confiscation and proper disposal will lead to high costs.

Schaeffler has been traced on a global scale and distribution of counterfeit bearings, and may in some cases litigation. Not only under civil law to stop order or damage or destruction of counterfeit products turned over claims threat, but also under criminal law with fines and imprisonment if necessary, the threat of prosecution. Economic losses caused by counterfeit products is difficult to measure. In addition to the loss of revenue due to low-quality merchandise and caused damage to the company's image, bearing the investigation, confiscation and proper disposal will lead to high costs.
Not only is the production of branded products and conduct complex research, development and quality assurance of the company has been lost, the installation of counterfeit parts companies and their customers will suffer. Switzerland, a recent case once again proved that when the bearing as a safety-related parts used in machinery and equipment, its failure would cause significant losses. As a customer complaint a Swiss company, making the machine repaired installed a cylindrical roller bearing manufacturer fake events became clear. Despite regular maintenance, the machine is still in just six months after the occurrence of the thermal operation. Although the client to discover an exception, but still resulted in about 17,000 euros maintenance fee that exceeds many times the value of the bearingIn 2007 the first public display of destruction operations, about 40 tons of counterfeit bearings Schaeffler company is located in Schweinfurt be destroyed, but there are many other global destruction of counterfeit goods operations. In that action after this there are about 26 tons, valued at over one million euros of counterfeit bearings in Schweinfurt INTERSEROH Franken Rohstoff limited liability company's office premises were destroyed. A large proportion of counterfeit products come from the European raids bearing distributors, such as Italy and the UK dealers. But there are some fake bearings from Germany. "The phenomenon of counterfeit brands and products not only confined to the Chinese and South-Eastern Europe, it also occurs in our doorstep." Schaeffler Global Brand Protection team leader Ingrid Bichelmeir-B hn said. "German and European markets are not just flooded with counterfeit luxury goods or consumer goods, industrial safety-related counterfeit products, such as bearings, is also increasing."