R&D CAPABILITIES

Supporting our customers in delivering tailor-made solutions, it is not only about designing top-notch products but also providing services which will ensure the long-term sustainability of the solutions we deliver.

Core competences

The chemistry of primary explosives: formulation, characterisation, and safe production of these most unstable energetic substances is in the DNA of the company.

Design of pyrotechnic initiators and initiation systems:
Because of the specificity of the substances we produce, DBD makes no compromise and remains the pure player of pyrotechnical ignition and has, in this area, unrivalled savoir-faire.

Energetic materials

DBD is a recognized leader in pyrotechnics: whatever the regime, combustion, deflagration or detonation, we support!

We pay continuous effort to improve the formulation of our energetic substances as to make them safer, better, greener:

Primary explosives;
REDOX ignition mixtures;
Delay mixtures;
...

Pyrotechnic initiators and initiation systems

We enrich everyday our products portfolio with new versions of initiators: whatever your application, it deserves a DBD signature solutions:

Igniters,
Squibs,
Cartridges, gas generators,
Pyrotechnic actuators,
Electric detonators,
Primers,
Stab detonators,
Non-electric detonators assemblies,
...

Chemical lab

We master the methods and have all the necessary means to characterize our pyrotechnical substances following applicable standards.

Test methodology

The specificity of our work also brings us to think and design with our customers' original methods and means of characterization of tailor-made pyrotechnical solutions that we offer them.

Some examples:

Horizontal benches (aircraft release system, countermeasures...);
Ignition train (artillery fuzes);
High-speed camera bench (pyrotechnic train cinematics).

Equipment range for product qualification

We have a significant material park to ensure the realization on site of all kinds of operational environments tests:

Temperature conditioning;
Climatic enclosures (temperature and RH profiles);
Thermal shocks;
Salt fog;
Fall test;
Vibration bench and mechanical shocks (semi-sinus, random,...);
Electrical monitoring (continuous, transient, pulsed...);
Electro-static discharge.

DBD personnel proceeding to product qualification.