Redeem Plc expands its activity in Turkey

Redeem Plc, the UK-based mobile phone and cartridge recycling company, announced a further expansion drive with the planned opening of operations in Turkey. Redeem Turkey, to be based in Istanbul, will introduce mobile phone recovery and recycling to Turkey for the first time. Targeting mobile network operators, manufacturers, businesses and consumers, the business will provide a new service to Turkish recycling and recovery markets.

The business will be run through a licensed agreement, showing a strong display of confidence and investment in the Redeem offering.

Redeem has already undertaken successful campaigns in Ireland and Italy working with the country’s largest operators. In Italy Redeem already manages successful campaigns with TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) and Motorola and also in Ireland with O2, to offer customers a trade in and discount opportunity for new mobile handsets.

Redeem is also currently looking at ongoing opportunities within the UK market and has further plans for expansion beyond Europe.

Source: www.redeemplc.com

Key words: Redeem Plc, Turkey, phone recycling

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Key words: remanufacturing in Eastern Europe, chips, cartridges, toner, inks, compatible cartridges, inkjet, supplies, markets

Oce’s profits tumble to as low as -98 %

Dutch printer maker Oce informed last week its earnings plunged 98 percent in the fourth quarter, as business slowed abruptly in the conditions of the global economic downturn.

Oce, a major maker of printing systems for professional printers, was the first Dutch blue chip company to report quarterly earnings in what is expected to be a grim earnings season. Net profit was EUR700,000, down from EUR36.1 million in the same period IN 2007. Sales were down 4.3 percent to EUR802 million. The company's Chief Executive Rokus van Iperen said the company's business was "severely" affected by fallout from the financial crisis.

To cut costs, Oce will "seek partnerships" and try to outsource more of its sales to third parties, Van Iperen said. Oce will also try to generate extra cash by selling real estate, reducing inventories and payments due from customers.

Source: Google News

Key words: Oce, printers, crisis

Memjet to hit markets in 2009

Memjet was the buzz word in the beginning of 2007, when the Australian Silverbrook announced its newest technology able to produce 60 ppm. The speed of the new printing technology was due to a specially designed print head. Memjet was told to be a breakthrough in the printing industry and it was supposed to hit a couple of markets: home printing, retail and wide scale printing. The Australian company promised to set up a $200 printer by the end of 2008, but as one could see no Memjet was at the market by then.

At the opening of this year, Silverbrook Research presented a prototype of a consumer printer with Memjet inside at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Kim Beswick, Memjet's VP of marketing, said that, despite some delays, printers using Memjet technology would be on the US market later this year, before coming to Australia in early 2010."We've had inkjet and laser for 25 years and Memjet is essentially a new generation of printing," she said. "It's a second per page and there's almost no warm-up time, and it prints that continuously - there's no difference in how fast the first page prints versus the fifth page. "Existing color printers capable of printing a color page every second are large enterprise models costing in excess of $10,000.

Beswick said Memjet allowed printer manufacturers to produce compact home models with similar speeds in the $300-$500 price range, which is higher than promised initially. She also said they were ideal for home users, particularly those who frequently made prints of their digital photos. Silverbrook Research began developing Memjet in 1994 but was only ready to commercialize it in 2006.

The reason why Memjet has not yet hit world markets is probably that the Australian company did not get any agreement with OEMs for mass printer production.

Reference: www.stuff.co.nz

Key words: Memjet, printer market, ink printers

Dell put Ireland to shock: sales of PCs fall causing job cuts

The news put Ireland to shock: Dell announced the company would relocate its computer production from Ireland to Poland. The location of new computer-assembling facility will be the Polish city of Lodz.

The closing of the Dell plant in Ireland is more than just a regular close-up. By operating the plant in the country Dell was one of the largest exporters. Dell’s plant was the trendsetter for further economic growth of Ireland in the 90-ies. It contributed highly to transformation into a new “tiger”. Now that the news is out, over 1900 jobs will be erased and the high-technology image of Ireland will suffer immensely.

Dell is following the world’s decline in demand for PCs. Another computer manufacturer, the Chinese Lenovo, which had surprised the world a couple of years ago by buying the computer division of IBM, announced it would cut 2500 jobs, 11% of its work effectives.

No matter how shocking the news could seem, it did not come as pure surprise to industry experts. Lenovo as well as Dell face strong declines for their products at the global scale. Sales of PCs were greatly affected by the financial crisis. So, their pumped inventories prompt at diminishing production, which can be reached either by job cuts or relocation and passing to services of outsourcing.

According to forecasts of research agencies, IDC in this case, the global demand for PCs will fall by 1.3% in 2009. The decrease will be very significant in North America – 13.7% and Western Europe – 5.8%. The global demand for servers will shrink by 1.6%.

Another factor that made PC manufacturers revise their production plans is the increasing interest to laptops and notebooks. Gartner informs that the Taiwan Acer outstaged HP in sales of small computers in Europe.

Semiconductors suffer as well

Following its main customers, manufacturers of semiconductors do every effort to save in the environment of a worsening economy. Intel recognized its sales plans would not be reached in 2009. Its turnover promises to fall by 23% as compared in 2008.

The Japanese TDK recurred to job cuts – 8000 people were laid off and its four plants were shut down. In 2008 the market of semiconductors shrank by 4% and will shrink by 16% in 2009, says Gartner.

Key words: Lenovo, Dell, job cuts, crisis, semiconductors

Brother presented two new printers compatible with Mac computers

Being one of the exhibitors at the MacWorld Expo, which took place between Jan. 05-09, 2009, Brother presented two new inkjet MFUs compatible with Mac computers. The highlights include the new MFC-990CW, a US$230 color-inkjet multifunction with print, scan and fax capabilities, a cordless handset, and a 4.2-inch touch screen LCD for navigating menus.





Brother MFC-990CW

Another Brother's 11-by-17-inch inkjet MFU was also in the public focus. The MFC-6490CW is packed with features, like a second paper tray, wifi, Ethernet and USB 2.0 connectivity, tabloid sized scanning bed, tabloid sized automatic document feeder, camera card reader that supports most popular formats, and high-yield ink cartridges. Its cost is $300.





Brother MFC-6490CW

Source: PC World

IBM and Ricoh entered into a sales agreement

Last week IBM and Ricoh announced the two companies would start sharing each other's sales network in 2009 and promote their servers and printers together. The alliance will enable them to offer corporate clients International Business Machines Corp's servers and Ricoh's copiers and printers as a, comprehensive office information technology system. Ricoh expects the new business ties with IBM to help boost its sales by 1.10 billion in two to three years.

Ricoh, competing with Canon, Xerox and Konica Minolta in copiers and printers, forecast 2.15 trillion yen in sales for the current business year ending March. IBM and Ricoh will start handling each other's products in their U.S. sales channels in spring 2009, with the cooperation set to expand to other regions including Europe and Asia.

Ricoh bought IBM's digital commercial printer business for $725 million in 2007. Digital commercial printers are used to print big documents such as product manuals and direct mail quickly and in large volumes, and are one of the fastest-growing segments of the office equipment market.

Source: www.reuters.com