Supplied Completed Assemblies
With in-house capabilities to supply friction assemblies from start to finish, let Great Lakes Friction Products do the job for you. With the addition of a 150 ton press and robotic welding to our already expansive fabricaton capabilities, Great Lakes Friction Products is able to offer Stampings, Fabrications and Weldments all done in house at a cost which reflects our low overhead.
If unable to completely process, Great Lakes Friction Products has established relationships with several quality outside sources.
If unable to completely process, Great Lakes Friction Products has established relationships with several quality outside sources.
Processing Customer-Supplied Materials
As a company who recognized the diverse concepts of inventory control, Great Lakes Friction Products offers the service of processing customer-supplied materials. Whether it is Steel Carriers, Friction Linings, or all of the necessary compononets to complete your assembly. Great Lakes Friction Products will process your order using your supplied components in an expeditious manner.
Assistance in Friction Material Selection
With over 50 years of experience in the friction material industry, let our specialists assist you in friction material selection and evalutation. Our extrensive history with non-asbestos friction materials enables us the ability to offer our expertise and experience in qualifying materials to a wide array of applications.
Assistance in Assembly Design
When you form a partnership with reat Lakes Friction Products you harness design and supply capabilities backed by fifty-five years of experience. Whatever the challenge, Great Lakes Friction Products' engineers have the expertise and the resources to provide a timely and efficient solution. As R&D proceeds had Great Lakes, steps include Cad-Cam design, prototyping, metallurgical and durability studies, and state-of-the-art friction properties testing. The end result is a high tech solution tailored precisely to your needs.
Application Testing
Ready, willing and able is the approach Great Lakes Friction Products will take when asked to perform application testing. Today it is becoming increasingly difficult to find engineering and lab time to conduct adequate testing for qualifying materials. If our customer or potential customer is able to provide us with test units, we are willing and able to conduct performance tests on existing and proposed materials.
Samples
With the understanding that samples are vital in securing new business, Great Lakes Friction Products will offer material samples at little or no cost. Aware the necessity for new friction material sources to be qualified, Great Lakes Friction Products strives to keep these costs to a minimum. With stock items we will usually offer a sample order at no or reduced cost.

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