All magnetic roller factories are jointly reorganized, called “huddle to save themselves”
On Oct.27,2022, magnetic roller manufacturers issued an announcement letter together, the letter printed out "In the past few years, our magnetic roller products have been suffering from rising production costs caused by fluctuations in the price of raw materials such as magnetic powder and aluminum ingots, the decline in overall consumption, and other factors such as fluctuations in matching services and returns. The same problem also affects our magnetic roller peers. For this reason, the magnetic roller peers decided to huddle to save themselves, all magnetic roller factories establish a sales platform company: Zhongshan Bencai Technology Co., Ltd., for unified order acceptance and sales.’’ In the following several days, they increased the prices of MR a lot.
As a OPC drum factory, we understand the cost increase during recent years did hurt us factory a lot because we are facing the same situation. But we cannot support the action to increase the prices a lot which is beyond the customers’ tolerance. I think that the MR prices increases will do much harm to cartridge factories, especially medium and small cartridge factories. They don’t have enough MR stock and money like big cartridge factory, when prices are increased suddenly, what they can do is to wait. But all the rising costs during this period need to be borne by the manufacturers themselves. Some small cartridge factories may close due to the high cost.
At the present, we cannot predict whether the magnetic roller manufacturers can increase the prices successfully finally. And we also don’t know how the MR price increase affect us OPC drum and other printer parts factories. Like our company’s
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