Company

a premium suspension brand

Extreme Racing Shox is high-performance suspension technology company specializing in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of advanced damping systems for motorsport, automotive, motorcycle, mtb industry and competitive applications.

Leveraging decades of elite motorsport expertise, Franco Fratton, founder and former technical director has built more than a company, he has created a technological ecosystem. His know-how shaped a highly specialized human capital, laying the foundations for continuous innovation and paving the road for what’s coming next.

Since the early 2000s, the company worked with leading brands in the motorsport and automotive industry, proving the high quality and reliability of its products.

7 World Rally Championship with Citroën and Sébastien Loeb

(2004 – 2005 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012)

3 World Championship with Ducati

(2022 – 2023 – 2024)

/WRC

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achievements

Throughout the years we have developed new technologies such as:

• G-Sensitive valve
• Position sensitive dampers
• Regressive damper valve
• Blow-off valve digressive or tunable regressive valves design
• Frequency sensitive valve
• Active electronic damping
• ADC – acceleration damping control
• COO – Continuos opening orifice valve
• New patent pending position and self pressure actuated hydraulic bump stop
• Ride high control
• “Zero” seal-hydrostatic passive valve
• Air damper / air spring system
• Large motion damping controlled actuator 20/40 Kn
• Regenerative damper energy
• Tuned mass damper for motorcycles

EXT products display the unavoidable research for the newness, using proprietary technology, while stretching the envelope to the limit, the commitment for high quality products, the continuous improvement and the inextinguishable thirst for innovation that pushes all EXT employees to be the best version of themselves, day after day.

EXT has always been designing suspensions that excel for their uniqueness for performance and quality, as they show the difference between the passion and care of handcrafted products and the uniformity of industrial design.

Quality process

supplier quality

Suppliers Q.C. reports and certificate checks
Suppliers tracking record of reliability and performances
Suppliers machining/casting operations overview
Mid-term suppliers process audit
Choosing coatings attachments points
Packaging format selections for raw and machined materials

Incoming quality control

First article inspection: 100% Q.C. on 4 pcs
First batch inspection: 100% Q.C. on 4 pcs + 20% on the batch in annotaded quotes
Routine batch inspection: 100% Q.C. on 1 pcs + 5% Q.C. on the batch in annotaded quotes
Restart batch inspection: 100% Q.C. on 4 pcs + 5% on the batch in annotated quotes

Input process quality control

Operators handling procedures
General assembly with instructions and pictures for lines operators
Checkout documents with registered torques and loctite made by every operator
Morning recap and training for lines operators
Dyno bech test on 100% of the dampers

Final outgoing quality control

Every damper is quarantined for 24h to catch any oil leakage

Packaging inspections with instructions tailored for every product and by customers needs
Checkout documents with registered tracking codes
Storage for high volumes batches with documents archived
Tracking codes on every damper for production and claim purposes