Billings Ink & Toner’s owners talked about starting their business and the challenges they’ve faced. Billings Gazette interviewed Selena Wang, who runs Billings Ink & Toner with her husband Michael in Billings, Montana. The store supplies printers as well as...
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ECi provides business system for Badger Office Supplies
Users of the Horizon, Progress and Vision business management systems will be able to access new trading partners under the agreement. The opXML system can be used for stock enquiries, purchase orders, purchase order acknowledgements, invoices and credits, allowing...
Turbon aims to increase sales to €150 million
The remanufacturer has confirmed it still forecasts sales of €110 million for 2015. Reuters reported on Turbon’s announcement that it “plans to increase” sales to €150 million ($166 million) “in [the] medium term”, while also confirming that its forecast for sales in...
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June 21st, apart from being the longest day, could well become the new website nightmare day, as a new “.sucks” top level domain (TLD) was released. So apart from .com, .net, .org, .uk, .de, .fr etcetera etcetera, you now have “.sucks”.
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Print market to reach $1 trillion by 2018
Patent specialist Scott J. Cooper predicted the figure at an event last month. PR Web reported on the prediction that the global print market would be worth $1 trillion (€935 billion) by 2018, made by patent specialist Scott J. Cooper at the Graphics of the Americas...
Is Canon missing a trick?
Rebecca Griffiths discusses how Canon might be missing a trick when it comes to cartridge remanufacturing, and suggests how the OEM could remedy this by taking action. As we well know, sales of printer cartridges are a vital source of profit for printing companies....
Comment ~ Issue 269 (19 March 2015)
Tradeshows I have spent the last 10 days travelling in the Middle East and India, meeting remanufacturers and doing research for an upcoming feature in the magazine. Three of the days were in Dubai attending the Middle East edition of Remanexpo@Paperworld, where I was...
Dental 3D printing market set to boom
A report from Meticulous Research anticipated 23 percent growth for the period 2014 to 2020. The researchers found that the market will be worth $752.5 million (€709.2 million) by 2020, with a 23 percent CAGR (compound annual growth rate) from 2014 onwards. The Asia...
UK politician calls for “green industrial revolution”
Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, added that more engagement with voters about the circular economy is needed, letsrecycle.com reported. He was speaking as chair of a panel launching the Environment: priorities for the next government report. The Society for...
Remanufacturing “catching on” with online retailers
The industry’s “restorative approach” is being taken up by web-shops selling remanufactured products. Live Mint reported on the “new spin” around remanufacturing, or what the outlet calls ‘reman’, with more and more online retailers offering remanufactured or...