Carquefou, 2011, August 29,

SONATS' team will be pleased to welcome you at the 11th edition of the International Conference on Shot Peening ICSP11, which will be held September 12-15, 2011, in South Bend, Indiana, USA.

SONATS runs a booth, so you would have the opportunity to discover our solutions, and to exchange with both sales and technical expert about your applications.

Moreover, SONATS' Technical Expert, Mr Frederic Chateau, will present a paper about Ultrasonic Needle Peening (also called Ultrasonic Impact Treatment).

See you soon at South Bend!

Carquefou, 2011, May 10

SONATS will exhibit at the ASME TURBO EXPO 2011 Gas Turbine Technical Congress & Exposition, the world's premier gathering of gas turbine professionals, taking place at Vancouver from June 6th to 10th.

SONATS will welcome you at the booth number 439.

We will introduce our innovative Ultrasonic Shot Peening solutions for improving gas turbine's components fatigue life time, using clean and efficient surface mechanical surface treatment.

Our handy and portable STRESSVOYAGER® equipment will be on-site for demonstration.

We are looking forward to meeting you at the Turbo Expo 2010, booth 439!

Contact us for asking us an access pass for the expo, and for organizing a face-to-face meeting during the event.

Carquefou, 2011, April the 27th

We will be happy to meet you on our booth HALL 4 for the premier and largest worldwide event dedicated to the aviation and space industry for a century - From 20 to 26 JUNE 2011 PARIS (LE BOURGET)

Come discover our services and technologies:

• Ultrasonic impact surface treatment of metallic components.        
• Ultrasonic Shot Peening,
• Ultrasonic straightening and forming,
• Ultrasonic Impact post-weld treatments.
• Material (Residual stress analysis) and Process expertise.

Nantes, 2010  May 31

SONATS will exhibit at the Normandy Motor Meetings, the world's premier gathering of motor and propulsion system professionals, from 9th to 10th of February 2011, at Rouen, France.

SONATS's sales team will be glad to receive your visit and to introduce our innovative product and solutions for Shot Peening Treatment, and our large range of peening accessories.

For more information about the event, visit : www.n2m-moveo.com

For organize a meeting, please contact Melle Gwennan Saout, International Sales, by email or by phone: 33 240 529 938.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Carquefou, 2010, Dec the 9th

The National Industrial Property Institute (INPI) has awarded SONATS by the 2010 Innovation Trophy Pays de la Loire.

Since the inception of our company, SONATS has always considered Innovation as a main axis of our Strategical Development. This Award recognizes all of our efforts and achievements, and encourages us to pursue our Innovation strategy.

Our President, Mr Patrick CHEPPE explains the importance of a strong Industrial Property strategy:

« Stressonic® is an ultrasonic shot peening method which intends to enhance the fatigue life of critical metallic parts by delaying the cracking phenomenon. Since its invention, we developed two more applications based on the same Stressonic® process: the straightening of aero-structure metal sheet and the enhancing of welded components. This technology is attracting leading edge industries : aerospace, power generation, automotive, heavy industry...Today, the Stressonic® process is a patented, proven and mature technology which is recognized worldwide. However, we need to defend our added value while our technology is appealing major industrial players. Hence, intellectual property is today a critical asset.»

Nantes, 2010 November 24th,

SONATS' range of peening accessories keeps enlarging with the integration of Shockform's (Canada) innovative equipments: the FlapSpeed™ Controller and the InspectView™.

Indeed, Shockform recently selected SONATS as the European Distributor of its innovative shot peening accessories. The FlapSpeed™ Controller is a rotational speed controller for flap peening (or flapper peening) which continuously monitors and adjusts the RPM for more reliable and repeatable peening process. The InspectView™ is a portable visual inspection camera that provides unparalleled accessibility for hard to reach areas.

Learn more about the FlapSpeed™ Controller and InspectView™.  

Ask for a quotation

Carquefou, 2010 November 25,

SONATS and Electronics Inc. (EI) have recently signed an agreement which authorizes SONATS to perform Roto-Flapper peening training under EI's FAA accreditation.

EI has developed an extensive curriculum of high quality training materials for the shot peening processes and this material is used worlwide in workshops and on-site training, thanks to the FAA accreditation.

SONATS Instructors are offering bilingual (French, English) on-site training services, based on EI material, in France, and in Europe.

Each training session will include exams and students will be issued "Certificate of Achievement" for each exam with a passing score.

Initial Flapper peening as well as regular training for your staff is very crucial to maintain a high level of quality and control of this special process.

SONATS is also a registered Training Office for Ultrasonic Peening. Our instructors provide an on-site worldwide service, to production and maintenance staff on request.

If you are interested of such services, please do not hesitate to contact us

Carquefou, 2010 November 12

Our Technical Director, Mr Vincent Desfontaines, will attend to the Institut de Soudure seminar "Methods to improve the fatigue behavior of welded structures (Steel, Aluminum)", 2010 November 25 at Villepinte (France).

SONATS in collaboration with Institut de Soudure Expert team will present the results of our studies about the efficiency of the Ultrasonic Peening of S355 welded structures.

Mr Desfontaine will be pleased to meet with you at Villepinte, if you wish to attend to the seminar, and to examine your potential applications.

Nantes, 2010 October 10

TOYO SEIKO (Japan) has elected SONATS as the Exclusive European Distributor of its innovative CoverageChecker™, an electronic portable Shot Peening Coverage controller.

We are pleased to enlarge our range of peening accessories with the innovative CoverageChecker™ equipment set to offer complementary solutions for peening treatments and meet our customers' requirements.

Intensity and Coverage rate are crucial for the quality and effective results of Shot Peening treatments. Reliable quality controls are required after peening treatments. The CoverageChecker™ has been designed to offer an automatic and repeatable evaluation of the coverage, tru the acquisition of a high-quality digital camera image and a specialized algorithm based on a prior visual inspection.

Learn more about the Coverage Checker™

Ask for a quotation

March 12, 2010: MFN (Metal Finishing News) Journal is publishing this month a detailed interview about SONATS technology and solutions entitled "Improve The Fatigue Life Of Your Critical Metal Components By Using Only a Few Grams Of High Quality Beads!".

The direct link to MFN website is as following:

http://www.mfn.li/article/?id=823

MFN Journal is most likely the world's only publication entirely focusing on peening, blasting, cleaning and vibratory finishing, and has a circulation of over 5300 issues and is distributed in 67 countries.

2009, December the 24th,

All the team of SONATS, and of EUROPE Technologies Group,

wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

Let's 2010 be a year of innovation and success!