Pietro Buonfico Galfer

CHALLENGE :: Combined rear brakes demand high coefficients of static friction for parking and lower friction levels for stopping. That works fine with fluids and hydraulics. But today’s sensor-operated systems seemed to make this double duty impossible.

SOLUTION :: European car makers were considering costly alternatives to combined braking systems until product designers from our Galfer friction materials business figured out how to increase static friction without incurring a similar increase in dynamic friction. The result: we are now Europe’s leading producer of pads for combined brakes.