Road House Brakes

With a production of more than 25 million sets a year, Road House offers to its customers not only all the “know-how” of one of the main friction materials manufacturers in the world but the most comprehensive product range available in the friction industry. This product range covers European, American, Japanese, Korean and Australian applications with more than 2000 different part numbers on offer and with different levels of accessorization.

A fully integrated manufacturing strategy system makes this range possible by having available in-house the production of related components such as backing plates and accessories.

This manufacturing process implemented 100% in Road House factories consists  in an electrical heated steel table system at 650ºC and accelerated heat interchange applying 10.000 N press force per brake pad thus ensuring that the complete surface of the pad is evenly cured.

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  This process provides a shorter bedding-in period and an efficient brake operation just upon installation as typical O.E.M. pads performance required to work the most severe conditions.
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  Providing safety because avoids the crystallization process typical of friction materials losing braking performance along the useful product life.
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  Healthy for the environment. During the scorching process, gases emitted are treated by post-bur process till they are rendered harmless. Is this process wouldn't be done in our production plant, the drivers would suffer it negatives effects, especially during the brake bedding in period so that the gases would go up to the atmosphere.

R &D department is continuously testing both new friction material prototypes as uniformity production checking, performing more than 3 million kms. a year among laboratory tests, road test, fleet tests.

Comprehensive Road and full scale dynamometer test bench AK-Master test evaluates the quality of Road House brake pads searching the best performance and going beyond of the O.E. results of some of the most popular and extended European vehicles.

Alpine descent tests are fundamental in the development and research process of new friction material. These tests are usually performed by Road House technical drivers in Austrian Alpine mountain called Grossglockner (Edelweisspitze 2571 m.) with a 12% average slope and 18% at the maximum fall.

At the same time as new materials are tested on this road, several samples of the running production are checked following the same protocol and severe conditions as COP (conformity of production verification).

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  Slow descent test:

   

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    Medium speed 40 Km/h (top speed 80 km/h).
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    Long.: 16 Km.
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    Time: 23 min.
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    Final temperature: 600º C.
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  Speed descent test:

   

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    Medium speed 60km/h (top speed more than 120 Km/h)
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    Long: 16 Km,
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    Time: 15’ 36’’.
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    Final temperature: 800º C (more than 500º C since 10 corner).
     

Today Road House is regarded to be the top of European IAM (Independent aftermarket) friction materials manufacturers, with a production volume further 25 million pads set a year produced in 12 factories in Spain, Europe and Asia with a huge capability enough to meet our customers demands. Our production system is fully equipped by the most regarded IAG automatic deep molding presses, dynamic curing ovens and  high pressure scorching stations.

After 40 years of experience behind us and a constant industrial and product development that has taken us to the European aftermarket leadership, Road House now associates technologically with the largest Asian disc brake manufacturer to offer you a range of discs with le highest quality expected from a company with our position and able to meet the expectations of the European market and drivers. Following five years joining development and evolution we meet 99% of European market with a fully tested product able to have been approved under KBA homologation (Federal Motor Transport Authority) in the German TUV:

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  ABE 61209 approval for ventilated discs.
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  ABE 61210 approval for solid discs.

Just as we did with our brake pads, our discs raw material is selected keeping in mind the highest European Standards. Road House discs are built in grey iron smelting with very high laminar graphite content in a perlitic matrix which exceeds the EN-GJL200 grade and the GG20 standard tensile strength, requiring a minimum resistance of 200 N/mm, so that it meets as well DIN EN 1561 standard rule usually required by car manufacturers.

Flatness and parallelism are basic essentials for the correct braking operation. We specify our own minimum safety margins and tolerances comparing them with the competitors and O.E., overwhelming favorable results in both DTV, run out and warping avoiding annoying vibrations, noise, judder in brake pads and pernicious effects in driving.

Road House R&D division checks each manufactured serie by registering samples of the smelting and verifying it under metallographic analysis. Dynamometer crack tests are performed as well to check the resistance of the disc until the cracks coming to the surface.

Both AK Master testing program in our R&D centers and fleet tests performed on road and circuit make a total over 25000 hours and 2 million kms of global R&D testing work a year. That means a guarantee for the quality of our brake pads and discs.

Producing over 40 million discs a year requires top level industrial Company, well developed with quality culture and fully aimed to be a World Wide leader in the brake disc industry. Of course that would be impossible if the goal were only based in the volume but in the quality as well meeting or exceeding all the European standard tests performed by the main car producers.