When I got to see the inner workings of the Brembo OEM and Racing factories earlier in 2025 (please note that they're separate facilities, since they make different but related things), I found it incredibly interesting. A bit like my own personal candy factory, if you will. As the kind of person who's loved seeing behind-the-scenes videos on how things are made since I was a kid, it was exactly the kind of experience I couldn't get enough of.
And hey, it doesn't hurt that I've been riding street motorcycles with Brembo calipers, rotors, and master cylinders (not to mention J. Juan and ByBre, on some occasions) for years. Those experiences add an almost personal touch to getting to tour the factory, you know?
But one thing I didn't get to see while I was there is something Brembo's quite proud of having developed, and it sounds like it probably should be. We've all been told that recycling is important for increased sustainability, probably for more years than we can count. Reduce, reuse, recycle; except, of course, for things where you can't. And now, at the end of September 2025, Brembo officially announced that it's cracked a process whereby it can make OEM brake calipers from 100 percent recycled aluminum alloy.
