Movetech engineering center grows Frasle mobility market innovations

Sustainable mobility solutions company Frasle Mobility (Caxias do Sul, Brazil) announces that its research, development and innovation center is evolving. Now known as Movetech, the sector has been consolidated into one of the largest advanced engineering centers in friction materials in the southern hemisphere, according to Frasle. It has further expanded its activities into other segments, such as structural composites and polymeric components, in order to provide comprehensive solutions for the mobility market.

With 50 years of technological development, Movetech has a solid legacy of products, some of which have been in use in the global market for more than 30 years. Movetech boasts over 160 highly specialized professionals who work in Brazil and around the world in the conception of new products, using advanced tools for the creation of components, testing and simulations, within a structure integrated by three laboratories. Operating from Caxias do Sul, alongside Frasle Mobility's headquarters, the center supports all of the company’s global operations.

“Our Advanced Engineering Center is where countless solutions are created. With cutting-edge technology, our team of engineers and technicians works in an integrated manner with all other areas of the company,” say Alexandre Casaril, director of engineering and OEM sales at Frasle Mobility. “We are also close to our clients, producing customized projects, which have been fundamental for the long-standing relationships we maintain with these partners.”

A new formulation for railway brake shoes that reduces the carbon footprint of this product is one of the recent examples of solutions that have gone through Movetech's laboratories. Other initiatives, such as new asbestos-free friction material formulations in the 1990s and copper-free brake pads and a new line of structural composites in the 2020s, also symbolize the presence of the Advanced Engineering Center in creating sustainable solutions.

Focused on the development of Frasle Mobility's solutions, Movetech operates in an integrated manner with the Centro Tecnológico Randon (CTR) — a comprehensive independent center for testing and approvals in Latin America — and maintains a permanent relationship with educational, research and innovation institutions, such as the Instituto Hercílio Randon (IHR), a private science and technology institute maintained by the Randoncorp companies.