Fujifilm Establishes a New "Closed Loop" Recycling Mechanism for Waste Aluminum

Fujifilm Co., Ltd. will start the "closed-loop" recycling and recycling program for scrap aluminum in October 2011. The aluminum is the main raw material for the company's offset printing plate "CTP/PS", mainly printed companies and newspapers. Use it. Through cooperation with printing companies, newspapers, aluminum recycling companies, alloy manufacturing plants, rolling mills, etc., we continue to promote this recycling and recycling program and achieve a significant reduction in environmental impact.

In order to ensure the printability, water retention, and contamination resistance of the offset printing plate “CTP/PS”, high purity aluminum is used to ensure good printing performance. Therefore, a completely new aluminum ingot has traditionally been used. However, to create new aluminum ingots requires new resources and a lot of energy, which will have a greater impact on the environment.

Fujifilm established a "closed-loop" recycling and recycling system for waste aluminum in 2007 to ensure that test samples and waste generated during the production process are not recycled or reused as waste aluminum. In the suppression of recycling, reuse of impurities in the recycling process, production and supply of high-quality "CTP / PS version", has accumulated a large number of "closed-loop" recycling, recycling of the outstanding performance.

This time, in order to further reduce the impact on the environment, Fujifilm has established a new closed-loop recycling mechanism for “CTP/PS” used mainly by printing companies and newspapers. Specifically, in the group companies, FR Co., Ltd., which promotes this recycling program, recycles the used CTP plate manufactured by the company through an aluminum recycling company (*3) that deals with printing companies and newspapers. /PS version." Then, the partner alloy factory will re-produce the used “CTP/PS” version, and then use the regenerated aluminum ingot by the rolling mill to process the “CTP/PS version”. High-purity aluminum coils. Fujifilm will use the high-purity aluminum coil as a raw material at the Yoshida South Plant to produce a high-quality “CTP/PS version”.

Through this new recycling mechanism, recycled aluminum is put into the production process. From the production of aluminum ingots to the production of “CTP/PS plates”, the amount of carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced compared to the use of new aluminum ingots. Carbon dioxide emissions up to 63% (*1).

This time, in order to further expand this recycling program, Fujifilm will provide the company's original environmental label “PLATE to PLATE logo” to the printing company and newspaper company according to the ISO 14021 environmental labeling international standard (Type II environmental labeling). Businesses participate in this event. In the future, companies participating in the plan will have the effect of effectively using resources and reducing environmental impact by displaying the logo on the printed matter.

In the future, Fujifilm will take the lead in adopting various measures, actively committing to the popularization of environmental protection printing, including improving the quality of recycling and reuse of resources and preventing global warming, etc., to make the 21st century a low carbon economy, environmental protection and sustainable development of the earth. contribution.