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R Brake
Since the start in 1961, our company has understood the importance of research and development in the field of tribology.
Pioneer in the search for asbestos-free formulas for the last several decades, R Brake is pleased to offer customers a complete range of copper-free brake pads.
Centre Technologique
R Brake has a large Technology Centre at its facilities, which allows the company to continually create new products that satisfy the needs of the market.
In its laboratories, using three dynamometers, the company conducts full-scale tests on all its product lines, as well as vehicle tests. At this technology center, ICER Brakes has installed a test bench unique in Europe, enabling the in-house development of new products and the performance of braking tests at its 1:1 scale facilities.
At its laboratories, it tests all of its product lines on its three full-scale dynamometers, in addition to running tests on vehicles. The Technology Centre has a test bench that is unique in Europe, which allows usto develop new products internally and run braking tests at its installations on a scale of 1:1.
R Brake are subjected to intensive dynamometer testing to estimate and predict, among a variety of procedures, both vehicle braking distances as well as deceleration, as specified in the “Global Spec” test standards, among others.
The Research and Development Department has the capacity to run NVH tests, simulating a commercial vehicle on our modern 1:1 scale SCHENCK dynamometer, using the parameters for the vehicle and brake system provided by its customers, in addition to the information obtained in other tests.
By simulating the vehicle speed and mass, it is possible to obtain all of the information without the distortion of environmental influences. It also monitors friction stability, wear, noise, fading, and the condition of the discs.
Approvals
The products manufactured by R Brake are based on top-quality materials that are scorched and ecological; they are also fully backed by ECE R-90 approval, the leading regulation on the market, with more than six hundred different approvals.
One hundred percent of the brake pads produced by this manufacturer comply with the premises contained in this regulation and incorporate a scorching process, which gives them a significant advantage in regard to the adhesion of the disk to the pad..
R Brake´s products also comply with the international standard “California Senate Bill 346”.
Copper-free products
R Brake is staying ahead of the new international regulations that are expected to prohibit the use of copper in the different formulations. Today R Brake is one of the few manufacturers that does not use copper in any of their brake pads formulations for passenger cars and industrial vehicle.
