Kuwait AC Spare Parts: project record
12% of compressors failed within 60 days in summer loads; teardown revealed counterfeit internals and non-genuine refrigerant charge; two brands threatened legal action.
- Buyer and project
- A Kuwait City, Kuwait distributor of air-conditioning spares and compressors.
- Products and scope
- Rotary compressors and AC spare parts; 14 SKUs, 9,000 units per year.
What LifaSourcing.com did
Verified genuine status via serial numbers with the OEMs.
Mapped the gray-market supply route to the source.
Switched to authorized distributor channels for compressors.
Set up serial verification at inbound QC for all critical SKUs.
Gray-market stock recalled; authorized-channel supply restored; failure rate fell to 1.4%; OEMs issued authorized-dealer status.
A proven case study from LifaSourcing.com's historical work archive. The result above records the status reached in this project.
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