What is this - Product Piracy, Counterfeiting, Plagiarism, or Stealing of Intellectual Property? You decide!

Legitimate manufacturers like FAWEMA heavily invest in research and development, to maintain their technology leadership; they use quality materials and manufacturing equipment, so that their products meet and exceed the expectations of their customers; this at the end builds their brand recognition.

We are aware of direct competition (a former representative) trying to take advantage of our brand name and to profit from our reputation, by copying our designs of machines and parts. This page may serve to educate you about such attempts, by providing a few examples. 

We are confident that this unfair behavior by our competition will not be tolerated or supported by you, our customer.

The pictures below show a FAWEMA FA 35.2Z sugar bag packaging line on the left. We have built this machine for many years, it is well proven and the design has been refined over the years.  The pictures on the right show our competitor's machine, they are shown on their website. The machine design was copied during many visits to existing FAWEMA customers. In an email in July 2008, our competitor announced his machine "will be available in November 2008"  - as of January 2010, the machine is not yet in operation! Now, he is copying a sugar netweigher system (made by others) by visiting more FAWEMA installations... In his brochure, he writes "equipment is built with 40 years of knowledge and experience" - 40 years of copying?

Our competitor also plagiarized our brochures, by copying technical data machine by machine...  He even uses the numbering of our machines.  See below! He also copied the product program, line by line (including the mistakes in the original...).

Our competitor advertises that all those machines from the program are "Currently Available" - without ever having built all those machines

And a final word:  we find our proposal texts copied word-by-word. However, when it comes to speeds and accuracies, he makes outrageous claims that are unproven, unwarranted, and unsubstantiated. One example from an email in 2008: "... in the works is a [...] flour machine, 28 bpm on 50lbs".  Take him by his word - we are watching closely!