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Sustainable Friction Recycling

Globally, thousands of tons of friction materials and filter dusts are disposed every year.


Friction recycling saves money, CO2 equivalent (CO2eq) and enables Green Marketing.


It is obvious that sustainable friction recycling is becoming more and more important. Apart from the established decision factors product, price and quality – Sustainability has become the fourth sourcing decision dimension, and CO2eq a powerful currency.


Green Friction® is the solution for 

Sustainable Friction Recycling

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26

Years of Experience

1 ton

CO2 eq saved every 50 -100 vehicle sets*

Up to


92 %

less CO2eq


Up to

80 %

friction material cost saving 

Up to


21 US¢

Saving per Brake PAD

Up to


19 kg CO2eq

saving per Brake vehicle Set*

* Source: Ramboll Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) 2022

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

  • The company Ramboll performed a comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) in 2022 to answer the question: How much more sustainable are friction materials with recycling content vs. those using only virgin materials?
  • The key finding from the results of the LCA study is that environmental performance across all impact categories improves with increasing recycled content
  • A LCA is a standardized approach to assess product sustainability, conforming to ISO 14040/14044 and was monitored by an independent review panel of three reviewers
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Sustainable Friction Material Recycling

The Six steps of the Friction recycling loop

THE SIX STEPS OF THE FRICTION RECYCLING LOOP

1. Use

Friction materials are used in numerous industries and applications; Cars, trucks, motorcylces, trains as well as numerous industrial applications all brake with friction materials.

2. Collect

Production scrap and used friction materials are the input materials;

The Mercedes-Benz MeRSy Recycling System is a good example for input material collection: For the last 23 years now, all car and truck pads and linings dismounted in all German Mercedes-Benz dealerships are collected and transported to RMS for recycling.

3. Separate

The friction material is separated from the metal parts, such as backing plates, shims, springs, wear indicators or weights. All metal parts undergo material utilization.

4. Process

Friction materials from either grinding dust or solid fractions are milled and treated according to the respective specifications. If necessary, additional materials or binders are added.

5. Optimize

The products are sieved, mixed and optimized according to the respective specification and grain size distribution. The product is now finished and ready for use.

6. Reuse

The finished recycled friction material, called FRICTION BASE MATERIAL, is either delivered to the customer or undergoes an additional mixing process where binders such as resins as well as virgin materials are added to produce a complete ready-mix.

Virgin friction materials generate enormous amounts of Greenhouse Gases and consume vast amounts of energy

Friction raw materials and their route of transport to the production site (example)

  • Raw materials are mined and treated all over the world and then shipped to the respective production countries 
  • Before the final product reaches the customer, a brake pad may have already travelled around the world
  • Landfilling of used friction and filter materials is contrary to the idea of a circular economy
  • We all experience brake pads and linings in their use phase, but with respect to sustainability, what happens before and after is just as important
 
 

Status Quo -
Very limited recycling of friction materials

  • In the EU 150.000 tons of friction materials are produced annually*
  • Only about 50% is used when parts are exchanged, therefore ~ 75.000 tons are disposed as hazardous waste or smelted in furnaces, leading to land and air pollution
  • An estimated 22.000 tons of filter dusts are accumulated annually in the EU*
  • Globally, a multiple of these European scrap values are achieved, the global environmental impacts of disposing friction materials and filter dusts are obvious

* ENV/D/000537, European Commission, L., Recycle friction material - pilot realization of the material cycle of friction materials

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Sustainable Friction Recycling makes sense because

it is a valuable raw material

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SUSTAINABLE FRICTION MATERIAL RECYCLING

It is obvious that sustainable friction material recycling is becoming more and more important. Apart from the established decision factors product, price and quality, SUSTAINABILITY

is now the fourth dimension, and CO2 equivalent (CO2eq) a powerful currency.


Sustainable friction material recycling makes sense because:


• it is a valuable raw material 

• it saves energy, CO2 and greenhouse gases

• it fulfills OE and Aftermarket specifications 

• it decreases dependency on raw material supplies and the global supply chain

• it saves procurement spending and disposal costs

• it is what all stakeholders are asking for

• GREEN MARKETING is THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF THE FUTURE

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