Fujifilm has announced the establishment of the Circular Manufacturing Center at FUJIFILM Manufacturing Europe B.V., 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, re-using, and recycling the consumed equipment and products from customers.
FUJIFILM Business Innovation 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 re-using parts taken from collected used products. Additionally, the company has been further accelerating the sales of digital colour multifunction printers in the European market, which started in April 2024.
In the Circular Manufacturing Center, FUJIFILM Manufacturing Europe B.V. 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[1] and spare parts for production printers.
Furthermore, FUJIFILM Manufacturing Europe B.V. 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 Center can also achieve virtually zero CO2 emissions from the electricity it uses. FUJIFILM Manufacturing Europe B.V., has a history of more than 40 years of manufacturing various Fujifilm products, and its location in the Netherlands makes it well positioned for efficiently shipping products right across the European continent.
[1] MFP devices are remanufactured from used products, which are collected from customers. The products are disassembled, cleaned, and inspected, and any parts that do not meet a certain quality standard are replaced.
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