01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Kyocera earns BLI Awards Kyocera has been honoured by Keypoint Intelligence with the 2025-27 Most Reliable A3 Brand Award as well as two 2025 Pick Awards for the TASKalfa MA3500ci and ECOSYS MA4000cix. The 2025-27 Most Reliable A3 Brand Award was presented following five years of rigorous testing of the company’s full A3 range. In a controlled, conditioned lab environment, Kyocera A3 devices consistently demonstrated exceptional reliability, achieving high volumes of impressions with remarkably low misfeed rates and no service calls. The two Pick Awards honour the TASKalfa MA3500ci and ECOSYS MA4000cix for their faster-than-average job streams and first‑print‑out time, as well as above‑average scan speeds, searchable PDF accuracy, and image quality. Kozo Teramoto, Senior General Manager of Sales & Marketing at Kyocera Document Solutions Europe, said: “The reliability of our technology has been put to the test and shown that our devices can withstand and thrive under immense workloads and pressure. Maintaining quality over a long lifecycle is at the heart of our way of doing business, as these awards reflect.” www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.co.uk Resource recycling Canon will begin using recycled steel material (electric furnace steel sheets) in some printing products, including office multifunction devices, home inkjet printers, large-format inkjet printers and commercial printing presses, that will be released in 2025. Going forward, the company will gradually increase the number of products utilising recycled steel. Steel is the second most used material by weight in Canon’s printing products, following plastic. The company has studied the characteristics of electric furnace steel sheets (recycled materials produced in an electric furnace from steel scrap that has been collected from used products) and optimised the processing method so that they could be used in products. CO2 emissions from the production of electric furnace steel sheets are about one-fifth of those from blast furnace steel sheets – common steel materials made from iron ore – and its use reduces the input of new resources and increases the resource recycling rate. Currently, Canon Ecology Industry Co., Ltd., one of Canon’s group companies, finely separates steel scrap from collected used office MFDs and sells the refined steel scrap to Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Steel), an electric furnace steelmaker. The total amount of collected steel scrap provided to Tokyo Steel from April 2020 to March 2024 was more than 5,000 tons. Canon will supply steel scrap to Tokyo Steel, and in turn use the electric furnace steel sheets produced by Tokyo Steel to develop, design, and manufacture more sustainable products thereby promoting the recycling and effective use of limited resources. The company has set targets of 20% for 2025 and 50% for 2030, after recording a value of around 16% in fiscal 2022. www.canon.co.uk Ricoh Europe signs pledge Ricoh Europe CEO Nicola Downing has signed the Working with Cancer pledge – an initiative designed to build a supportive work environment for those who are battling cancer and other chronic diseases and serious illnesses requiring specific medical care. It also extends to employees who are providing cancer care to loved ones, while raising awareness of these challenges across the wider workplace. With an overall aim of abolishing the stigma and insecurity that exists for people with cancer in the workplace, the pledge rallies companies around the world, to provide a supportive and recovery-forward culture at work for all employees impacted by cancer. Ricoh’s commitment to signing this pledge not only demonstrates the importance of raising awareness around these serious diseases and illnesses but also its commitment to continue the open dialogue surrounding this inside of its organisation. Downing said: “As a people-first organisation, we recognise the profound impact that cancer and other chronic diseases and illnesses can have on individuals as well as their families, and their work lives. As such, to reinforce our commitment to our people, we pledge to support our employees, colleagues, and community members who are affected by such serious diseases and illnesses.” To further reinforce its dedication to joining this movement, Ricoh Europe has already set out the following commitments as part of this pledge which include applying discretion to the sick pay of any colleagues unable to work due to a diagnosis of cancer so they have assurance and security and therefore can focus on their treatment and recovery and to continue to provide flexible working arrangements to ensure well-being and recovery are prioritised. The company has also pledged to support all Ricoh employees in a primary caregiver role, to allow them to balance their roles at work and as a caregiver in line with the company’s flexible working policies. www.ricoh-europe.com Joint venture details confirmed FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. and Konica Minolta, Inc. have announced an establishment date of January 31 for their joint venture. In addition, the name of the joint venture company has been decided to be Global Procurement Partners Corp. www.fujifilm.com, www.konicaminolta.com Nicola Downing Recycled steel used in Canon products (prior to processing)
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