Optimizing brake performance is crucial in automotive applications and ensuring brakes continue to operate underadverse conditions is critical.
Engelhard Emcor™ 66 ultrashort whiskers are proven worldwide to provide exceptional friction properties, strength and heat resistance in dry and liquid resin friction formulations.They also act as key reinforcing agents in asbestos-free friction materials and as a partial steel wool replacement to improve disc pad wear in semi-metallic brake linings.
In these and other applications, Emcor 66 reduces cost per unit volume versus steel wool, fiberglass, aramid and other long fibermaterials. It also provides excellent thermal stability and low volatile content, increases strength of formulations containing non-asbestos fibers and improves compound uniformity and processing with synthetic fibers in liquid phenolic formulations.
Compressed air used for brake systems contain moisture that can inhibit brake performance. Engelhard's Sorbead™ adsorbents remove water from the braking system's air lines and help remove other harmful contaminants that shorten brake life or diminish brake performance.
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