Fuji Xerox Expands Production of Resource-Recycled
Color Digital Multifunction Devices
Parts Reuse Leads to 15,500 t-CO2 Reduction
TOKYO, July 23, 2007 – Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. expanded production of recycled products in the company’s resource recycling system: It manufactured more than 10,000 units of the new color digital multifunction device, DocuCentre C2100, in fiscal 2006, which contains reused parts. |
As a result, Fuji Xerox has achieved a reduction in CO2
emissions of 15,500 ｔ-CO2Note 1. At the same time, it recorded surplus of 380 million yen in the environmental accounting of the resource recycling system in fiscal 2006, up around threefold compared with 130 million yen in the previous fiscal yearNote 2. |
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To include the amount of CO2 emitted in the production process of components, the figure was computed converting the cost saved from not purchasing new parts into the amount of CO2 using inter-industry tables. |
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The cost saved by not purchasing new parts resulted from parts reuse is accounted here as Fuji Xerox considers that only the parts reuse contributes to environmental preservation and brings about economic benefit to the environment in the environmental accounting. |
In line with the rapid shift to colorization in the copy machine market in recent years, Fuji Xerox collects increased number of used color devices. Fuji Xerox has been a pioneer in product recycling, anticipating market trends with the production of resource-recycled products that incorporate reused parts in not only monochrome but also color copy machines since 1997. |
While collecting more color devices, Fuji Xerox strived for product planning to leverage those used products as well as product design and development of manufacturing technology that would enhance parts reuse rate. In fiscal 2006, Fuji Xerox launched the DocuCentre C2100, which achieved a part reuse rate of more than 60 percent, and was manufactured more than 10,000 units in single year. |
Under the resource recycling system, copy machines, digital multifunction devices and other Fuji Xerox products are dismantled, with those parts that satisfy stringent quality standards reintroduced into the product line, while those that cannot be reused are classified into a maximum of 44 different categories. Those parts are then thoroughly broken down into substances and materials to be recycled, and even the finest metal, rubber and glass resources, which were previously deemed difficult to be recycled, are turned into raw material. Thereby, the resource recycling system ultimately realizes “zero landfill”. |
Since being the first in the office equipment industry to launch products incorporating recycled parts in December 1995, Fuji Xerox has worked to enhance the collection rate of used products, boost part reuse rate, mechanize and automate cleaning processes, expand production of devices with reused parts and streamline inverse logistics through modal shift. |
In fiscal 2000, Fuji Xerox recorded a reduction in CO2
emissions of 10,000 t-CO2
. Further, a gain of around 60 million yen was posted for the first time in environmental accounting in fiscal 2003, and profitability has been recorded every year since. |
Meanwhile, production volume of copy machines and multifunction devices incorporating reused parts has grown to more than 290,000 units, achieving a saving of 17,400 tons of new resources (aggregate sum of fiscal years 1996-2006) as well as 88,400 t-CO2
of CO2
emission reduction (aggregate sum of fiscal years 2000-2006). |
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