Counterfeit products have been a problem for decades but things are getting much worse, as Fort Vale’s Graham Blanchard explains
Last October, a scandal broke in the global aviation industry after an investigation into a company by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office showed that it had allegedly supplied jet-engine parts to airlines using forged paperwork. The ramifications were obvious – if you fit sub-standard or unapproved parts to a machine that will undergo severe operational stress over the course of its working life, and those parts then fail, you will have a disaster on your hands.
