Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.

A brake maker founded in 1929. Its main business is the disc brakes and brake pads that car makers fit to new cars, and it has been involved in developing and supplying F1 brakes since 2007. For replacement use it offers standard pads with a friction material matched to each model, plus K4 for kei cars and APC for minivans, both of which raise braking effect by about 30%. In 2022 it released AWP, an aluminium caliper for the 20- and 30-series Alphard / Vellfire, as a replacement part sold through GR Garage and ALPINESTYLE.