This blog was formed primarily to expose what this author believes to be a false story that two of the worlds largest bearing manufacturers conspired to release as a news story in order to use it in marketing campaigns. Since that first project ended with neither company willing to release any information that could authenticate their story, we moved on to looking at all bearing counterfeiting and how it is reported.

Friday, March 20, 2009

How are counterfeit SKF bearings manufactured?

“Counterfeiters usually re-label cheap bearings of any kind with SKF markings. They simply rub off the original markings and replace them with SKF’s marking. Boxes are made to resemble SKF packaging.” (Quote taken from most recent SKF Focus magazine)


It is so nice of SKF to supply us with instructions on how to manufacture counterfeit SKF bearings. So this is how counterfeiters usually do it. That would mean that most of the time counterfeit SKF bearings are not being produced in factories. Counterfeiters buy a bearing that has already been produced and branded at a factory, then remove the markings and replace them. This does not sound like the same story we have been fed, until now, about where the supposed massive amounts of counterfeit bearings in the marketplace come from.


Perhaps they are aware that the way they have been framing their counterfeit stories is becoming implausible. But this is not much better. If this is how one counterfeits an SKF bearing, I hate to think how long it took that poor Franconian bearing dealer to rub off and re-mark that 40 tons of bearings. His printing cost must have been enormous, because the set-up cost on small runs is quite high.


Neither this story from the recent Focus nor the counterfeit story in the December addition of Evolution Magazine mentions any specific incidents. I think the SKF/Schaeffler Schweinfurt hoax may have cured them.


This story like every other counterfeit story ends with the real reason for the story:


“By ensuring you source your components via SKF authorized channels you can protect yourself and your customers from counterfeit products”


How this will protect you when both SKF and their distributors buy from unauthorized sources remains unexplained.

Read how to fake a story:
http://stopfakestories.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-fake-story.html


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