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EBC Brakes came out FIRST in all categories with its new Redstuff sport brake pads, table of results shown below together with a link to the full article. Click here to download PDF

The UK Hi-Q Tyre Network in association with Goodyear have suggested the use of EBC Brake products at all of its depots according to a memo sent to all branches in August 2008. The memo endorses the quality and fitness for purpose of EBC brake products in the automotive aftermarket, click here for more details.

EBC Brakes will now supply all OES service parts for London Taxi TX1 and TX2 through system builders AP Caparo for London Taxi aftermarket. The popular Black London taxis have been a landmark of the British Capital for many years and are a regarded as a tough test of low noise and highest durability in brakes. EBC Carbon series pads have proved the winner in the evaluation. EBC will shortly commence supplies of OEM product for the new build on London's TX4 model black cabs.

The UK's largest independent factor, Euro Car Parts with over 8 million square feet of warehouse space, over £120 million in sales and 2000 employees has signed a contract to place EBC premium and performance brakes in all of its 52 UK locations effective immediately. The six figure deal will make ECP one ofthe UK's largest stockists of EBC sport brakes.

After extensive race testing, a deal has been reached to equip all of the Silverstone race school cars with EBC Yellowstuff brake pads. Commenting on performance, Robin Baxter (MIMI) workshop supervisor for the Silverstone Experience says "Our previous pad suppliers product lasted only 800 miles and required new discs every second set of pads. With the EBC Yellowstuff at 1600 miles, the pads are only half worn and the discs are like new." Adopting EBC Yellowstuff has reduced costs and improved driver safety. Click here for more information about Silverstone Trackday Experience.
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With over 600 outlets the UK automotive parts factor and retailer group CAAR has signed a deal to introduce EBC Brakes to its members effective immediately. The facts that EBC brakes has the largest range of brakes in the UK and were very pro-active with the soon-to-be-launched CAAR retail websites (www.caarparts.co.uk and www.carbitz.co.uk ) were a major influence in the choice of EBC brakes as a new supplier.

The latest and greatest EBC race compound yet was launched at Bike Week Daytona 2008 with large numbers of race teams testing during the first week, approving and electing to use the new sintered EXTREME PRO™ range of EBC sintered brake pads for the Daytona 200.including former Daytona 200 champ John Ashmead who clinched Saturdays formula 40 race using EBC Extreme Pro Pads™. To read more click here.

Pro-Motion Distributing has been the proud leader of distributing aftermarket automotive performance parts in the sport compact car market since its inception in 1989 and have over 4,000 accounts across the globe.The full line of EBC brake pads and sport rotors is being added to its 2 USA locations immediately in California and Tennessee.

January 2008 marks the launch of a new distribution centre and sales office for EBC Brakes in Tokyo where all sales for Japan and the Pacific Basin will be centered, covering all EBC Brakes Motorcycle and Automotive Products.click here.

Former World Champion Wayne Gardner has been a user and supporter of EBC Brakes for many years and has expanded his distributor network to three locations in Australia to enhance sales of EBC Brakes products and other quality lines of motorcycle parts approved and tested by Wayne. EBC is proud to have this expert motorcyclist as a user, tester of its products and a customer. Wayne is shown here with two other great Champions Kevin Schwantz and Randy Mamola.

Consumers can now look up applications for vehicles with the super fast DCi Webcat system and USA jobbers and dealers can look up parts and order online electronically.
USA Consumers Fast Parts Look-Up - Click here http://ebcbrakes.iwebcat.com

EBC Brakes stockists in the UK can now look up parts, inventory and pricing and order wholesale online direct to EBC Brakes with live availability data.
UK and European Wholesale Customers - Click here www.ebcbrakes-webshop.co.uk

It is no small accomplishment for a smaller company such as EBC Brakes to find itself as a preferred partner with the worlds largest tyre company, Bridgestone, but following successful pilot testing a nationwide rollout of EBC Brakes to all 163 of the Bridgestone First Stop fitting centres is underway. The synergies of high quality brake parts with customers who are delighted by tyre quality offered by the Bridgestone brand made this alliance possible. EBC wishes to point out that there is absolutely no financial connection between the two companies, this is merely an exploitation of a common quality base of consumers looking for good tyres and good brakes in one location.

Britains largest group of independent retail shops, the privately owned Motorworld group, which consists of 250 retail outlets, has specified EBC for its brake requirements across its branch network.

Winners of the UK 2006 Retailer of the Year Award Carnoisseur have linked up for direct supplies of EBC Brakes across its network of retail shops.

EBC Brakes latest generation Yellowstuff high performance disc pads have been successfully passed after thorough testing performed on two models of police vehicle at Wroughton Airfield (RAF Wroughton) in the UK. Meeting the heavy demands of high speed police chase vehicles, EBC Brakes are one of the first and only companies in the world to have provided products to pass the tests which includes multiple high speed stops, heat sensitivity, and wear analysis testing.

The massive O'Reilly Autoparts group in the USA now supplies over the counter sales of EBC sport brake pads and rotors. The entire EBC Automotive product range is available for next day delivery by ordering at any O'Reilly Autoparts outlet. Click here to find your nearest store.

The USA #1 trade dealer publication performed its annual survey of motorcycle dealers and once again EBC Brakes was shown as a clear market leader and was shown to be the favourite choice of 72% of America's motorcycle dealers.

Featuring over 350 part numbers of the top selling brakes for cars, light truck and SUV. The new Ultimax range has a lower price point than the popular EBC sport range and targets the urban commuter market for everyday driving.

New super quiet sport slotted brake rotors featuring new EPF high corrosion resistant coating are launched in the European and North American markets with applications for all popular cars, light truck and SUV.

Warehouse space at the European distribution centre has been doubled to allow the increased stocking of EBC Brakes components and provide faster availability for continental based customers on the motorcycle range and also now the complete EBC Automotive range plus commercial and industrial brakes from its daughter company (EFI) European Friction Industries.

The new Ultimax range of brake pads, which delivers for the first time an economy based pad in an image for premium street driving, includes many revolutionary features and is planned for launch worldwide January 2006. Inventory is already being shipped out to EBC distributors ready for the January launch.

ARROW SPEED Warehouse is the latest WD to sign up for the EBC Brakes program of sport brake pads and rotors. ARROW SPEED has 7 wholesale locations in the USA headquartered in Kansas City and are dedicated to wholesale supply of performance shops across the USA. Details on www.arrow-speed.com.

Competition Specialties (CSI) is the latest WD to sign up for the EBC Brakes program of sport brake pads and rotors. Competition Specialties (CSI) have 5 distributor locations in the USA, headquartered in Auburn, Washington, and are dedicated to wholesale supply of performance shops across the Western United States. Details can be found on www.compspecialties.com.
CSI supply many products to the 2000 plus PERFORMANCE CORNER franchise shops throughout the USA.

Effective May 1st, Summit Racing of Tallmadge Ohio will carry the EBC product line in their product line up. The massive Summit organisation will be carrying significant inventory in its Nevada and Ohio locations for fast service to its customer base and has chosen EBC as its new brake supplier. More information on Summit Racing can be found at www.summitracing.com

Prestige sports car manufacturer Lotus cars GB have approved EBC Greenstuff brake pads for aftermarket fitment after extensive field tests. During the tests both EBC Greenstuff and EBC Redstuff Ceramic were tested and it was decided that the Greenstuff would be a general use pad with the Redstuff Ceramic as an optional customer upgrade option for race use. Supplies of Greenstuff pads to Lotus have already started.

The British Subaru Chalenge rally series is now officially known as the EBC Brakes Subaru Challenge. The 10 televised events will take place throughout Great Britain during 2005 and most drivers have already elected to use EBC Brakes new Yellowstuff ‘R’ pad formulation which sets the trend intoday’s race arena in Group N saloon cars.

US magazine Undercar Digest has awarded EBC the top ten products award for its greenstuff and redstuff pads in the magazines annual contest. The awards are determined by reader vote on popularity of products promoted in the Undercar Digest magazine.

A massive new distributor base has been established in Sao Paolo by EBC Brakes and full details in Portuguese can be seen on www.ebcbrakes.com.br. The new distributor base will be staffed by qualified technicians which are undergoing training during January 2005 in the UK EBC Brakes factory and will carry the entire EBC automotive and motorcycle product range in addition to the daughter company EFI products for trucks, trailers and industrial machinery, for supplies into this massive 200 million population economy. Brazil is now the 5th largest economy in the world.

Customers in the German market can now order the full range of EBC high performance automotive brakes online from its German language website www.ebc-bremsen.de. The new distributor base will be fully stocked with EBC products during January 2005.

Located in Cleveland USA, PerfectBrakes.com is a web based distributor of quality brake components and has signed up with EBC to distribute its range of premium brake pads and rotors. PerfectBrakes.com recognised the huge void in the market place that existed for EBC’s superb product offerings such as its latest Redstuff Ceramic brakes, and its unbeatable SUV and light truck SUPREME pad offerings as well as the excellent Greenstuff range offered by EBC.

After a full year of lab and race track testing EBC has released its perfected version of the new DM1793R compound for track use on saloon car racing or Hot Import Racing as our US customers know it.

Historically race pad wither NEED WARM UP before becoming effective or RUIN BRAKE ROTORS ... the new EBC R compound does NEITHER. It also creates a tiny fraction of the dust popular with semi metallic race pads which regularly gets referred to as "slurry" on chat sites and is a true low dust pad.

EBC Yellowstuff R pads are legal for STREET use so you can now drive to the track, race, and come home. Great news for the weekend warrior at track days!

Lifetime of the pad material itself is also very healthy and this is a true long lasting pad for mid size sedans or hot hatches. The pads come with EBC's typical high gloss powdercoat finish which lasts ten times as long as paint and resists heat better.

AJ-USA of San Diego USA have stepped up to become one of the latest master stockists of EBC automotive premium brake pads and rotors. Specialists in high performance cars such as Porsche, BMW, Audi & VW cars.

Established in 1976, AJ-USA has always been the place to go for Porsche Performance Parts and Accessories.

AJ-USA are dedicated to delivering the highest quality parts and service at the best possible price. For over two decades AJ-USA Inc. has been a leader in supplying original and performance parts, along with designing and manufacturing a full range of performance automotive components.

The latest offering from world market leaders in motorcycle brakes is the EBC Pro-lite contour brake rotors for STREET machines in addition to the Supercross range launched earlier in 2004. The street Pro-lite rotors have a contoured rotor annulus which reduces weight, improves brake response and brings a radical new visual image to EBC's brake rotor line up.

In a multi million dollar deal EBC Brakes and Pep Boys have agreed terms for National rollout of EBC Greenstuff high performance brake pads and EBC sport brake rotors. From late June 2004 the popular range of EBC products will be available nationally from all Pep Boys 600 outlets off the shelf.

These pads deliver improved stopping power, better heat cycling and reduced fade off. The new material is made in a vacuum process which delivers a very fine grained material density that has had some great reviews from top riders over Spring 2004 during its launch and is now available for most aftemarket and original calipers for world class superbike race applications.

EBC's revolutionary heat applied polymer coating is now applied to the friction surface of all EBC green and red sport pads to accelerate disc conditioning, reduce brake-in times and guarantee brake efficiency during early use after fitment.

Although fashion plays an important part in great looks for the moto-x enthusiast, unsprung weight is a major positive advantage for all motorcyclists and EBC’s new Supercross Contour rotors address both of these issues. The range covers all modern moto-x bikes with the new profiled contour shown on our motorcycle page on this site.

Located in Garfield Heights the new 40,000 sq ft facility divides into two halves to house both product distribution and manufacturing of EBC daughter companies highly successful railway brake pads and blocks having signed several contracts with major US and Canadian rail and metro operators. The facility will produce over 1 million pieces of railway brakes in its first year and allow rapid dispersal of its automotive product to East Coast distributors of EBC such as Keystone and PEP Boys.

After a year of testing EBC Brakes launched its new Red Ceramic range of super fast street and track automotive pads. The Ceramic pads offer a true combination brake pad that can be used on both the street and the race track with full ECE R 90 compliance.

In an initial test marketing exercise EBC Brakes signs a deal with the massive PEP Boys group in the USA to distribute the EBC high Performance Brake range in California. It was agreed that once the partnership was mature that EBC product would be rolled out nationally. PEP Boys, a public US Company owns over 600 retail and installation type automotive stores in the USA and Puerto Rico.

In a share acquisition the Freeman Group buys back into home ownership the Dutch distributive arm that has handled EBC Brakes sales on the European Mainland for 22 years and immediately expands and upgrades the facility to house EFI Commercial vehicle brakes.

In a share acquisition deal, the Freeman Group, EBC parent company acquired Europe's leading independent brake pad manufacturer EFI.
The 58,000 square foot plant at Bristol, England produces over 12 million brake pads per year for Motorcycle, Automotive, Industrial, Truck and Railway markets.