AQCMS Offers Cooperation to the Largest Russian Universities

Moscow, May 20, 2020. The members of Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers
and Suppliers are ready to provide Russian higher education establishments with
methodological, technical and technological provisions in order to organize institutionally-
based office printing cartridge remanufacturing centers. The Association is convinced that
creation of such centers is not only profitable economically but also allows higher educational
establishments to protect their students and tutors from harmful impact of persistent organic
pollutants found in the majority of cheap low-quality cartridges on the Russian market.
The Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers (AQCMS) on
May 20th this year held an online-conference with participation by Association members and
representatives of state organizations and large Russian higher educational establishments during
which the reports by the heads of AQCMS Expert Councils were heard on the advantages of
quality and environmentally safe cartridges; on economical effectiveness of remanufacturing of
quality cartridges; on the Russian method of printing quality evaluation (LEM); on the results of
testing of new-built cartridges presented on the Russian market; as well as on basic violations of
the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants by a number of manufacturers and
sellers of low-quality newly-built cartridges.
Having listened to and discussed the reports, the participants of the conference expressed
their concern regarding the presence on the Russian market of a large number of cheap low
quality new-built cartridges, violating not only the ecological requirements of RoHS and
REACH, but also the requirements of the Stockholm Convention (ratified in Russia in 2011) (a
Global agreement by signed 181 country with the aim of protecting human health and
environment from highly toxic substances). The participants noted that they understand the range
of objective reasons having determined the present situation on the Russian market and the
forced nature of procurements by a number of Russian state organizations (including higher
educational establishments) of cheap consumables for office printing.
The participants from AQCMS offered to the representatives of the Russian state
organizations and large Russian higher educational establishments to provide methodological,
technical and technological provisions for creating their own office printing cartridge
remanufacturing centers. The leading Russian companies – suppliers of quality consumables –
offered large Russian higher educational establishments not only to supply them with high-
quality cartridges of confirmed quality, but also the whole necessary set of methodological
materials for repeated remanufacturing of the supplied cartridges as well as for preparing
(educating) locally institution’s own specialists in remanufacturing and office printing quality
evaluation.
“We are ready to meet right away with representatives of any Russian higher educational
establishments and discuss with them the whole specter of specific issues related not only with
organizing office printing cartridge remanufacturing centers by the establishments, not only with
supplying these establishments with cartridges of confirmed quality, but also with preparing or
re-training the establishments’ own specialists with their further employment. We offer the
Russian higher educational establishments to really help our Association in recreating the
Russian remanufacturing industry, in creating of Russian production and jobs so necessary for
our country in those difficult times”, – told the president of AQCMS, Malinskiy S.V.