G&G’s Parent Company Releases 2025 ESG Report

G&G’s Parent Company Releases 2025 ESG Report

Founded in 2000 and operating across 170+ countries, G&G (ggimage.com) is a globally recognised leader in compatible and remanufactured printer consumables. Today, G&G announces the release of the 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report by its parent company, Ninestar Corporation, now renamed Pantum Technology. This marks the group’s fifth consecutive annual ESG disclosure—and by far the most ambitious to date.

For procurement professionals, sustainability committees, and anyone who has ever wondered whether a compatible cartridge can genuinely be a responsible choice, this report offers an answer grounded not in aspiration, but in audited data. The short version: it can. Compatible printing can be sustainable printing. And this report shows exactly how.

The World Doesn’t Need More Cartridges. It Needs Better Ones.

There is something quietly radical about the compatible consumables business. Every remanufactured toner cartridge that reaches a customer’s printer represents a cartridge that was not made from scratch — no virgin plastics extracted, no new toner synthesised from raw petrochemicals. The environmental advantage is not a marketing position. It is structural.

In 2025, G&G’s parent company reported RMB 7.592 billion in revenue from clean technology products, representing 46% of total sales. That figure matters because it signals something beyond compliance: sustainability has become the commercial core of the business, not a footnote to it. Reinforcing this, the group’s MSCI ESG rating was upgraded from A to AA in October 2025 — the fourth consecutive annual upgrade since receiving a B rating in 2022, assessed independently by an agency with no interest in the outcome.

17.9 Million Cartridges Given a Second Life

Perhaps no single figure better captures G&G’s contribution to the circular economy: in 2025, approximately 17,923,003 units of used ink cartridges, toner cartridges, and related consumables were collected and recycled through G&G’s global programs. Seventeen million cartridges that did not go to landfill — diverted through systems that G&G has been building and refining for years.

What makes G&G’s compatible cartridge recycling model distinctive is its openness. The program accepts cartridges of all major brands and models. For enterprise clients, this removes a common barrier: you do not need to standardize your entire fleet around one brand to participate in a meaningful end-of-life program. Your existing cartridges, whatever their origin, have a responsible destination.

Every recycling vendor undergoes annual qualification audits — 63 vendors were assessed in 2025 alone — to ensure that responsible sourcing means exactly that, from the first cartridge collected to the last gram of material recovered.

A landmark milestone this year: G&G’s ink cartridge remanufacturing factory in Székesfehérvár, Hungary commenced trial operations, establishing a Europe-localised closed-loop recycling system with an annual production capacity of up to 6 million remanufactured units. In a regulatory environment shaped by the CSRD and tightening extended producer responsibility frameworks, being able to point to a locally grounded remanufacturing loop is increasingly valuable — not just environmentally, but in terms of supply chain ESG disclosure and procurement credibility. The circular economy works best when it is also a local one.

Helping Enterprise Clients Meet Their Scope 3 Targets

For procurement teams building Scope 3 emissions inventories, printing consumables sit squarely within Category 1: Purchased Goods and Services — historically one of the harder categories to quantify, because suppliers rarely provided the necessary data. G&G’s parent company is changing that.

The 2025 ESG disclosures provide enterprise clients with independently verified data points for direct use in Scope 3 calculations and supplier ESG assessments:

• Energy consumption per remanufactured toner cartridge: 0.305 kWh/unit — reflecting the inherent efficiency advantage of remanufacturing over virgin production
• RoHS compliance: 45,414 product models meeting Europe’s most stringent hazardous substance restrictions
• REACH compliance: 44,503 product models independently tested against the world’s most comprehensive chemicals regulation
• Renewable energy: 22,435,380 kWh of photovoltaic power generated in 2025 — a 109% increase year-on-year — directly reducing the carbon footprint of every cartridge manufactured

Green Supply Chain Transparency

A product’s environmental story begins long before it reaches a warehouse. G&G’s parent company conducted 1,685 supplier assessments in 2025, spanning Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 of the supply chain. ESG performance is evaluated as a core criterion alongside quality and delivery, with dedicated audit dimensions covering hazardous waste management, conflict minerals compliance, social responsibility, and labour practices.

On conflict minerals — critical for enterprise clients with their own supply chain human rights obligations — 672 suppliers have signed formal non-use commitments, with 482 completing related training. The underlying principle is straightforward: the communities living near mineral extraction sites deserve the same consideration as the customers using the finished products.

In November 2025, G&G was recognised as the industry’s first and only “Five-Star Green Supply Chain Management Demonstration Unit” by the Zhuhai Printing Equipment and Consumables Industry Association — reflecting not a single initiative, but a systematic approach to responsible sourcing built over many years.

Beyond the Business: Planting Trees, Stocking Shelves

A company’s character is revealed not only in its supply chain audits, but in what it chooses to do when no one is requiring it to do anything.

Since 2014, the group has funded desertification control in Inner Mongolia’s Ulan Buh Desert. In 2025 alone, 560 mu of desert land was rehabilitated and 47,000 saxaul trees planted — bringing cumulative totals to approximately 76,000 trees and 1,140 mu of stabilised land. These are not forests planted for carbon credits. They are ecosystems restored in one of the world’s most fragile landscapes, year after year, without fanfare.

Meanwhile, G&G’s “Love Reading” program has established 1,051 reading corners across classrooms in Henan Province, stocking them with 85,951 books and reaching approximately 33,000 students with resources their schools could not otherwise afford. It is a small intervention in the lives of children who will never know the name of the company that put those books on their shelves — and that, perhaps, is exactly the point.

The group’s total community investment in 2025 reached RMB 10.45 million, reflecting a genuine belief that a company’s responsibilities extend well beyond its shareholders.

The Cartridge in Your Printer Has a Story. This Is Ours.

Every cartridge that ships under the G&G name carries with it a chain of decisions — about materials, about manufacturing energy, about what happens when the ink runs out. The 2025 ESG Report is G&G’s most detailed account yet of those decisions: the recycling systems keeping 17.9 million cartridges out of landfill, the solar energy powering the factories, and the communities supported along the way.

For enterprise procurement teams, the report provides the data infrastructure needed to make responsible sourcing decisions with confidence — MSCI AA-rated, independently audited, and aligned with the frameworks that regulators and investors increasingly require. For everyone else, it is the story of a company that has chosen to treat compatible printing and sustainable printing not as opposing ideas, but the same one.

The full 2025 ESG Report is available at www.ggimage.com/ESG.

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