Mintex continues investment success
Textar, Mintex, Don – TMD Friction’s major brands of brakes for more than 100 years, are a part of the world’s largest manufacturer of friction products, the Nisshinbo Group. Spanning the globe, production is carried out in 14 countries with a million brake parts a day being manufactured.
This vast experience in Friction material production over the last century is the main reason why TMD continues to be a major supplier to the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers and brake system suppliers for car, truck, bus and motorsport users. Built on innovation, technical expertise in material sciences and a proud history of bringing new technology to the worlds markets these skills are still today providing better, safer brakes to millions of people across the globe.
To maintain this philosophy, millions of Euros of investment goes in to the 11 TMD Research & Development sites worldwide. TMD have over 200 materials under evaluation at any one time, with over 3 million road miles of testing per year.
On a more local level, Simon Bradley – UK & Ireland Marketing Manager – emphasises the need to continue to educate the industry on the quality, safety and performance of braking components associated with TMD Friction manufacturing standards which are approved by the majority of vehicle manufacturers globally.
“For the latter part of 2012 and throughout 2013 TMD will be increasing its activities in brand awareness and technical training in conjunction with our distributors utilising the Mintex brand. Raising awareness with our distributors to their garage customers can only strengthen that supply chain relationship and potentially change buying habits. This has been trialled on a low key basis with some distributors and the feedback has been extremely positive.”
TMD are receiving a significant increase on local training programmes and distributor workout requests. Being a manufacturer TMD can tailor make the presentations to suite all levels of technical expertise, whether it’s “best practice” fitment philosophy or in-depth manufacturing process. There is a fine line between telling a mechanic that he has been doing the job wrong and simply demonstrating where things can be done more effectively, ultimately reducing potential customer complaints and warranty claims.