Every piece of Fuji Xerox equipment, from multifunction office devices to high volume production presses is designed with the environment in mind, enabling our customers to feel confident that they are working with an environmentally responsible business partner. Our parent company’s environmental initiatives start from the design stage of product development, where we incorporate technologies that:

• Eliminate the need to use hazardous material such as lead-based solder;
• Enable low energy consumption during use of the machine;
• Utilise innovative and energy efficient toner and ink technologies;
• Minimise the use of new resources; and
• Will later facilitate the remanufacture or recycling of used machines and parts.

During product design a series of policies that will later support remanufacturing and recycling are applied. These policies allow for the disassembly of standardised, long-life parts and the use of high-rigidity materials that can be easily recycled. This creates the right conditions for efficient management throughout the product life cycle and end-of-life product recycling.

EA-Eco Toner

Fuji Xerox has further improved its Emulsion Aggregation (EA) toner and developed an even more energy efficient ‘EA-Eco toner’, which can be fused to paper at a temperature more than 20°C lower than conventional EA toner, resulting in up to a 40 percent reduction in power consumption during fusion. Toner fusion is the most power–intensive process in document devices, accounting for 50 to 80 percent of total power consumed. New Products employing EA–Eco toner, are achieving power savings of 15 to 30 percent.

Our associate company Xerox Corporation first developed EA toner in 2001 and since then, Fuji Xerox has been progressively employing EA toner in new office and production equipment. The manufacturing process differs from pulverised toners in that the toner particles are grown in an emulsion rather than being crushed, making it possible to cut manufacturing carbon emissions by 35 percent. Using this process the shape of the particles can also be controlled with greater precision, enabling images to be more efficiently transferred to paper, reducing the amount of toner used by close to 40 percent.

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  Xerox ’s Emulsion Aggregation Toner – An Environmentally Friendly Technology

  Xerox's Emulsion Aggregation (EA) Toner Technology represents a breakthrough in the chemistry and chemical processing of preparing toner materials. It is a unique, environmentally friendly technology that allows customers to print in color more accurately and affordably. There are over 400 patents protecting this Xerox innovation.