Sonaca Montreal
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Philippe Hoste
CEO
Tel: (450) 420-7670
Fax: (450) 434-5658
philippe.hoste@sonacamontreal.com
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Paul Stafiej
Director Programs and Business Development
(450) 420-7680
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Sonaca Montreal belongs to the Sonaca Group headquarted in Belgium.
The company manufactures large aerospace aluminium structures for the commercial and general aviation industry. Its clients are the most important manufactures of regional and business jets in the world: Bombardier, Embraer, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Spirit Aerosystems, Israel Aircraft Industries, Mecachrome and Heroux Devtek.
Sonaca Montreal is recognized for its technological achievements in the forming of complex wing and empennage structures using shot peening. Its technologies allow its customers to benefit in cost and weight savings compared to conventional assembled structures. The company owns one of the world’s largest computer-controlled shot peen machine, capable of saturating and pre-forming structures up to 70 feet long by 10 feet wide.
Besides, Sonaca Montreal is the only organization in the world capable of integrating all operations at a single site for the regional and business aircraft, including:
• Research and developpement
• Machining wing and empennage skins
• Non-destructive testing (NDT)
• Saturation and peen forming
• Cold and Warm press forming
• Net trim
• Automated anodize
• Painting
• Manual and automated assembly
The company is located in Mirabel, Quebec, where it employs around 300 people. Further information can be found on its website.