This year once again, the award-giving ceremony for the best suppliers of electrical components was held in the offices of Airbus in Toulouse. SOURIAU, who was the big winner out of the thirty-two companies that competed, was distinguished with the prestigious Industrial Excellence Award for the seventh time in nine years.

The thirty-two companies who competed for the Industrial Award 2017 are all specialists in manufacturing electrical components used by Airbus. These include products as diverse as connectors, cables, relays, circuit breakers as well as electrical contacts, sleeves and terminals. All the suppliers are progressing in the two fundamental criteria; product quality and delivery lead times, so the competition gets harder all the time.

SOURIAU was the first to invent the circular bayonet connector and since then has never ceased evolving its products. In aeronautics, SOURIAU connectors can now be found around the motors, on the calculators, in the power distribution and (with the migration from hydraulics to electrics) in the flap actuators. SouriauSOURIAU is present in all sections of the aircraft, the cabin, cockpit, motors and landing gear. Very different types of equipment have to be connected together, for example the on-board equipment, screens and temperature and pressure sensors. Not only this, an aircraft assembly line is actually the assembly of a series of segments that fit together, with several hundreds of connectors and several kilometres of cable and harnesses.