Domestic friction materials break international monopoly, Chinese manufacturing moves towards high-end development

For a long time, domestic engineering machinery brake friction pads, friction pads for passenger cars and commercial vehicle automatic transmissions, as well as clutch friction pads for large-displacement motorcycles, have largely relied on foreign imports.

Japanese companies have monopolized the market in this area.

Facing this situation, Chinese friction pad companies have successfully overcome multiple key technological bottlenecks through continuous technological breakthroughs and independent innovation. Hangfeng New Materials, relying on the research achievements of Academician Li Hejun's team from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University in the field of carbon fiber reinforced materials for over 10 years, has developed friction pad products with independent intellectual property rights.

Compared with traditional metal-based friction materials, paper-based friction pads have characteristics such as high friction coefficient, smooth bonding, long service life, low noise, and low cost, offering very broad application prospects.

Hangfeng New Materials uses a manufacturing process of carbon fiber reinforced paper-based materials, leveraging the high specific strength, good thermal conductivity, and self-lubricating properties of carbon fiber to develop a series of materials with high temperature resistance, low wear, and high friction coefficient.

These materials demonstrate excellent friction stability in key component application scenarios such as automotive automatic transmissions, engineering machinery hydraulic torque converters, and motorcycle clutches.

Among them, engineering machinery friction pads certified by the EU CE have advantages of high wear resistance, high temperature resistance, and impact resistance, suitable for various heavy machinery complex working conditions; motorcycle clutch friction pads significantly improve transmission efficiency and service life by optimizing heat resistance.