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Fujifilm has announced the establishment of the Circular Manufacturing Centre at Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe BV, in the Netherlands, to promote resource circulation in Europe. As a first step, the new manufacturing centre will collect used toner cartridges from printers and remanufacture them into new toner cartridges.
Since 1995, Fujifilm Business Innovation has implemented a recycling policy, aiming for 'zero waste' and promoting resource circulation, which has involved collecting, reusing, and recycling the consumed equipment and products from customers. It established a circular production system in 1995, which examined the entire product lifecycle from product planning, development and manufacturing stages through to disposal. The company has been focusing on reducing the use of new resources and promoting resource circulation by reusing parts taken from collected used products. Additionally, it has been further accelerating the sales of digital colour multifunction printers in the European market, which started in April 2024.
In the Circular Manufacturing Centre, the company will collect the used toner cartridges from printers sold in Europe. Those toner cartridges will be disassembled, cleaned and inspected after collection, and then remanufactured as new toner cartridges for shipping within the European region. In the future, Fujifilm Business Innovation plans to expand these remanufacturing processes to other products, such as remanufactured multifunction printers and spare parts for production printers.
Furthermore, Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe BV supplies all of its own electricity from on-site wind power generation and from a purchased wind power generation company. Therefore, the newly established Circular Manufacturing Centre can also achieve virtually zero CO2 emissions from the electricity it uses. The company has a history of more than 40 years of manufacturing various products, and its location in the Netherlands makes it well positioned for efficiently shipping products right across the European continent.
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