Samuel Liang, G&G’s Sales and Marketing Manager held the latest webinar in G&G series “Walk the Talk”, which included a tour of G&G’s remanufacturing factory in Zhuhai, China.
Following the Patent Talk Webinar that highlighted innovation and patents, G&G held its third webinar in its “Walk the Talk” series, the factory tour episode that focused on remanufacturing.
The virtual tour of G&G’s remanufacturing factory in Zhuhai, China, has revealed how empty inkjet and toner cartridges are collected from around the world, selected for reuse, and remanufactured on the production lines.
According to Samuel Liang, G&G’s Sales and Marketing Manager, misleading information has been spread around claiming the Chinese only make compatibles and do not care about the environment and remanufacturing. “As someone who lives in China and works at G&G, I know such blanket statements are unfair and untrue,” he said.
“There’s a well-known saying, ‘seeing is believing’,” said Liang. “We wanted to reveal quite openly that we are in the cartridge remanufacturing business as we always have been since Ninestar started in 2000.”
G&G’s remanufacturing process starts with its empties collection programme. The 12,000 square metre warehouse in HongWan Port, Zhuhai sees more than 750,000 cartridges, from many collection agencies around the world, sorted every month. Technicians sort and grade the empties according to G&G’s Empty Cartridge Grading standards and policies.
G&G added that it conducts strict empties management systems throughout its remanufacturing process. Every shipment that arrives from the EU must be documented, sorted, graded and stored separately. For cartridges remanufactured by G&G to return to the EU, they must comply with the Bill of Materials and SKUs for EU and EEA models.
After being sorted and graded, the inkjet cartridges are cleaned with G&G’s tailor-made, automated production line. “This has increased efficiency up to 20% and saves up to 65% water, which is a green initiative of itself,” the company added.
G&G said that toner cartridges are remanufactured in a manner that fully maintains and preserves the integrity of the structure of the original OEM cartridge. In G&G’s remanufactured cartridges, two different toner powders are used. One is sourced from world class toner suppliers in China and Japan. The other is the 100% recycled original toner from cartridges collected in recycling programmes, usually used in G&G Reborn copier cartridges.
Click here to watch the recording of G&G factory tour.
