Moscow, September 29, 2021. — Information Agency “Business-Inform” and Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers presented the results of the marketing research of the Russian market of laser printer and MFP cartridge remanufacturing, as well as the results of the quality and sustainability testing of the most popular cartridges presented on the Russian market.
The Information Agency “Business-Inform” and the Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers (AQCMS) on 29 of September this year held the Сonference called Russian Office Printing Supplies Market – Tendencies, Perspectives, and New Players. During the Сonference there were demonstrated the results of the 2014-2021 marketing research of the Russian printing device and supplies market, the results of the quality and sustainability testing of the most popular cartridges presented on the Russian market, as well as the results of the Winners of the OPEN QUALITY PRINTING CONTESTs held during 2019-2021. The Conference saw the participation by the representatives of 116 Russian companies and organizations, as well as the leading Russian and international experts.
During the Conference 3 reports were presented:
Russian Market of Printing Devices in 2014-2021 – Statistics, Tendencies, and Growth Drivers (Speaker – Stanislav Malinskiy, Information Agency “Business-Inform”)
Theses of the Report:
The volumes of sales of printing devices and supplies on the Russian market – the 2014-2021 stats, segmentation, tendencies; the alternative market of printing devices and supplies – the origins, legislative basis, growth drivers, product quality control, the provision of requirements towards data and environmental safety; the realities of the Russian market – myths and manipulations, incompetence and false competence, the race towards leadership and attempts for survival; Russian manufacturing and new Russian developments in 2021-2025: aims and targets, their funding and their executors; involvement of the Russian higher educational establishments, research institutes, and Russian market leaders in the tasks of providing office printing – reasons, decisions made and perspectives; contractual obligations of “Business-Inform” group regarding the evaluation of product quality and the selection of potential suppliers.
The Issues of Informational and Environmental Safety on the Russian Market (Speaker – Alexander Semenov, Legal Agency “Business-Inform”)
Theses of the Report:
The International and Russian legislations – the overview of requirements and limitations for the market of printing devices and supplies; the issues of the control and the implementation of legislative requirements – realities, solutions and perspectives for 2021-2024; national projects, “Ecology” and “Digital Economy” (Federal project “Informational Safety”) – the aims and requirements for 2021-2024; the requirements of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, RoHS, REACH and overseeing their violation in Russia; the Russian consumables suppliers – leaders in environmental violations and their partners: the volumes of supplies and the framework of responsibility; the actual acts on limiting the access of environmentally unsafe product suppliers on the alternative market in 2021-2024; expert organizations and their responsibility; the results of audits of certificates issued by Russian and foreign organizations – there are more questions than answers; organizing the control of environmental and informational safety of printing devices and supplies on the Russian market; involvement of the Russian higher educational establishments, research institutions and “Business-Inform” Group into performing product testing.
New Suppliers Offer New Products (Speaker – Yulia Danilogorskaya, Information Agency “Business-inform”)
Theses of the Report:
Quality printing and its integral parts – quality of prints, sustainability, informational safety; the problems of supplying quality products on the Russian market – the demand and the profit, advertising and reality, independent and hired testing. The OPEN QUALITY PRINTING CONTESTs and their results in 2019-2021; the Contests’ Winners, their products and supplying perspectives in 2021-2022; the OPEN QUALITY PRINTING CONTESTs Program for 2022-2024 – holding plans, testing methods, expert laboratories of the Russian and the International organizations, the results and their usage in choosing quality products and their suppliers; active Russian production sites and their expert evaluation; planned Russian developments and production in 2021-2025 – scheduled numbers and the executors; the audit of the Russian manufacturers and suppliers of printing devices and supplies – economic performance, declared options and the reality; the growth of supply volumes of quality products defines new requirements towards suppliers and their responsibility; on the necessity of enlarging the list of supplier companies of quality consumables in the Russian reality; the overview of the Russian leader-brands and the results of the independent testing of their products; the involvement of the Russian computer market leaders in solving the issues of providing office printing – proposals, decisions made and perspectives.
The participants of the Conference discussed together with the speakers the information presented, recommendation and testing results, practical aspects of procurement of quality and environmental-friendly printing devices, cartridges and quality toners (for cartridge remanufacturing). The Conference participants paid special attention to the proposals made by the leaders of the Russian market in supplying of quality products from US, Europe and Asia, as well as to the proposals done by Pelikan (Germany), GM Technology (Spain) and ITDL (India) regarding supplying their products that had participated in OPEN QUALITY PRINTING CONTESTs and had their high quality confirmed. As a nice surprise came the new issues of the BUSINESS-INFORM Review magazine (issue #32, 2021) and its appendix “Testing and Quality” (September, 2021).
AQCMS: info@aqcmsrus.ru, https://aqcmsrus.ru/novosti/?lang=en
BUSINESS-INFORM: bizinform@list.ru, https://sforp.ru/en/
