After Haarlem: Pheenix CEO follow-up, OMS first contact, SST

- Pheenix Alpha (Robert Gunnarsson, 5 Oct; Simona's reply 9 Oct): offers
  a Teams call, reference clients and a factory visit near Stockholm;
  300+ presses (vendor figure); we call once questions are concrete,
  next Europe trip planned for February 2027. CEO contact and Marsta
  address added.
- OMS (Lou Wullms, 7 Oct): first email contact, company data, contacts
  (Lou Wullms technical, Wilma Peeters accounting/logistics); open: reply
  to confirm, then OMS sends material to calculate from.
- SST Frankfurt (Daniel Krieger, 7 Oct): cut the lacquers for POY003,
  005, 006 and 013; on good terms with ResurRec; offered help. New cutting
  service entry in the supplier map and vendor landscape; corrected the
  briefing, which had SST as DMM (its site lists lacquer and dubplates).
- Roadmap items 5, 6 and 14 and the production timeline launch basis
  updated accordingly.

docs/suppliers/making-vinyl-europe-2026-exhibitors.md

@@ -49,6 +49,43 @@ traceability spec, the steam decision, the Thai PVC lead, the 50/50 fleet).
   - He also sees Alexander's background in electronics and solar as well
     placed to judge what the electronic reporting on daily production
     needs: the data side again.
+- **Pheenix Alpha follow-up** (Robert Gunnarsson, CEO, to Simona and
+  Alexander, email 5 October 2026; Simona replied on 9 October with
+  Niklas Poblenz copied):
+  - Pheenix has helped many plants start production or add capacity and
+    counts more than 300 presses worldwide (vendor figure). Its team
+    supports automatic and manual presses and electroforming, which
+    matches the single-vendor path in [roadmap](../roadmap.md) items 5
+    and 6.
+  - He proposed a Teams meeting, invited us to the factory near Stockholm
+    to see the presses demonstrated, and offered to put us in touch with
+    reference clients.
+  - Simona's reply: no visit fitted this trip; we plan to be back in
+    Europe in **February 2027** and will set up a call once our questions
+    and plans are concrete, in the coming weeks. No datasheet or quote
+    yet. Ask for the reference clients with the call (Deepgrooves first,
+    for biomass steam).
+- **OMS first contact** (Lou Wullms to Alexander, email in German,
+  7 October 2026): he asks Alexander to confirm he received it, then will
+  send material so that we can start calculating and see what the
+  galvanics side involves, and asks whether Simona will work on the
+  project too. Contacts: Lou Wullms for technical matters, Wilma Peeters
+  for accounting and logistics. **Open: reply to confirm.** Details in
+  [galvanics and stamper prep](../equipment/galvanics.md#a-third-candidate-optical-media-services-oms).
+- **SST** (Daniel Krieger, Schallplatten Schneid Technik, Frankfurt, to
+  Simona and Alexander, email 7 October 2026):
+  - SST's archive shows it cut the lacquers for Poy Records POY003, 005,
+    006 and 013, so it is already a Poy supplier.
+  - He praised the pressing quality of *Chiang Mai Sound vol. 1* and
+    *Fabulous Forever* and asked whether they are ResurRec pressings
+    (answer from Poy's records).
+  - SST is on good terms with Sarit of ResurRec and his mastering
+    partner Chalotorn, so it knows the incumbent
+    ([revenue model](../finance/revenue-model.md)).
+  - He offered to help with the plant. A cutting-side contact: a lacquer
+    source for the launch phase and cutting-room know-how for
+    [roadmap](../roadmap.md) item 27, not buyer validation
+    ([vendor landscape](vendor-landscape.md#lacquer-cutting-service-schallplatten-schneid-technik-germany)).
 - **Filed since**: the Newbilt flyers
   ([pressing line](../equipment/pressing-line.md)), Sibert's current VS
   specifications and line-up drawing (with the 2021 issues kept), and
@@ -349,8 +386,12 @@ splatter and short runs. Also a compact 7" centre-hole punch unit. New CEO
 Robert Gunnarsson from September 2026 with an explicit commercial focus;
 founder Niklas Poblenz stays on innovation and customer support. Sibert
 installed equipment at Pheenix in January 2025. Deepgrooves (NL, attending)
-runs AD12 presses on biomass steam. Contact in this repo:
-andreas.runsten@pheenixalpha.com.
+runs AD12 presses on biomass steam. Contacts in this repo:
+andreas.runsten@pheenixalpha.com; Robert Gunnarsson (CEO),
+robert.gunnarsson@pheenixalpha.com, +46 8 598 933 00; Niklas Poblenz,
+niklas.poblenz@pheenixalpha.com. The CEO's signature gives Pheenix Alpha
+AB, Skepptuna Borgen 299, 195 93 Märsta (north of Stockholm), the same
+address as the flyers.
 
 **On file** (filed with the Making Vinyl material, October 2026): four
 electroforming flyers from 2024 (PASU silvering, PPPU pre-plating, PDPU
@@ -508,8 +549,9 @@ Newbilt quote exists for this reason.
 - **Record Industry** (Haarlem host plant), **GZ Media**, **Pozzoli**,
   **Takt**, **optimal media**: large-plant operators; one question each on
   what they would build differently today.
-- **Schallplatten Schneid Technik** (SST, Germany): DMM cutting
-  technology, the alternative to lacquer.
+- **Schallplatten Schneid Technik** (SST, Frankfurt): lacquer cutting
+  studio (first noted here as DMM cutting; SST's own site lists lacquers
+  and dubplates only). Met at the show, see [After the show](#after-the-show).
 - **POYSOUND Co., Ltd.** and **TOYO RECORDING**: Asian attendees worth
   identifying (POYSOUND may be Thai; unverified).