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0 critical materials scored
Verified: no scored critical-mineral exposure. This company's dossier carries no `material_exposures` entries. That can mean its production is genuinely outside the critical-minerals set this platform scores (e.g. a precious-metals-only miner) — or simply that no exposure entries have been populated for it yet; no field on this dossier distinguishes the two, so treat "0" here as unpopulated or inapplicable, not as a reviewed-and-cleared verdict. We found no critical-mineral exposure in the sources we checked for this company; absence from our corpus is not evidence that the company has none.
> Exposure report at /intelligence/dossiers/icer-brakes/report.
Icer Brakes (Industrial Comercial Enrique Ruiz), founded in Pamplona in 1961, is Europe's largest independent manufacturer of brake friction material, producing over 22 million units a year from headquarters in Pamplona and a manufacturing plant in Tudela (Navarra, Spain), and selling into more than 70 countries. Its product line is narrow and specific: disc brake pads for passenger cars/LCVs and commercial vehicles, brake discs, pre-assembled brake kits, parking-brake kits, and brake linings — plus recent additions for electric vehicles and last-mile-delivery fleets. It is not a broad automotive Tier-1; it does not make batteries, motors, or vehicle electronics.
Icer's pads use a non-asbestos organic (NAO) formulation; published NAO friction-material formulations run 10-20% graphite/coke by weight as the primary friction-reducing filler that controls heat transfer and wear. This is a defining ingredient of the product, not a trace additive, though the pad itself is a small line item in a vehicle's total bill of materials.
(Sb₂S₃) is one of the most widely used friction-modifying/lubricating fillers across the NAO brake-pad industry, typically a few percent by weight. Antimony's supply is concentrated (China, with Russia and Tajikistan as distant seconds), making it a genuine chokepoint input even at small formulation shares.
brake discs are grey cast iron, an iron-carbon-silicon system in which silicon (typically ~2-3% by weight) is intrinsic to the alloy's graphitic microstructure and machinability. This is a standard foundry input, not a differentiated sourcing risk, but it is a real and continuous exposure given Icer's disc production volume.
terbium (no motors or actuators in Icer's product line), lithium/cobalt/ nickel (no batteries), copper (Icer markets its pads as explicitly copper-free, a NAO/stainless-fiber formulation adopted ahead of EU and US copper-in-brake-pads restrictions), and aluminium/tin/chromium/niobium/ vanadium (no company-specific disclosure supporting these for a friction- material and grey-iron-disc maker).