Stronger Automotive Components Include Kevlar® Brake Pads
DuPont™ Kevlar® helps provide strength, endurance, and stability to enhance automotive power train and body components and brake pads.
DuPont™ Kevlar® brand aramid fiber helps improves the safety, performance, and durability of automotive components for a wide variety of vehicles, from passenger cars and light trucks to professional racecars. It is not uncommon for a new vehicle to have several crucial parts that employ products made by DuPont such as Kevlar® automotive power train components, Kevlar® body components, and Kevlar® brake pads.
Brake pads
The frictional forces that brake pads are designed to endure take less of a toll on brake pads made with Kevlar® pulp. The enhanced thermal stability and inherent abrasion resistance of brake pads reinforced with Kevlar® helps them to last long and stop the vehicle safely and quietly.
Clutches
Kevlar® pulp provides an effective solution for clutches, which undergo severe frictional stresses. Tests have shown that clutch linings that use Kevlar® do not require service or replacement as frequently as standard clutch linings.
Gaskets
Chemical stability and thermal stability help make gaskets reinforced with Kevlar® pulp strong and durable.
DUPONT PRODUCTS & SERVICES
DUPONT PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Kevlar® Aramid Pulp
DuPont™ Kevlar® aramid pulps are highly fibrillated chopped fibers that can be used as specialty additives in automotive brake pads, gaskets, and automatic transmission papers, and as a viscosity control additive for adhesives and sealants. Learn how Kevlar® aramid pulp helps enhance performance through high temperature reinforcement and viscosity control.
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Suited for Space
“Suited for Space,” a DuPont-sponsored Smithsonian exhibition on an extended tour, highlights the history of spacesuits and the importance of many leading DuPont protective materials to space innovation.