Friction Materials

 
"It would be great if every part of the truck would work like Juratek's brakes!”  Team Frankie April 2009 
 

Juratek believe in continuous improvement in all aspects of our business. In January 2008 we launched Juratek OEC1 which has been shown to offer excellent pad and disc life under normal conditions of operation. Then, in September 2008, we launched our premium heavy duty pad, Juratek OEC2, which has been an instant success with our customers and on the race track, first with Team Oliver in the UK - Stuart Oliver won his 8th British Truck Racing Championship at the end of 2008 racing on OEC2 - and then this year in the European Truck Racing Championship both with Team Oliver and also with Team Frankie

Juratek has developed OEC1/1 as the natural progression from OEC1. OEC1/1 offers improved performance and fade resistance relative to OEC1 and as our new standard duty pad will run alongside our heavy duty pad OEC2 in the Juratek friction programme. To illustrate the characteristics of both OEC1/1 and OEC2 we decided to conduct tests to compare our products with some of the premier OE grades fitted by BPW, DAF & Mercedes and currently on offer from Federal Mogul, TMD & Honeywell Jurid; specifically Ferodo 4550, Beral 4550, Textar 3030, Textar 7400 & Jurid 539. The range of values obtained from these OE products are illustrated collectively as the “OE Product Envelope”
 
Pad Wear and Disc Wear Results
 

Pad life with OEC2 is exceptional, across the whole spectrum of the test bettering the best of the OE grades at most temperatures

This pad we recommend for PSV and heavy duty applications.

OEC1/1 also demonstrates a good pad life over the range of temperatures only falling outside the OE envelope at the lowest and very highest levels of temperature.

This pad we recommend for all standard applications.

Both OEC1/1 & OEC2 provide for very good brake disc life,  well within the OE envelope,  with major improved disc life evident at the higher temperatures, which translates to a much longer disc life for those working in a heavy duty environment.
 
Performance and Fade Test Results
 

The stopping power of all grades was compared at 40, 60, 80, 100 & 120kph to check both the absolute level of stopping power at these speeds and the variation that occurs with increasing speed.

As can be seen from our chart OEC1/1 fits within the envelope of performance provided by the principal OE products at all speeds. OEC2 fits in the middle of the OE performance envelope with exceptional stability over the speed range, a factor detected by Stuart Oliver in his races.
This gives him exceptional predictability in the selection of his braking points and braking efforts and allows him to “stand the truck on its nose” no matter at what speed he is braking from!

The fade test selected for our comparison is the ECE R13 test used to Type approve new OE vehicle braking systems.

The fade behaviour of OEC1/1 & OEC2 are similar to each other on this test with only relatively small changes in brake pressure being required to maintain the required deceleration throughout the 20 stop test.

For the majority of the test Juratek products fit within the overall envelope of fade performance displayed by the range of principal OE products tested.

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