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Brother Named Leader in IDC Remanufacturing Assessment

Brother Industries, Ltd. has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hardcopy Remanufacturing 2025 Vendor Assessment.

This IDC MarketScape evaluates hardcopy vendors that provide remanufactured devices and/or consumables to the worldwide marketplace, positioning them into four categories – Leaders, Major Players, Contenders, and Participants. The Japanese technology giant was recognised for strengths in knowledge base and resources, ecodesign, dual toner and ink offerings, ample capacity, and sustainability.

According to the report, Brother is currently the only hardware manufacturer to have a fully certified remanufacturing programme for both its inkjet and toner consumables.

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Since 2004, Brother has remanufactured and recycled over 40 million cartridges globally. In 2024, the company expanded into inkjet cartridge remanufacturing in Europe, applying its reuse-first design approach. “Every cartridge we remanufacture meets the same standards as a new one but with a lower environmental impact,” says Juan Carot, Senior Project Manager at Brother’s UK facility in Ruabon. “We believe this IDC MarketScape recognition reflects our continued investment in scalable, high-quality remanufacturing.”

Brother Industries (U.K.) Ltd.’s Recycling Technology Centre in Wrexham, North Wales, is Brother Group’s core facility that recycles toner cartridges and designs and develops recyclable toner cartridges in collaboration with facilities in the US and Japan. A project is underway to build a system for automating the recycling process. With support from the Recycling Technology Centre, Brother Industries (Slovakia) s.r.o. (BISK) recycles Brother’s toner cartridges that are sold primarily in Europe. BISK’s accomplishments and development expertise are shared in Japan, the US, and other countries to help raise the technological standards of the group.

The Brother Group Environmental Vision 2050 aims to maximise resource circulation within the group towards 2050 to ensure the sustainable use of resources and minimise the environmental impact due to wastes. The vision also sets a target to reduce the amount of virgin materials used in products by 25% by FY 2030 compared to the FY 2022 level.

Furthermore, Brother has identified promoting sustainable use of resources as one of its materiality, aiming to reduce virgin material usage per unit of sales revenue by 16.9% compared to the FY 2022 level by FY 2027. Going forward, the company aims to continue to actively engage in environmentally conscious initiatives.

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