IAA Transportation show — Berlin, supported by Paris and Barcelona, in talks to field-test Tallano’s brake dust capture system, alongside DHL and Petit Forestier

At IAA Transportation 2026 (Hall 12, Stand B72), Tallano Technologies announces that it is in advanced talks with the city of Berlin, within a consortium supported by the cities of Paris and Barcelona, and with DHL and Petit Forestier, for field evaluations of TAMIC®, its brake dust emission collection system. These evaluations would extend to freight transport and to several major European cities a technology already in service on public transport fleets in France.

Brake wear has become one of the main sources of particulate pollution from road transport. On a modern vehicle, most of the fine particles emitted no longer come from the exhaust pipe but from the brakes and tyres. These particles are released where people are most exposed: at bus stops, traffic lights, delivery points and in city centres. The European Environment Agency still attributes around 180,000 premature deaths a year in the European Union to fine particle pollution. TAMIC® captures up to 85% of brake particles at source through suction and is available as original equipment, as post-equipment on new vehicles and as a retrofit.

“Thirty years of Euro standards cleaned up the exhaust pipe, and it worked. But the particles coming off a brake disc were never regulated, and they are released exactly where people breathe,” says Damien Delcloy, Sales Director of Tallano Technologies. “Electrification does not solve this. An electric vehicle is heavier and still uses its friction brakes. A zero-emission vehicle is not a zero-particle vehicle, and that’s what these pioneering partners wish to address.”

These projects are taking shape as European legislation closes in on this source. Euro 7 (Regulation (EU) 2024/1257) introduces brake particle limits for cars and vans, applicable to new vehicle types from 29 November 2026, and provides for their extension to buses and trucks from 2030, subject to a European Commission review due by the end of 2027. In parallel, the recast Ambient Air Quality Directive (EU) 2024/2881 roughly halves the limit values Member States must meet by 1 January 2030: from 25 to 10 µg/m³ for PM2.5, and from 40 to 20 µg/m³ for PM10. The field evaluations announced today are designed to produce real-world data while those limits are still being defined.