says in 2006 the company launched Gunite GOLD (Gunite Optimum Lightweight Drum). “It took many years of R&D to come up with a unique iron that would enable us to reduce the weight of the product ...

Component maker Accuride Corp. signed a multiyear agreement with Daimler Trucks North America to supply its cast-and-machined Gunite brake drums to Daimler’s aftermarket parts group. Under the ...

Accuride Corp. reports that it recently signed a multi-year agreement with Daimler Trucks North America to supply its American-cast-and-machined Gunite brake drums to Daimler’s aftermarket parts ...

“The new 16.5 x 8 inch (9020X) and 16.5 x 8 5/8 inch (9019X) GOLD drum sizes complement Gunite’s existing 16.5 x 5 inch steer axle GOLD brake drum (9002X),” said Tony Pape, Accuride’s Vice ...

Accuride says its newest brake drum – the Gunite Optimum Lightweight Drum — is designed to be an optimum balance between durability and thermal capability, providing the performance of full cast drums ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Accuride announced at Heavy-Duty Aftermarket Week that it’s developing a lightweight Gunite brake drum, using patented metal matrix composite (MMC) technology it acquired the rights ...

Darkness ruled. Workers came and went before long. That was the way things were at Gunite, a semitrailer truck brake drum maker, when Jeff Clark — now director of production management ...

Founded in 1854 as the Eagle Foundry, the Gunite plant is the oldest continuously operating manufacturing business in Rockford and even perhaps the Midwest. Crews make brake drums, disc wheel hubs ...

Also, Accuride said its recently acquired patented metal matrix composite technology plays a central role in its research and development of advanced lightweight Gunite brake drums and wheel end ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A smokestack climbs from the Gunite manufacturing plant. The scene burns with industry – semi-trucks ...