Shop Bendix Brakes

The Bendix® reputation of premium-grade braking products is now in the capable hands of the MAT Automotive Braking Group, owned by MAT Holdings, Inc. The company is a leading global manufacturer, supplying vehicle manufacturers, motor racing customers, and the aftermarket unmatched automotive Bendix brakes. Since 1926, the team has leveraged years of international brake-system-engineering expertise, technology, and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities to produce quality brake products for the marketplace. They are committed to driving continuous innovation in conjunction with producing auto parts at the highest quality standards.

Bendix offers several braking product lines including Stop By Bendix and Bendix Premium. Stop By Bendix is a complete offering of brakes engineered to meet OE specifications for fit, form, and function while providing safe, consistent, and reliable stopping performance. Bendix Premium offers coverage for late model applications while delivering efficient solutions to installers as well as outstanding performance and durability to drivers. The Bendix product lines include premium copper-free ceramic brake pads, semi-metallic brake pads, and brake shoes, rotors, and drums.

The success of the Bendix brand has been marked by a long list of major product contributions to the automotive, aviation, aerospace, and transportation industries for nearly a century. With brakes on cars, buses, trucks, trailers, airplanes, golf carts, farm and construction equipment—and even bicycles—Bendix is one of the best-known names in the transportation industry.

In 1907, Illinois-born Vincent Bendix, together with his colleague O.M. Delauney, established the Bendix Company where they started the development and production of Bendix-branded buggies. After winning a patent on a mechanically operated starter drive, the 1914 Chevrolet “Baby Grand” was the first car to have the Bendix starter (which became a standard device on all cars). When Bendix met Henri Perrot who had patented a four-wheel replaceable shoe braking system, Bendix struck a deal to manufacture the system in the U.S. After Bendix died of a heart attack in 1945, his legacy lived on. During the 1960s, the Bendix Corporation was recognized as the producer of more brakes for more kinds of vehicles than any other producer in the world. The Bendix Corporation became part of AlliedSignal, which in turn became Honeywell Corporation in 1999, and in 2015, Honeywell granted MAT Holdings, Inc. an exclusive license for the use of the Bendix trademark on automotive braking products to be sold in the United States.

Marked by product development and innovation, Bendix parts have a history of many first-to-market breakthroughs. They include the duo-serve brake, a brake type that has been the standard in the industry for more than 35 years; the first caliper-disc brakes used on American-built automobiles; the split hydraulic system, which is standard equipment on all passenger cars; and the hydrovac power brakes, which have been used on more trucks than any other type of power brake.