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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.