Moscow, March 23, 2021 – The Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers (AQCMS) and Information Agency “Business-Inform” organized and held on March 23 the online-conference “The Industry of Cartridge Remanufacturing Is Changing, but Its Postulates Remain the Same. Focus on Quality!” The Conference saw participation by the representatives of 84 Russian companies — buyers of office printing devices and corresponding supplies, as well as by the heads of 37 those companies related remanufacturing centers.
The Conference was devoted to the discussion of the article «New Chinese Cartridges are Mythbusters of Common Facts» by Alexey Belikov and Stanislav Malinskiy, published in the BUSINESS-INFORM Review magazine (issue # 30, 2021).
During the Conference the report by Stanislav Malinskiy (“Business-Inform” Group) was presented:
— The Protection of the Environment Requires the Development of Cartridge Remanufacturing and Reuse Industry. It Is our Duty to Remanufacture All Cartridges both OEM and NBCs
Theses of the Report:
Our postulates:
— ОЕМ-cartridges – products that stably have high quality. It was so, and so it will always be. Those cartridges will always be a landmark for manufacturers of alternative products.
— Remanufacturing is the correct ecological policy. It is its realization that defines the future of our planet. Remanufactured cartridges save our planet. It is absolutely unimportant whether the remanufactured cartridges ore OEM ones or NBCs. Every remanufactured cartridge makes its input into protecting the environment.
— The real enemies of the alternative products industry are manufacturers and sellers of cheap low-quality products. At the same time it is absolutely unimportant whether such products are new (NBCs) or remanufactured (remanufactured ОЕМ-cartridges and remanufactured NBCs). It is the low-quality products that repel the buyer from any non-OEM cartridges (whether remanufactured or NBCs) and interfere with the sales of high-quality cartridges.
Everything in the worlds is a subject to change. Many facts ceased to be facts and turned into myths.
For instance:
- NBC is a single-use product.
- NBC is a toxic product.
- ОЕМ-cartridge is an IDEAL to be strived for.
Those facts have already become myths.
- NBC is a single-use product.
From our article:
«In 2019 the share of remanufactured NBCs on the Russian market exceeded 40% (45.7% or 19.2 mln units), and in 2020 it came close to the half of the whole remanufacturing market (48.9% or 20.9 mln units). On average, quality NBCs supplied on the alternative market in 2019 could pass 3.4 remanufacturing cycles per cartridge. The thesis about ALL NBCs being ‘single-use’ and their non-compliance with the requirements of circular economy is becoming history»
- NBC is a toxic product.
From our article:
«The testing held in one of scientific-research institutions of the Russian Academy of Science: the content of decaBDE in Uniton ECO-Protected cartridge (one of the Russian NBC-brands) is less than 0.03 mg/kg, while in an OEM-cartridge shell it is 0.5 mg/kg».
So the Chinese companies have already started to produce cartridges that are not toxic. The growth of non-toxic NBCs’ production volumes is a matter of time.
- ОЕМ-cartridge is an IDEAL to be strived for.
Our contests demonstrated high quality of alternative cartridges. The printing quality of alternative winner-cartridges was HIGHER than the quality of printing of OEM cartridges. Therefore OEM cartridges will always remain a landmark for alternative products manufacturers but NOT AN IDEAL! Of course the quality of the alternative cartridges is not stable. But the achievement of a stable quality is a matter of time.
The Global market contains cartridges of absolutely varied quality levels. The majority of users evaluate cartridges according to the quality of prints done by those cartridges. Accordingly, the opinion by the considerable part of users that all alternative (non-ОЕМ) cartridges are low-quality, is formed not only within the audience of buyers who are using not only cheap and low-quality NBCs but also among buyers who use badly remanufactured OEM cartridges and badly remanufactured NBCs. Low quality remanufactured ОЕМ-cartridges are as harmful for the image of alternative cartridges as low-quality NBCs!
The offer the discussion with the representatives of the global leading companies of the remanufacturing industry the following: Isn’t it a time for a Global industry of remanufacturing to shift the alternative product image struggle focus from NBCs to the whole range of low-quality alternative products? Isn’t it a time for the global remanufacturing industry leaders to join negotiations with the largest Chinese manufacturers of NBCs, whose success in making quality and sustainable products is evident? Such unification of strengths and abilities of the leaders could have made an effective barrier for manufacturing and supplying of low-quality products. And for development of the whole remanufacturing industry the growth of quality empties might be useful.
The participants of the Conference discussed together with the speakers provided information, recommendations and testing results, practical aspects of quality cartridges procurement organizing, their printing quality control aspects and methods of remanufacturing refilling of those cartridges.
In the end of the Conference, the Participants thanked the organizers and speaker and expressed the wish to continue the discussion of the urgent issues of the office printing industry within the framework of other AQCMS Online Conferences for Russian corporative buyers of printing devices and consumables on the following topic: “The Global Industry Pretends not to See Quality and Sustainable NBCs. What Is It – Politics, Competition, or Reluctance to Admit?”
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