February 6, 2025
How to recognize counterfeit Ikeuchi products
Counterfeit products of our humidifier with lower performance on the market
When using counterfeit products of our Dry Fog humidifier AKIMist ®, there is no guarantee of performance and it has a lower quality.
How to distinguish our Dry Fog humidifier AKIMist®”E”:
Here are some clues to help you recognize the counterfeit products:
- Wrong number of nozzles: our AKIMist®”E” has a maximum of 4 nozzles
- Different color:
- Body: the green color is either more flashy or darker than our green. Or even sometimes it is not even green color…
- Nozzle: our nozzles are brown with a white top towards the orifice. If they are darker or black, it is not produced by IKEUCHI.
- Different name on the body: our product is called AKIMist® “E” (in Japanese アキミスト® “E”)
- Different logo on the body (see our logo next to our company name)
So how important is the difference in manufacturing processes with copy products?
To answer to this question, it comes down to the spray nozzle’s performance and the consequence on your manufacturing process and the quality of your final product.
Choosing the right spray nozzle or humidifier is crucial for your manufacturing process, the quality of your end product, and your productivity by reducing your costs.
Performance of Ikeuchi products vs. copy products
If nozzles have burrs at the orifice due to an imprecise tooling for example, then you can be sure that you will have an inconsistent performance.
Burrs and streaks in the spray pattern have impacts on the spray pattern, the spray distribution, the impact strength, and the water consumption.
A spray nozzle with a production error will have an uneven water density and impact which means for you:
- Larger amount of water consumption;
- Insufficient performance;
- Easily clogged nozzles;
- Increased in running cost;
- Poorer quality for your final product;
- Increased maintenance time and cost to replace the damaged nozzles;
- Increased replacement time of the nozzles.
When one nozzle has a low performance, the results in a multi-nozzle arrangement will have an even worse performance.
If you use a copy product of our Dry Fog humidifier, the consistency of the water droplets size is uneven. Therefore, you are risking your production by getting it wet. You will also increase your cost by consuming more air, needing more maintenance and replacement due to lower-quality parts.
Guarantee of performance as a spray and air nozzle manufacturer
As a nozzle manufacturer, we take upon our responsibility to provide a high-quality product to our customers. Therefore, we always test the quality of one nozzle per batch of production to ensure we always deliver high quality.
We officially guarantee the performance of our nozzles in terms of:
- spray capacity;
- spray angle;
- and spray angle tolerance for solid stream jet nozzles.
Benefit of a good performance product to help you deliver a high-quality final product for your business.
As a nozzle manufacturer with a high standard, the quality of our nozzles is our priority. Delivering a well manufactured, high-quality nozzle is a standard for our factories and we always test a nozzle per batch of production to keep our promise of high standard.
Please do not confuse our quality products to the copy products available on the market.
Contact us if you want more information about our products.