Automotive Trends & Market Challenges

We share in depth knowledge about trends and developments in the automotive friction market.

Our thinking about automotive trends and the friction industry

At ROCKWOOL Core Solutions, we are dedicated to provide solutions that will enable everybody to improve the future. Within the global automotive industry we identify trends and challenges driving the development of tomorrows' products. Here we publish our learnings and insights.

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Thought Leadership

How will the introduction of Euro 7 influence the Passenger Car Disc Pad?

This article discusses the increased take-up of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles and what this means to manufacturers of cars, brake systems and brake pads.

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Friction

Reducing squeal from automotive brakes

Brake squeal is often classed under ‘automotive comfort’, and noisy brakes can indeed make driving uncomfortable. Squeal is much more important than that, though, since it can mask real problems.

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Thought Leadership

Commercial developments in automotive braking

This article discusses the increased take-up of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and what this means to brake pads manufacturers.

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Sustainability & Circularity

Formulating car brake pads

Over 500 raw materials are used in today’s automotive brake pads, with a typical compounder’s formulation containing up to 30 separate components. This complex mix of raw materials is needed to cope with the extreme stresses and conditions that brake pads experience.

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Sustainability & Circularity

The disc brake pad underlayer

Most brake pads of cars and commercial vehicles have an underlayer between the friction material and steel backplate. This underlayer ensures good bonding strength with the backplate, dampens vibration and noise generated in the braking system, and gives a thermal and moisture barrier. And, depending on the raw materials used in the underlayer, it may save costs.

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Friction

Standardization of passenger car disc pads

With the automotive market changing rapidly to keep up with customer demand and technology developments, the heat is on for the brake pad business.

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Friction

Friction Products in China – an OE Market Perspective

Our blog gives an overview of China’s automotive market, and summarizes Original Equipment brake pad developments.

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Friction

Passenger Car Brake Pad (PCDP) Market Developments

The fourth in our series of blogs discusses the market for Original Equipment and Aftermarket brake pads.

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Friction

Trends in non-exhaust emissions of particulate matter

The third in our series of blogs discusses road transport emissions, and how brake emissions contribute.

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Friction

Consistent material quality is important for brake manufacturers

The importance of consistent materials quality for brake – and car – manufacturers

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Friction

Automotive braking trends – the inside track

This is the first of a series of blogs highlighting the most important trends facing the manufacturers of cars, brake systems and brake pads.

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Friction

Trends in automotive braking

With the automotive industry changing fast, what trends will brake pads, brake systems and car manufacturers see over the next few years?

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Friction

White mineral fibres

Innovative white mineral fibres for reduced dust emissions in friction applications