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Innovation and Technical Improvements

With a strong innovative vocation, ASK Fras-le counts on highly specialized professionals, who work on the development of new products. It makes use of advanced tools to create parts, tests and simulations, keeping one of the largest Research & Development Centers in Latin America, comprising of three laboratories. Also, the company has a technological center, with a wide laboratory and tracks with different types of pavement with specific irregularities for tests under the most diverse conditions.

Proving Ground

Fras-le counts on the Randon Technological Center (CTR), a proving ground par excellence.

Located 2.5miles (4 km) from Fras-le, in Farroupilha, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the CTR features 20 different tracks, totalizing a length of 9.32 mi (15 km), where the most different types of pavement and specific irregularities for tests under the most diverse conditions are reproduced. Thus, the company may assure more safety, quality, competitiveness and reliability to the products developed.

It also features a 23680.60 ft² (2,200 m²) building, where there is a workshop for vehicle preparation and a structural lab, equipped with a 1011.808 ft² (94 m²) seismic base, electro-hydraulic actuators and workbenches for high-performance vibrational tests.

The technological complex counts on a skilled engineering team, pilots and test technicians.

www.ctr.randon.com.br/en

Global Research

Partnership Research Projects
Internal Research Projects

To improve friction materials properties, generate new raw material, design new test procedures and increase simulation capacity of NVH and thermal phenomenon.

Research & Development Center

Caxias do Sul, Brazil

Partnership Research Projects
Internal Research Projects

In its advanced Research & Development Center which is one of the best-equipped labs in the world. FRAS-LE houses chemical, physical and pilot labs that enable it to develop premium high performance products.

Built area: 3.000 m² (32.29 Square feet area)

Chemical Laboratory

Materials Characterization

The chemical laboratory is equipped to analyze raw materials, mixtures and final friction materials. It is capable to characterize chemical composition, morphology and thermal properties.

Pilot Lab

Prototype Production

The pilot shop has the capacity to produce several types of samples being an important resource to the product development process. It’s possible to develop new formulas producing samples without stopping production.

Physical Lab

Dynamometers – Commercial Vehicle

LINK M6900 Inertia dynamometers with inertia capacity up to 3300kgm² and top speed of 1200 rpm capable to perform tests on brake systems – Drum Brakes & Disc Brakes for trucks & buses.

Dyno is capable to perform all the standard test procedures as well as customised test procedures as per customer’s requirement.

All machines are capable to measure: brake torque, axle speed, input pressure, stroke, temperature & cooling air speed