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St-Etienne's National Test Facility,
a unique facility in France
St-Etienne's National Test Facility, with expertise that is firmly routed in history Saint Etienne's National Test Facility is unique in France. It operates in 4 main sectors:
Small arms testing: a unique service in France, compulsory since 1960 for all portable firearms.
Small arms neutralization, for dedicated arms collectors.
Munitions approval and testing, for companies
manufacturing and selling small caliber munitions.
Ballistics materials resistance laboratory,
a hi-tech lab for resistance testing of glass, textiles,
ceramics, composites, paints and metals.
These materials are subjected to various projectiles:
bullets, stones, shrapnel, standardized fragments.
Detailed history
Official Test Facility presentation
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Z.I. Molina Nord - 5 rue de Méons - BP 147
42004 Saint-Etienne Cedex 1
Fax : +33 (0)4 77 37 70 46
e-mail : info@banc-epreuve.fr