Negative price Plagiarius
Special prize for the laziest serial offender
On February 3, 2023, the Plagiarius campaign awarded the Plagiarius negative prize to manufacturers and retailers of particularly brazen counterfeits and fakes for the 47th time.
Products from the D30 LPS series (extract) and a wide range of components (brackets, connectors, etc.) (application: operating equipment, machines, systems)
Originals: item Industrietechnik GmbH, Solingen, Germany
Counterfeits: Fath GmbH, Spalt, Germany
Inspiration misunderstood. Even with technical products, there is room for design. As one of the market leaders in modular systems for industrial applications, Item has undoubtedly set various market standards for others to follow. While Item and many of its competitors inspire each other and have all developed their own design language and typical individual design features, Fath's range has for years included numerous products that look confusingly similar to Item products. Further development, individual characteristics or even the aforementioned innovation? Not recognizable. No amount of marketing can make a creative imitation look good.
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