Fuji Xerox Achieves No Emissions and 3 Certifications in Suzhou
Saturday, March 28, 2009 11:05
In what may sound like a bit of propaganda, Fuji Xerox’s Suzhou facility has just received ISO9001, ISO14001 and OHSAS18001 Certifications for their plant which was designed for the three zeros:
Fuji Xerox Eco-Manufacturing (Suzhou) constructed an integrated recycling system in China and commenced operation in January 2008 with the aim of achieving “zero landfill,” “no pollution” and “no illegal disposal.”
It is a fantastic example of a facility whose very design will result in not only a reduced direct footprint, but will help to drastically improve the legacy footprint of many Fuji products:
Fuji Xerox Eco-Manufacturing (Suzhou) completely disassembles and recycles used products including copy/multifunction devices and cartridges recovered from all over China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) by Fuji Xerox (China) Ltd., Fuji Xerox’s sales company in China. The recycling site commenced operation in January 2008, has the capacity to disassemble and recycle 15,000 devices and 500,000 cartridges per year, and aims to achieve recycling rates of more than 96 percent for devices and 99 percent for cartridges by the end of March 2009.
Where I would love to see Fuji take this a step further would be to not only use this facility to recylce content, but to use it as a facility that could refurbish products, and/ or reuse old product to construct new products as well.
It is something not specifically addressed in the article, but going down that patch is the subject of my next Sustainable Manufacturing article for Supply Chain Asia, and it is my hope that there are plans for this.
The facility is already dismantling the product, the products are largely cmposted of comodity / platic parts, and while there may be a little wear and tear, that could easily be overcome with a new coat of paint.
