in full text for StahlDat SX Professional users. The task of FOSTA is the promotion and projecting of application technology research and development on an immediate non-profit basis. Research partners of FOSTA are research institutes, universities, engineering offices and steel processing companies. Research priorities are:

• Vehicle construction, forming technology, joining technology
• Steel construction, bridge construction, composite construction, lightweight construction
• Environmental protection, composite structures
• Apparatus and container construction