Technology

Breyton Design bases all its decisions on one simple premise: deliver the best you can possibly accomplish. It adopted 3 main characteristics listed below.

• Minimal weight for best driving properties. Minimal weight in this context means essentially minimal unsprung weight. This makes driving more dynamic and safe at the same time.
• Optimal strength for security and comfort. A light wheel must be strong. After all, driving security depends on it. On the side of elasticity, there is another story: comfort and performance depend on the right balance between rigidity and resistance.
• And of course the finest look. Breyton Design wheels have to be beautiful and pure.

Mold

Before any wheel production can start, you need to design a highly engineered mold. The mold building process is very important to ensure you have an excellent casting process later.

In Breyton, they have a well-rounded depth of understanding and experience in all aspects of prototyping, mold making and molding processes. And they design their own mold for their wheel designs.

Raw Materials

At Breyton, they only use the best aluminum alloy (AlSi7Mg). All incoming raw materials are subjected to stringent quality control check.

Casting

The company adopted three types of methods for Breyton different series of wheels:

• Gravity/Low Pressure Casting – Design Series
• Flow Forming Technology – Performance Series
• Forging Technology – Forging Series

Gravity/Low Pressure Casting

To produce a really perfect and long-lasting wheel, it is essential to have a top-quality casting blank. Breyton Design uses both gravity and low-pressure aluminum casting techniques to manufacture Breyton Design Series wheels.

Both casting methods offer reasonable production cost and more visually oriented wheel design, yet achieve the required wheel strength.

Flow Forming Technology

Flow forming is more sophisticated in several regards. It is more expensive than standard casting. It is arguably the most cost-effective method when it comes to the production of very light aluminum wheels. Flow forming uses hydraulic rollers to achieve greater density in the material structure of alloy wheels. The rim area is heated over 300 to 350 degree centigrade and is kept in a continuous rotational motion under high pressure and at high temperatures. The end result is to achieve a thinner rim wall thickness than cast one and therefore a lighter weight wheel. In addition, the rim material is compressed, making the wheel very solid and improving material dynamics.

Forged Technology

Forging is the process of forcing a solid billet of aluminum between the forging dies under an extreme amount of pressure and compressing it in several work steps at 10,000 tons of closing pressure. This creates a finished product that is very dense, very strong and therefore very light. The wheel is milled from a forged wheel blank using CNC processes. The result is far greater strength and higher resistance than an equivalent cast wheel provides.

Heat Treatment

All wheels, regardless of the applied technology, are subjected to T6 type heat treatment during production. Heat treatment increases the material rigidity and elasticity, making the wheel even more solid and improving material dynamics. The semi-finished wheel is heated to temperatures of 400-600 degrees C to stabilize the molecular pressure.

CNC Machining

Breyton wheel is set on a high-speed CNC (computer numerical control) machine whereby a horizontal lathe works the wheel to the required dimension. The company adopted a six-point clamping system for high precision centering to achieve minimum radial run-out in the wheel industry.

Coating Finishing

In the final processing step, every Breyton wheel is either coated or electrochemically anodized in multiple layers. This treatment doesn’t cause any weight increase but protects the wheel from corrosion, while enhancing its shape and improving mechanical workmanship.

Breyton wheel requires the application of four different layers set by heat applied epoxy powders and liquid metallic paint. Finally, a clear film lacquer coating is applied to the wheel in order to confer greater brilliance. Furthermore, meticulous quality inspections ensure that Breyton wheels always present an absolutely immaculate surface finish.