AQCMS Offers Collaboration to Russian Governmental Organizations and Commercial Companies

Moscow, June 25, 2020. – The members of the Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers are ready to provide Russian governmental organizations and commercial structures with free of charge consulting services for optimization of printing devices fleets and with help in provision of quality consumable materials. The Association believes that the optimization of modern offices is not only profitable economically but allows Russian organizations and commercial companies to protect their employees from the harmful impact of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) found in many cheap compatible cartridges on the Russian market.

On June 19 and 22 this year, the Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers (AQCMS) held several online conferences with participation by association members as well as invitees from governmental organizations and commercial companies. During the conferences reports by the heads of AQCMS Expert Councils were heard regarding actual solutions in the field of optimization of businesses printing fleets; informational and environmental safety issues; advantages of quality cartridges; testing results of compatible cartridges presented on the Russian market; as well as regarding the basic violations of Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants by a number of manufacturers and sellers of compatible cartridges.

Having listened to and discussed the reports the conferences participants expressed their concern in regard to existing issues of printing devices fleets optimization in Russian organization; provision of informational and environmental safety in the modern office printing and copying devices; the presence on the Russian market of the large number of compatible cartridges violating not only the environmental requirements of RoHS and REACH, but also the requirements of the Stockholm Convention (ratified in Russia in 2011, a Global Agreement by 183 countries with the aim to protect people and the environment from highly toxic chemical substances). The participants of the conferences noted that they understand the range of objective reasons forming the existing situation on the Russian market and the forced character of procurement by a number of Russian governmental organizations of cheap and economically unfeasible office printing devices and corresponding consumables.

The participants of AQCMS conferences offered the representatives of the Russian Governmental organizations and commercial companies the free of charge provision of consulting services for solving the issues of optimization of printing devices fleets and help in provision of quality consumable materials. The representatives of AQCMS paid the attention of the conferences participants to opportunities available to acquire free consultations in Expert Councils and AQCMS Competence and Consulting Centers; as well as to the starting from 7th of July and organized by one of the AQCMS participants (namely Laboratory of Electrography) specialists teaching courses in the standardized method of printing quality evaluation LEM 2.01.19 certified in Russia.

The leading Russian companies the suppliers of office printing devices and quality consumables have offered the Russian governmental organizations and commercial companies not only the opportunity of free consulting services within the Expert Councils and AQCMS Centers but also a real help in organizing supplement of office printing devices and corresponding quality consumables, as well as all the necessary materials for organizing cartridge remanufacturing centers for existing printing devices fleets within the businesses’ premises.

“We are ready to meet right away with the representatives of any governmental organization and commercial companies and discuss with them the whole range of individual issues related to the optimization of the office printing equipment fleets; to providing cartridges of confirmed quality; to creation of their own remanufacturing centers; as well as to the educating of the specialist in modern methods of evaluation and providing quality of office printing”, - told the President of AQCMS, Malinskiy S.V.

Regarding the issues of cooperation with AQCMS Expert Councils and Centers feel free to contact us via e-mail: bizinform@list.ru (subject: AQCMS)

The applications for educating specialists in the Russian standardized printing quality evaluation method (LEM 2.01.19) can be received via phone: 8 (800) 222-50-51 or via e-mail: education@electrography.ru