With its 40-year anniversary approaching, Keith Sedgley, Managing Director of Roadlink, explains how it came to offer such a wide range of CV braking, alongside its own well-established RI brand.
Roadlink’s market-leading exchange brake shoe programme provides customers with a choice of friction materials including DON, Textar, Ferodo, and its own high performance RF materials. All Roadlink ‘brake assured’ brake shoes are fully remanufactured in the UK in ISO 9001 and 14001 approved dedicated engineering facilities.
The same expertise and value for money are built into its huge and growing range of RI branded remanufactured exchange calipers. Also produced on site to the highest standards, Roadlink remanufactured brake calipers represent the widest range and the best quality available in today’s market, all at competitive prices – engineered to perform at least as well as the original.
Keith Sedgley explains: “With the demand for remanufactured braking products increasing year on year, we have been alarmed at the number of low-quality parts entering the trade. Roadlink’s continued investment in this area underlines our position as a quality supplier.”
Roadlink’s dedicated on-site remanufacturing facilities are some of the largest in the UK. Combining this with its highly skilled team and production processes approved to both ISO 9001 and14001 accreditations ensures any increased demand is met and product availability remains high.
Expanding its offering
In addition to its expertise in CV braking and remanufacturing, Roadlink is distributor for OE quality AL-KO shock absorbers and, more recently, Weweler road springs.
Roadlink extended its offering to customers after becoming an official distributor of Weweler road springs, providing premium quality multi-leaf, and parabolic springs for the CV aftermarket, as well as U-Bolts and fittings. With an enviable OEM pedigree, Weweler road springs are state of the art, durable, reliable, and cost effective, and are used by leading axle, truck, trailer, and bus manufacturers the world over.
Roadlink holds over 230 references in stock at their central UK distribution centre with full technical support and access to a database of over 70,000 cross references.
“This is a major addition to the Roadlink product portfolio and fully complements our existing high-quality suspension offering. Weweler is a fantastic, well-known brand within the CV industry and customers are able to source the widest range of products, delivered next day,” comments Keith Sedgley.
Quality assured
AL-KO shock absorbers also stocked at Roadlink’s UK distribution centre are quality approved and specified by some of the most demanding world-class OEMs such as Schmitz, Weweler, SAF Holland, Iveco, Renault, etc.
As the European leader in the manufacture of original equipment trailer shock absorbers AL-KO produces more than 3500 units per day and uses the same manufacturing processes, standards and rules for the aftermarket as they do for their growing number of original equipment business partners.
Combined with a massive three-year warranty this demonstrates why AL-KO is a European leader in the field of suspension. With accreditations such as ISO9001, ISO14001, and ISO TS16949, strict process controls, and full traceability down to component level, they provide a solution that can be trusted for OE and aftermarket replacement alike. “50% of Europe’s air suspended trailer axles now have AL-KO shock absorbers fitted as original equipment,” claims Roadlink.
