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The Chinese clone toner cartel claims to be more environmentally focused and that they care more about what they make, but that’s not what history has shown us.
Over the past decade China’s toner cartel has made tremendous headway and financial gains, at the cost of the industries OEM’s, remanufacturers, and recyclers of empty toners. When Chinese toner and ink manufacturers promote that they can slap out up to 9 million cloner toner or ink cartridges a month (photo below), more than most OEM manufacturers do, they don’t realize the impact it caused to the industry. If they were smart about their production, it probably would have been better to keep their success off their website and away from industries news cycle, especially since their products are not completely legal. But at this point we are way beyond that.
OEM’s, remanufacturers, and empty toner recyclers lose around $7Bln a year to China’s toner Cartel and that’s a number that wakes up anyone in the west and makes the industry realize that they are being cheated, especially with so many going out of business over the past 5 years because of them. Of course, you all read Tonernews.com and see the thousands of amazon toner product takedowns every year, the constant lawsuits, the not so friendly Chinese Gov. press releases, etc. etc. Well, the bottom line is that there is too much factual proof working against this Chinese toner cartel to ignore.
It doesn’t really matter if they claim that they are now environmentally friendly and that they are now honest remanufacturers and that they care about so many good causes. History has shown us, that what they say and what they do, are always two different things, and that their greed is far more important to them than any environmental cause. Also, it doesn’t help that the top Chinese manufacturers have multiple overproduction facilities that make compliant and non-compliant toners, and that they also sell directly on amazon, Alibaba and many other online places by going around their own distributors and resellers, and last but not least, they even make counterfeit goods on the side. The Chinese clone toner cartel has dug their own hole, and judging by their history, it’s going to be hard for them to dig their way out.
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