PRINTITRESELLER.UK 39 VOX POP refurbished, reused, and recycled with minimal effort. The combination of eco‑design, reliability, and high performance technology enables our devices to have a service life of 7+ years and even a second or third product cycle. The benefits - resources are preserved, less material needs to be manufactured, reprocessed, recycled, or disposed of, and our partners, customers, and we achieve a more positive environmental balance. With the introduction of our new A3 devices, the 9-Series, we have significantly increased the postmultifunction devices rigorously in test labs to ensure their durability, output quality, and scanning performance even under adverse conditions. In the usage phase, we ensure low energy consumption thanks to sleep and toner save mode as well as energy-saving Unison Toner. High-yield cartridge toners help save toner too, and we minimise paper consumption through automatic duplex printing and managed print services. Besides EPEAT and Energy Star, almost 100% of our devices are awarded the Blue Angel, one of the world’s strictest environmental labels, and thus certified for low energy consumption, low emissions, and longevity. When it comes to the end of (one) life for our printing devices, the hardware is designed in such a way that the components used can be repaired, PrintIT Reseller: How circular is your manufacturing? For example, are component parts designed to be recycled, re-used or built to last longer, and what percentage of post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic content is included in new devices? Arjan Paulussen, Managing Director, UK, Western Europe & South Africa, Lexmark: We pursue a holistic approach when it comes to the circular economy – sustainability in the design, usage and the end-of-life or rather remanufacturing phase. It is as early as in our print devices’ R&D phase that our ‘Intentional Engineering’ approach, a strategy of deliberate longevity, comes into play. The core housing of our devices is made of robust steel frames, and during development, we test our printers and A new series of reports published following the four-year NICER (National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Research) programme, the UK’s largest circular economy programme, find that the pace of the transition towards increased circularity needs to increase – especially if net zero targets are to be met. PrintIT Reseller invited the industry’s leading OEMs to explain the steps they are taking to support a circular economy Transitioning to a circular economy – part one continued... Arjan Paulussen
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