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We manufacture products that comply with the highest function and safety requirements set forth in the most diverse industrial fields worldwide. This also includes the entertainment industry: discover how our products are used in the impressive T-Rex from Creature Technology.

When we heard that counterfeits of our genuine RINGFEDER^® shrink discs were being circulated, we were especially surprised with the falsifiers’ audacity: Even our company initials had been copied – and incorrectly, too. Our lab investigations quickly showed that these were imitations of inferior quality and performance.

Patents protect inventions. For a layman, however, patent affairs are complex and difficult to understand. We try to bring some light into this jungle of property rights and explain how patents function, which advantages they offer and what has to be taken into account during the process from an invention to a patent.