According to a news from Aquatuning on their website, they're going to cancel the collaboration with EK Water Blocks immediately. Managers at Aquatuning mentioned that EK didn't pay licence fees on the coolers they're producing.
Aquatuning says that, EK Water Blocks stopped paying licence fees on products the two companies developed together without notice. EK Water Blocks should have requested Aquatuning to accept the breach of contract or all products will be removed from the EKWB portfolio. Aquatuning then decided to take all products from EKWB out of their shop.
Additionally Aquatuing mentioned that they regret this situation, since both partner collaborated for almost ten years and both parties seemed to have had a financial benefit. Aquatuning said that they're going to find other companies that will manufacture these products.
This has been Aquatuning's point of view. We will let you know as soon as there is a statement from EK Water Blocks.
Citation :
Source: Aquatuning.de
Aquatuning says that, EK Water Blocks stopped paying licence fees on products the two companies developed together without notice. EK Water Blocks should have requested Aquatuning to accept the breach of contract or all products will be removed from the EKWB portfolio. Aquatuning then decided to take all products from EKWB out of their shop.
Additionally Aquatuing mentioned that they regret this situation, since both partner collaborated for almost ten years and both parties seemed to have had a financial benefit. Aquatuning said that they're going to find other companies that will manufacture these products.
This has been Aquatuning's point of view. We will let you know as soon as there is a statement from EK Water Blocks.
Citation :
With effect from 17.05.2013, the management of Aquatuning has decided to drop all EKWB products from the webshop.
In 2007 and following years Aquatuning developed many products for EK Water Blocks under license and technology agreements among other products the EK Supreme CPU block, which immediately became the new No. 1 CPU water block. After many years of successful collaboration, EK Water Blocks surprisingly decided to stop the payment of the licenses to Aquatuning.
Due to the ultimatum from EK Water Blocks to either accept the breach of contract or stop buying products from EK Water Blocks, the Aquatuning management saw no other way then to inform the public about the background of the unprecedented incident never seen before in the 10-year history of Aquatuning.
We regret the end of the collaboration with EK Water Blocks very much, especially because in recent years many good and successful products have emerged from it. The products we licensed to EK Water Block will now be given to other manufacturers so that we can continue to bring revolutionary cooling products to market.
Source: Aquatuning.de
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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