Brother Industries (U.K.) certified as Group’s first carbon neutral manufacturing facility.
Brother Industries, Ltd. announced that its manufacturing subsidiary Brother Industries (U.K.) LTD. has been certified as a carbon neutral company based on the standard of the British Standards Institution BSI PAS 2060:2014 Standard.
This is the first carbon neutral company certification among the manufacturing facilities of the Brother Group.
Brother Industries (U.K.) is a manufacturing subsidiary of Brother Industries located in Wrexham, Wales of the United Kingdom. Established in 1985 for the production of typewriters, it is now the core of the Brother Group’s recycling function for toner cartridges, which are consumables for printers and All-in-Ones. It also functions as a factory that contributes toward resource circulation, such as extracting plastic parts from used printers, All-in-Ones, and consumables and using them in new products.
Brother Industries (U.K.) has promoted energy-saving activities within its factory and office and reduced CO2 emissions by switching some company vehicles to hybrid vehicles. In addition, the company has undertaken other efforts such as the purchase of CO2-free electricity which does not generate CO2 during power generation. Furthermore, by using carbon credits to offset the remaining emissions, its Scopes 1 and 2 CO2 emissions were assessed to have met the PAS 2060 standard.
Under the “Brother Group Environmental Vision 2050”, the Brother Group seeks to further strengthen both its environmental initiatives and its environmental investments with the aim to achieve carbon neutrality in its business operations and minimise CO2 emissions from the entire value chain by FY2050.
Brother said that the Group will continue to work as one to further strengthen globally its initiatives to help society develop in a sustainable manner.
