Fine particles (PM10 and PM2.5) are the 2^nd leading source of air pollution in cities and the 7^th leading risk factor for death worldwide, causing about 240,000 premature deaths per year in Europe. Air quality becomes consequently a health public issue, thus a major challenge for cities. 

Road and rail transport represent, as a matter of fact, a significant source of fine particle emissions in urban areas, estimated at ~30%. In cities, heavy vehicles (such as garbage trucks, refrigerated trucks, buses, etc.) emit more fine particles than average due to their frequent braking and heavy weight. 

Particulate matter from brakes contains carbon and heavy metals, making them harmful to health (carcinogenic). 

Tallano Technologies, a French Cleantech company, with the partnership of key players like IVECO, has made it its mission to reduce this pollution type with TAMIC®. The innovation is available both for first equipment installation and retrofitting. 

Tallano’s TAMIC® technology is an active solution vacuuming at source fine particles from brake pads and discs. The system operates in four stages to prevent the dispersion and inhalation of this pollution:  

• suction (enabled by a groove in the brake pad),  
• particle retention and capture,  
• filtration,  
• recycling.  

Protected by a portfolio of more than 50 patents across 11 countries, the technology captures over 70% of the pollution generated by the friction between brake pads and discs. 

TAMIC® offers consequently a tangible solution to reduce pollution peaks in urban areas, and help cities to meet the objectives of the EU2024/2881 directive. It will help also trucks & bus manufacturers to comply with the future Euro 7 standard. 

That is why Tallano Technologies partners successfully with key players in the heavy duty and railway industries, such as IVECO, SNCF, Ville de Paris, etc. to deploy easily and safely the TAMIC® technology on vehicles, without impacting the vehicles’ performances. 

TAMIC is the only technology on the market capturing minimum 70% of polluting dust from brakes, on the lifetime of vehicles, in a generic way for different kind of vehicles, and indifferently as an OEM, OES or retrofit solution. 

TAMIC reduces by more than 70% of the brake emission of fine particles and contributes this way to improve air quality and biodiversity care. 

Tallano & TAMIC awarded at last Pollutec show in Lyon and labelled Solar Impulse in France. 

Tallano will start a life cycle analysis at the end of this year, to be completed mid of 2027. 

Tallano actively works with major recycling companies to find a recycling solution for the polluting dust captured in filters in a circular economy approach.