The Fuji Xerox Co. of Japan made a profit from its resource recycling system for the first time in FY 2003, calculated in environmental accounting terms.

In this system, used Fuji Xerox products are dismantled and selected parts that satisfy the company's quality standards are returned to the production line. Other parts that cannot be reused are sorted depending on what recycling process they will undergo and thoroughly broken down. This process can recover even minute particles of metal, rubber and glass that were previously thought to be difficult to recycle, and helps achieve the ultimate goal of "zero-waste."

Fuji Xerox considers environmental issues as one of the most important challenges for its management, and established a company-wide product recycling policy to achieve zero-waste, not only at its production plants, but also in used products collected from its customers. It also introduced the resource recycling system in order to achieve the policy objective of "realizing complete zero-waste and promoting resource utilization."

Fuji Xerox marketed products with reconditioned parts ahead of its competitors, in 1995. As it developed various kinds of reuse technologies, the total production volume of copy machines and digital multi-function products employing reconditioned components exceeded 200,000 units in April 2003. These efforts, including an increased ratio of reused parts and expansion of the scope of parts reused, resulted in profitability for the first time in the eight years since the system was introduced.


http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/eng/headline/2004/0601_recycling_system.html

Posted: 2004/09/14 05:00:08 PM
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TAG Manufacturing industry , Material reduction , System/Law