GROUP ACTIVITIES COMMITMENTS LOCATIONS CAREERS NEWS CONTACT ACTIVITIES Abrasives Services Tech Markets For years, research and innovation has allowed us to bring high added-value solutions to our customers, some of which have now become international references. OUR OBJECTIVE: HIGH ADDED-VALUE We have set ourselves an ambitious double objective: to increase productivity in industrial processes and improve the quality of our customers’ products. How? By providing optimised surface protection and a reinforcement of the resistance of the industrial parts exposed to intensive use. To meet this objective, we rely on our 3 Research Centres whose mission is to develop innovative products, high value-added services and cutting-edge technology. WINOA’S 6 PILLARS OF INNOVATION Promote an innovative approach throughout our organisation by developing a motivating work environment, and hence generate creativity. Provide our employees with tools and procedures to improve efficiency: Stage-Gate Product Innovation Process, cross-pollination protocols, crowdsourcing platform etc. Ensure targeted technology intelligence to provide our customers with the benefits of the latest technological and scientific progress. Protect our research findings thanks to an appropriate and ethical intellectual property management. Address innovation globally, above and beyond products, to identify solutions and develop systems which anticipate future requirements. Provide our customers with innovative and different solutions, capable of providing them with unique advantages. TECHNOLOGY Our 3 Research Centres and 6 Test Centres develop cutting-edge technology to provide our customers with the most efficient and effective blasting operations at a lower cost. WA COST This cutting-edge technology reduces the total blasting operational costs. It has taken 10 years and endless data collection by our Testing Centres to develop this unique technology which takes into account dozens of parameters. WA CAM This innovative technology provides quick and precise identification of the position of hot points generated by a turbine and high-wear areas of blasting equipment. The outcome is better maintenance cost control and better results on the parts. WA 3D WA 3D technology gives a 3D view of the roughness profile of a blasted surface. This creates new opportunities for optimisation of the blasting process when preparing a surface before coating. WA CLEAN This patented technology evaluates the cleanliness of a blasted surface in compliance with international standards, freeing it from human interpretation. Thanks to this technology, it is possible to read, quantify and archive the degree of cleanliness of blasted parts prior to coating, in view of both improving blasting techniques and reducing costs. OTHER WINOA SITES Media center Legal notice Privacy Policy