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SBS enters Motonext with Ten Kate Racing

After more than 20 years of collaboration as a racing partner with the Ten Kate Racing championship team , Denmark based SBS Friction A / S is extending its collaboration into the team ' s Motonext project . SBS will collaborate with Ten Kate in developing sustainable brake pads for race use . The development will follow SBS ' s already initiated launch of sustainable brake pads for public roads to where the developments coming out of this collaboration will mark the completion of the full brake pad programme for SBS . Allan Østli , Race Manager at SBS , says the Danish company is " fully committed to the environmental technological disruption that everyone is talking about nowadays . But instead of just talking about it , we are transforming our entire facility in
Denmark into a fossil-free manufacturing plant that is fully ready to lead the product transition . " Our goal is to remove all materials in SBS brake products that appear on the hazardous materials list , while maintaining the high quality and performance characteristics that brake pads from SBS are known for . " This partnership with Ten Kate Racing is ideal in making the product transition that we are driving in our Street , Off-Road and Scooter products into racing brake pad development . The Ten Kate team can be rightly proud in being a first-mover with this ." www . motonext . nl www . sbs . dk

DC AFAM evolves and becomes AFAM Group

The newly named AFAM Group used EICMA to unveil a project that it started working on in 2021 - a new corporate structure and brand identity . " There can be no progress without change ," said AFAM Group Product and Marketing Manager Davy Dousselaere . " In 2021 , DC AFAM [ a member of the Breda , NL based Powersports Distribution Group / PDG ] started to spark a fire , a new adventure we needed to go on . There was a need to evolve , and we decided to start a new chapter . AFAM Group was born . " Becoming a group was crucial to have one unified story that binds everything and everyone together , a group of people who all have their unique style , but always stay connected through their passion for motorcycles . Our group stands for a strong alliance and a perfect fit . AFAM Group is a house of strong brands . Therefore , we needed to rebrand every product to unlock the full potential of
each of them and of the AFAM Group . " We took our end users and their dealer as a guide at every step of the process . We must ensure that our parts and solutions perfectly match what our end user is looking for from his local dealer and in doing that , initiate better connections between us , our consumers and their dealers . " I ' m very excited to be in at the start of the AFAM Group ," says Denis Brouwer , CEO of the Powersports Distribution Group . " This is so much more than a name change . We have paid attention to every individual product , but also to the way we work as a company . AFAM Group focuses on relating to our community on a more emotional level , rather than merely communicating from a product perspective . " We will accelerate the development of own brands within AFAM Group . This will allow us to keep growing and serve customers in the best possible
way in the future . With the transition from DC AFAM to AFAM Group we aspire to become a lifestyle brand with a strong sense of recognisability , creativity and credibility . " Our aim is to reinforce and support our clients in their marketing efforts by being a strong house of brands , by being an aspirational brand that creates a pull-effect in sales . The stripes are an important part of the
new AFAM Group logo . They symbolise the road we have travelled together and the roads we will travel in the future . " We continue to focus on quality and performance . We are an aftermarket and OEM supplier to European motorcycle parts wholesalers and retail chains with transmission , battery and filter brands like AFAM , NITRO , ISON and SHIDO ." www . afam-group . com www . powersportsdistribution group . com
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