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RICOH ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

115,000 printing machines collected annually from across Japan

The RICOH Eco Business Development Center extends over an area of about 100,000 m2 in Gotemba City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The center serves as a central hub for the reuse & recycling business, and a total of 115,000 printing machines recovered from across Japan are delivered annually.

The recovered printing machines are sorted by a robot system that was developed in-house. After being sorted in accordance with their condition, the machines are automatically transferred to the next phase within the reuse process. Following a number of procedures, 15,000 units are shipped out as refurbished products, and those that are unsuitable for refurbishing are recycled for their parts.

The RICOH Eco Business Development Center previously served as a production base for printing machines and was positioned as a mother factory. A mother factory is a factory that serves as a production base that also provides support behind the scenes in terms of logistics, technological development and production management upon a business expanding domestically or abroad. However, following the reorganization of its global production functions, Ricoh closed this mother factory in 2013.

Reusing and recycling products is a costly business. At that time, Deguchi was in charge of the reuse & recycling business. He planned on improving the operational efficiency of the business by consolidating the reuse & recycling bases that were spread across 10 locations in Japan into one that would specialize in the reuse of products.