In January 2026, the People's Court of Fengxian District in Shanghai delivered a judgment on the case of counterfeiting BYK brand additives of BYK-Chemie. Two defendants were given suspended sentences and fined 600,000 yuan for producing and selling counterfeit additives, with 500,000 yuan of illegal gains confiscated. The sentencing of this counterfeiting case involving more than 3.2 million yuan demonstrated the judiciary's zero tolerance for intellectual property infringement. However, the counterfeiting chaos in the composite materials industry remains persistent. In 2025, Nouryon also issued a statement pointing directly at the counterfeiting of its curing agent products in the market, and international brand resins also suffered from technical shelling with edge-ball model numbers. From direct counterfeiting to pseudo-innovation, counterfeiting has become a systemic chronic problem in the industry, exposing issues such as weak technological innovation and lagging supervision, which not only harm the interests of enterprises and consumers, but also restrict the high-quality development of the industry. As the invisible cornerstone of high-end manufacturing, only by severely punishing counterfeiting, encouraging genuine innovation and returning domestic substitution to the essence of performance transcendence can the composite materials industry move up the value chain.

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