BENDIX TCH-014-003 User Manual

Technical Bulletin

Bulletin No.: PRO-14-03 Effective Date: 9/22/80 Cancels: N/A Page: 1 of 2

Subject: FRICTION MATERIAL GOOD, BETTER, BEST

MERCHANDISING PROGRAM

If you attended the DAC meeting in September (that glorious oasis) you heard about our
new packaging image to be phased-in commencing with October 1, 1980 production.

The concept is designed to emphasize a Good, Better, Best merchandising program …
to provide important sales literature and technical pieces to support the selling job of
matching the right quality and type of friction material to applications having varying
degrees of severity.

It is not practical to expect a single type friction material to satisfy all types of service,
and end up the best buy. Quite often the higher price type is the best buy over the long
haul.

In our Good, Better, Best strategy, green label sets are designed for medium duty
service … blue label sets for heavy duty service, and red label sets for extra heavy duty,
or special types of service.

The product line scope includes seven different types of brake block and two types of
truck segment sets.

GOOD

(Green Label)

ST Standard EM Extra Mileage

HP High Performance

Truck Sets

FK Friction King ED Extra Duty

BETTER

(Blue Label)

BEST

(Red Label)

S-1100 Special
MET Semi-metallic
EM/MET Combination
ST/S-1100 Combination

In addition to the color-coded packaging labels, we’ll have the same package colors
displayed on the respective block edges in the form of a one-inch stripe. At a glance you
can differentiate type of product, in or out of the box, or on the shoe.

You will begin to see the new labels October 1 … and sales literature support pieces at a
later time perhaps in December, sooner, if possible.

WATCH FOR OUR NEW LOOK … AND UNIQUE APPROACH TO SALES AND
MERCHANDISING.