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| Home > Alcon > Our Heritage |
| Alcon Apollo Tamworth Staffordshire B79 7TN T: + 44 (0) 1827 723700 F: + 44(0) 1827 723701 E: info@alcon.co.uk |
| Our Heritage Established in 1984 by engineer and sports car racer John Moore, Alcon now employs over 80 staff at its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Tamworth, Staffordshire, UK with further sales personnel in the USA and France. In addition, we are strongly represented worldwide with distributors across Europe, Africa, Australasia, Scandinavia, The Far East and USA. In the world of motorsport, we are a Technical Partner to the Honda F1 Racing Team, supplying brake calipers of a patented design; while co-operating with a number of other teams to develop the next generation of F1 braking systems. We have also provided all the brake hardware to support Citroën’s and Sebastien Loeb’s dominance of the World Rally Championship [WRC] in recent years. In the US, every IRL title since 2003 has been won using Alcon brakes, and our product is specified as mandatory for the hard-braking road course races. In the world of NASCAR, we are proud to count Penske, Hendrick Motorsport and Ray Evernham Motorsport amongst our front-running customers; while a partnership with friction manufacturer, Raybestos since 2006, broadens the use of Alcon designed and manufactured brake components in the top stock car series still further. Elsewhere, we are proud to be the official supplier of brakes to the Australian V8 Supercar Series, and to have been part of Dome’s successful bid for the 2007 Japanese GT500 championship. Furthermore, the motorsport departments within Audi, BMW, Ford, Peugeot, Renault and Volkswagen all count amongst our valued customers. In the field of specialist and performance road cars we serve an impressive list of prestigious road car manufacturers, including Audi, Bentley, Brabus, Jaguar and Land Rover. In this field too, our reputation for technology and innovation is highly visible, no more so than the calipers for the 2006 Bentley Continental GT Diamond Series, vast but lightweight 8-piston calipers designed specifically to clamp the world’s largest road car brake discs, ceramic items of 420mm diameter. |
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