Akrapovic is a manufacturer of premium exhaust systems for motorcycles and performance cars. It is renowned around the globe as an innovative company that uses advanced technology and high-quality materials in exhaust system design and manufacture. Every component of an Akrapovic exhaust is carefully designed and constructed by a highly skilled multidisciplinary team of industrial designers and engineers; they meet challenges every day, combining a technical solution with an attractive, modern, and state-of-the-art design and taking it to the next level.
Akrapovic shows an attention to detail for the highest grade of base materials that is second to none in the premier exhaust category. Its fully equipped metallurgical laboratory for metallography assessment is a necessary tool for evaluating the properties and quality of products and for gauging the end results. Through the use of over 30 years of in-house knowledge and technologies in handling special materials for exhaust systems, such as titanium, stainless steel, and aluminium alloys, Akrapovic devotes meticulous care to chemical compositions and gas content, which is crucial for the quality of cast titanium parts. Hardness and micro-hardness measurements, tensile properties, plastic properties, and formability determinations are carried out for all incoming and new materials. Such regular procedures ensure the highest quality of the final product and the use of the best materials.
Akrapovic exhaust systems are crafted from proprietary titanium alloys. These are three times stronger than “commercial pure” alloys at elevated temperatures. Their high quality and strength make them more difficult to form than common alloys, but they ensure products that are substantially more durable and dimensionally more stable, and have significantly increased heat resistance. Titanium is 40% lighter than stainless steel; as such, it helps improve performance and handling.
