Techplus adds Trax wheel balance weights to portfolio

Tyreshop equipment specialists, Techplus has added Trax wheel balance weights to its extensive portfolio.

Trax wheel balance weights, are made by Trax JH Ltd, one of Europe’s largest balance weight producers.

The company specialises in the design and manufacture of weights to Original Equipment (OE) specifications ensuring high performance and consistent quality. Exporting to over 25 countries, Trax is an international business with brand recognition for design, quality and service.

Since its inception in 1989, the company has been keen to ensure customer satisfaction and to offer class leading product design and quality. Also supplying Original Equipment companies, the company has grown to become an international player including a subsidiary in the USA to support the move to lead-free weights in the world’s largest market.

Trax invented the successful Cam Back weight in 2001, following a development programme with Ford Motor Company to ensure high retention on thin section steel rims. Since then the company has continued to develop new ideas leading to the launch of the patented Trax-Lok steel clip-on balance weights in 2010 and recently the successful Professional range of high performance adhesive weights.

Trax is a leader in balance weight design and manufacture. With a wide experience of working with OE companies over many years the company offers a design and development consultancy to identify and resolve problems associated with balance weight fitment and retention.

Balance weight retention is vital to ensure no warranty claims on new vehicles and Trax has worked with OE companies to develop new ideas on both clip-on and adhesive weights. Such ideas move into the aftermarket to ensure Trax customers are very satisfied.

The company invented the Cam Back clip-on weight design to ensure the best retention available on the market. With adhesive weights the company identified reasons for weights falling off and has developed better solutions for adhesive weight retention on new and refurbished alloy rims. New low surface energy paints and lacquers now require more advanced adhesive tapes. These ideas have been adopted in the aftermarket to improve adhesive weight fitment – Trax Professional series. 

Looking to the future the company has developed a clip-on weight design made from steel, Trax-Lok. This patented design incorporates the Cam-Back features offering excellent retention to meet the high demands of OE customers. Steel is preferred by OE companies as it is a more environmental lead-free solution than zinc and, in the longer term, offers greater raw material price stability.

Trax has developed an advanced steel weight clip-on design that incorporates the Cam-Backdesign features as found in the popular series 200 series zinc universal weight for steel wheels.

There is global interest in using steel as a material for balance weights as some Original Equipment companies prefer steel over zinc for ecological and recycling reasons.

Japanese OE use only steel (or iron) as a material for balance weights and USA OE also uses steel.