About Us

PMA Friction Products began in a garage working with limited equipment to produce friction materials that met the customer's needs and demands. Within a short period of time, PMA Friction Products’ customer base increased making this venture a full-time effort, which directly lead to the incorporation of PMA Friction Products in 1979. The company continued to grow, prompting a move into a facility with a staff of 3.

Within a couple of years, they outgrew the location and PMA obtained more units which gave PMA the ability and flexibility to increase its capacity and to look at other markets. With this success, there was a need for a full-time office and sales force as well as a production force that worked 2 shifts a day, five days a week. PMA continued to grow, which lead to the purchase of the current 60,000 square foot facility in Batavia, IL.

By keeping work in-house, we offer faster response times, minimize start-up costs, and provide more control of the entire manufacturing process resulting in a superior customized product. We increased our capabilities to conduct in-house testing which allows us the ability to take our customer's application on a case-by-case basis and pre-screen friction material selections to help reduce our customer's R&D costs.

Additionally, we have a tool room, a chemical lab where samples are produced per customer's specifications, a quality lab for testing, and a first-class manufacturing facility.

Services We Offer

  • Technical Assistance

    PMA’s engineering staff can work with you in developing or finding the correct solution for your application. With our many years of experiences, we can offer potential solutions to help solve your toughest issues. We are here to help in any way that we can.

  • Rapid Prototype Development

    We can typically produce samples for you to evaluate in a short period of time. Depending on the complexity of the part, samples can be produced within a week’s time. If there is a need for outside sourcing of components, we will work with our vendors to get those components so we can provide you a sample that closely matches the way the part will be made in production.

  • In-House Tooling & Manufacturing

    99.5% of all our tools are designed and produced within our manufacturing facility. This shortens the time to production and provides us the ability to repair tools if they become worn or damaged. Our tooling department has years of experience in machining and design.

  • Top-Notch Customer Service

    We strive to provide our customers with the information needed to run your business. At times this is a difficult process, but we work hard to be readily available to answer any questions that you have on orders, our product, or any other items of concern. Our customers are important to us and we want to make sure they understand the process of producing friction material to help them manage their day to day operations.

PMA Friction Products’ success was built on its original premise of hard work and dedication to produce a high quality friction material in an effort to go beyond its customer's expectations.

PMA's devoted employees have carried this forward and continue to pursue excellence to meet these original goals. We look forward to meeting our next challenge as we look to become one of the top friction material suppliers.