We provide fully integrated, innovative and strategic design solutions. Our services include everything from concept development and tool design to manufacturing, testing and certification.
Sonaca has extensive expertise in the development, certification, testing, manufacturing and assembly of wing movables such as slats, flaps, ailerons and spoilers, including their mechanisms, wing ice protection systems and fairings. Our experience enables us to develop advanced technologies both metallic and composite to provide high-quality, efficient and reliable integrated structures. Sonaca is able to adapt our solution to any kind of aircraft and any rate.
Sonaca offers a very wide panel of solutions adapted to all OEMs needs. We develop fully integrated metallic & composite leading-edges solutions. Sonaca designs, manufactures and assembles fully integrated components including slat track mechanisms and ice protection systems, both pneumatic & electric. We provide direct plug and fly solutions to our customer, including final finition and polishing.
Sonaca successfully extents its broad expertise in control surfaces with reliable industrial & responsive solutions for the flaps, flaps fairings and mechanisms. Thanks to the latest technologies developed by Sonaca such as out-of-autoclave processes RTM, SQRTM and automatic processes ATL, assembly and control, Sonaca offers best global price and reduction of aircraft fuel burn.
In the focus of reducing weight and costs, Sonaca is also developing SQRTM processes for CFRP composite ailerons. Their design lead to an improvement in parts quality, meaning tighter tolerances and better aerodynamic smoothness with a lure towards fuel consumption reduction. Our engineers put a great effort to optimize the reparability and the maintenance of ailerons.
Reliable trailing-edge movables have become a major consideration for Sonaca. Parts quality improvement and part count reduction are something our engineers deal with every day. Our one-shot CFRP composite spoilers, combining SQRTM and ATL processes, allow closer time-to-market as well as environment durability and robustness.
Sonaca combines its engineering, certification, manufacturing and assembly capabilities to offer the most adapted solutions to flexible-scope programs in forward, center and rear fuselage sections. The group’s expertise in virtual testing offers the unique advantage of providing optimized geometries solutions to these high-loaded interfaces concerns.
Sonaca experience in fuselage structures extends to interfaces with fuselage-mounted engines. We provide highly advanced parts through topological optimization simulation runs.
Sonaca has expertise in the manufacturing of big and small elementary parts, from control surfaces to fuselage parts. Our long-term experience in aircraft structures provides a solution to these complex and highly loaded interfaces. Our well established automated production lines allow us to reach world’s largest aircrafts dimensions.
Sonaca has experience in multiple areas of door design and manufacturing: baggage doors, service doors, main landing gear doors. Using composite materials, we are able to manufacture light and robust structures, reducing aircraft fuel burn.