Automotive suppliers must be alert and responsive to a steady routine of process or material revisions, particularly in an automotive industry shaped by regulatory standards and hooked on the appeal ...

This blog is a compilation of publicly available information on Safran Group’s (Paris, France) production of carbon fiber-reinforced carbon (carbon/carbon) brake discs for aircraft. The company ...

Some of you are probably wondering how do Formula One cars, which reach speeds in excess of 200 mph (321 km/h), manage to brake so effectively at the end of a long straight. The high temperatures ...

Meritor is making a $42 million investment to position its air disc brake manufacturing facility in Cwmbran, Wales, for expected increased demand in North American, European and emerging commercial ...

Automotive design, and thus automotive manufacturing, is increasingly a function of regulations, or proposed regulations. In the European Union, the Euro 7 emissions program that are due to take ...

More than many other car components, brake discs are subject to repeated mechanical loads. As a result of this continual abrasion, they produce fine particulate matter, which poses a substantial ...

Citing soaring adoption rates, Bendix has announced that it will double its production of air disc brakes for commercial vehicles. Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems said that the air disc brake (ADB) ...

Brembo tells us how its Greentell rotors use a special laser coating to significantly reduce harmful dust.