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, Backing bearings 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 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 bearing