Brake discs, perfect components for energy conversion
Ready for the mobility of tomorrow. Brake discs are crucial components for vehicle safety. During braking, kinetic energy is almost completely converted into heat. Brake discs absorb the majority of the heat generated through the friction process and release it into the environment, exposing them to the highest loads.
With Nagel, you can rely on solutions that not only offer perfect precision, but also meet the requirements of modern particulate matter regulations (e.g. part of the Euro 7 and China 7 standard). Our technologies reduce particulate emissions through optimized wear of the brake friction partners (disc and pad) and at the same time ensure that your brake discs offer a long service life, provide rust protection and hardly contaminate even brightly painted aluminium rims.
Particularly in vehicles with hybrid or fully electric drives, where recuperation converts a large proportion of the kinetic energy, our solutions provide the necessary balance between low particulate formation, susceptibility to rust and maximum performance. Nagel – because for us, every brake disc is not just a component, but a solution for the challenges of tomorrow’s mobility.
Precision for safety, cleanliness and the future, all from a single source. With innovative coating technology, the specially adapted double-sided grinding process, process monitoring, control and visualization systems and all the other necessary peripherals, we guarantee the component properties you require.
Traceability of all work steps with documentation
of agreed parameters can be transferred to your master computer for each workpiece. Your benefit: Perfect components and one point of contact for everything.
Precision begins in the micrometer range. Nagel took up the challenge early on to develop a technically reliable way to apply coating systems while ensuring maximum workpiece accuracy. The core technologies we use are high-speed laser metal deposition (LMD) with downstream, customized double-sided grinding. Control and monitoring technologies have been developed for both technologies, which can be easily integrated into your production, especially in conjunction with our process visualization tools. Our technologies make it possible, for example, to reduce the uniform thickness of the brake ring after coating to well below 6µm – a decisive factor for optimum performance and durability. With innovative processes, we achieve maximum precision even in the micrometer range and offer solutions that go far beyond standard requirements. Nagel – because true precision begins in every detail and must be controllable.
Everything from a single source, perfectly coordinated. Nagel offers you all relevant technologies from a single source: coating systems combined with double-sided grinding and related technologies such as in-house grinding tool production, automation, engineering and process monitoring. Of course, we offer thorough training supplemented by teleservice, on-site service, spare and wear parts storage, but also Flying Experts should you require more on-site support. Our systems are fully modular. This means that any system you create for prototyping can also be transferred to a production line at a later date without any further modifications.
Process expertise at Nagel – bundled for your advantage. At our competence center in Nürtingen, we develop near-series processes for coated brake discs – efficient, precise and practical. Supported by state-of-the-art measuring technology, production-identical systems and multi-shift operation, we create process solutions that are precisely tailored to your requirements. For you, this means fast design, short development cycles and reliable prototype and pre-series production that sets standards for tomorrow today.
Our wealth of experience in 2025: over 30,000 prototypes manufactured from more than 200 different types of car and truck windshields and 50 delivered systems in use worldwide.
Hard-coated disc brakes offer several advantages for the mobility of the future
Brake disk machining
+49 7022 / 605-1008
brakedisc@nagel.com
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