TMD Friction is one of the world's leading manufacturers of brake friction materials to the automotive and brake industry. The company's product portfolio comprises disc brake pads and drum brake linings for passenger cars and commercial vehicles together with friction materials for racing and industrial applications. With its brands Textar, Mintex,Don, Pagid and Cobreq, TMD Friction has a marketleading position in the global replacement parts market. Under the brand names Cosid and Dynatherm TMD Friction develops and produces friction materials for industrial applications.

TMD Friction has four operations in Germany as well as in Europe, USA, Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan and South Africa. The TMD Friction Group employs approximately 4,800 people worldwide.

Brake Systems

All over the world TMD Friction brake pads and linings are helping to make travel safer. In long-distance passenger and freight traffic, in public transport systems, on-road and off-road, TMD Friction products are proving their quality, reliability and safety a million times a day. In research and development centres in Brazil, the US and in Germany -- like this one here in Leverkusen -- experts are working day in day out on system solutions for the vehicles of tomorrow. After all, it takes one to two years of development work and up to 300,000 test kilometres before a brake pad reaches the production stage.