Schaeffler Friction Products
Schaeffler Friction Products GmbH belongs to the international automotive- and industrial supplier Schaeffler and is the specialist for friction facing technologies within the group. With its competence in friction facings for both conventional clutches and hybrid clutches, the company looks back on many years of international experience and a comprehensive understanding of the system.
The cornerstone for today's Schaeffler Friction Products GmbH was laid in 1928 by the Biesterfeld & Stolting families in Radevormwald. The production of clutch facings started in 1945. Biesterfeld & Stolting became the company Breku Reibbelag GmbH, which was taken over by the American Raytech Group in 1969 and traded under the name Raybestos-Industrie-Products GmbH.
The company BERAL-Bremsbelag KG, founded by Wilhelm Berges in Marienheide in 1942, manufactured not only brake linings but also clutch facings. Due to a lack of expansion options in Marienheide, the production of clutch facings was relocated to a newly built plant in Morbach in 1970. In 1985, the British Turner & Newall Group, which also owned the friction manufacturer Ferodo Ltd., acquired BERAL-Bremsbelag KG and then traded as Ferodo-Beral GmbH. The plant in Morbach was sold to Raybestos-Industrie-Products GmbH in 1992. In 1994, the two plants were merged at the Morbach site.
As a result of the takeover by the Schaeffler Group and the name change to Schaeffler Friction Products, the company became part of the Schaeffler Group.
Schaeffler Friction has a high environmental awareness, a constantly convincing quality as well as high technological production processes and is, therefore, a popular development partner for the customers. Due to the smooth implementation of technical requirements as well as the constant further- and new development of its products, Schaeffler Friction is the innovation leader in the world of friction facings.
Schaeffler Friction Products GmbH
Industriestrasse 7
D-54497 Morbach
Deutschland