Canon Unveils New Eco Technology Park

Sourced from Wirth Consulting

Canon Inc. and Canon Ecology Industry of Tokyo, Japan have opened the new Canon Eco Technology Park, which will serve to showcase the environmental activities of the Canon Group, and also featuring a plant for recycling and remanufacturing used toner and ink cartridges, as well as used the office-imaging equipment. The center is located in Bando City, Ibaraki Prefecture, approximately 85 km north of Tokyo.

According to the OEM, the new Eco Technology Park aims to reduce waste and make effective use of limited resources, including a showroom and a cutting-edge plant dedicated to re-use and recycling.

Canon states that the working environment inside the plant has been developed under the concept of “clean and silent”, which has taken employees’ ease-of-work into consideration. The plant building is designed to save energy and has taken into account the building’s impact on the environment.

Additionally, as the focal point of the Canon Group’s environmental activities, the Canon Eco Technology Park has established a plant field trip course, so the facility can be used as a place where such school students can learn about the environment.

Canon says it aims to realize its “Action for Green” environmental vision: “a society that promotes both enriched lifestyles and the global environment”. It strives to reduce burdens on the environment throughout the entire product life-cycle — Produce, Use, Recycle. In this vision, it has set a goal of 3-percent improvement per year in the life cycle of CO₂ emissions improvement index on each product.