KURZ SCRIBOS products support the BMW Group to enhance protection against counterfeit spare parts

Heidelberg/Germany, July 08, 2025: Counterfeit spare parts pose a serious challenge to the automotive industry, affecting vehicle performance, increasing maintenance costs and creating potential safety risks. In response, an advanced security solution developed under the KURZ SCRIBOS brand has been introduced in collaboration with the BMW Group, specifically designed to protect original spare parts.

In close cooperation, the team behind KURZ SCRIBOS products and the BMW Group launched the first digitally verifiable hologram strip on the market. This innovation integrates highly advanced KURZ holographic security to provide an unprecedented level of protection. The digitally verifiable hologram strip will help safeguard the BMW Group’s extensive global spare parts network, which includes more than 40 million parts in circulation. This high-security feature can only be verified by trained experts using a dedicated authentication app, ensuring an additional layer of protection against counterfeiting.

Enhanced security for original spare parts

The digitally verifiable hologram strip is a breakthrough in anti-counterfeiting technology, offering an entirely new level of security for original spare parts. Developed by the experts behind the KURZ SCRIBOS brand, this innovative feature combines cutting-edge holographic security with advanced digital verification, ensuring that their parts can only be authenticated by trained experts.

Key features of the hologram strip include:

• The first digitally verifiable hologram strip on the market, providing an unparalleled authentication solution
• High-security holographic technology, incorporating KURZ’s advanced foil materials for maximum protection
• Dynamic optical effects, which shift under specific lighting conditions, making unauthorized reproduction impossible
• Multi-layered security elements, including microtext and covert markers, detectable only with expert verification tools
• Seamless integration with a dedicated authentication app, ensuring that only authorized professionals can confirm authenticity

Designed exclusively for expert use, this advanced security solution adds a new layer of protection against counterfeiters, making it impossible for them to replicate or manipulate the verification process.

Strengthening trust in original spare parts

The KURZ SCRIBOS brand sets a new standard in spare parts protection: The first digitally verifiable hologram strip on the market combines cutting-edge holography with digital authentication. This ensures that only genuine parts are used and distributed.

Designed for expert verification, the technology strengthens brand protection, enhances supply chain security, and supports greater trust among service providers and customers worldwide.

For more information about KURZ SCRIBOS security solutions, visit www.kurz-scribos.com.

About the KURZ SCRIBOS brand

KURZ SCRIBOS stands for innovative and secure product markings based on advanced anti-counterfeiting technology. Solutions developed under this brand ef-fectively protect against product piracy, gray market trading, and unauthorized overproduction, while also enhancing brand value through impactful design.

Blending functional security with premium design, this brand delivers marking so-lutions that are both effective and unmistakably distinctive. These are comple-mented by digital tools that enable easy product verification, track and trace ca-pabilities, and interactive user engagement.

As part of the KURZ Group, the brand is supported by a strong international infra-structure and extensive experience in security solutions, including the protection of banknotes, identity documents, and security-critical components across indus-try and commerce.