I received my new Febi fan bearing bracket today. The casting has nothing embossed in it at all. It just has "Febi Germany 11949" lasered into the top of it. I thought it was just stamped there, but the rep I talked to today said it was applied with a laser.

I called Febi because the part just seemed suspiciously devoid of any markings that would have been applied during the casting process. All other cast parts that I have seen have been embossed with the manufacturer and usually the country of manufacture.

The Febi rep told me they did not have their own foundry and sourced the cast part from another company. He said they then put the assembly together at their facility. In this case he said that facility was in Germany.

I asked him why the box and/or the part didn't mention the country of manufacture. Their boxes just read "Febi Germany." I have a number of their parts and none of the boxes say the country of manufacture. He stated that according to U.S. law there's supposed to be a label on the box which states "made in____." Well, just from my experience I can see someone is not following the law.

I also asked him about counterfeit Febi parts. He stated he has not had any problems at all with counterfeit parts here in the U.S.