Remanufacturing and the circle economy

A recent post by Joe Laur explains how a closed loop supply chain can help economy by reducing waste. A short excerpt:

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Xerox has been designing copiers to be disassembled, remanufactured, and recycled for years and gains over $400 million in annual direct-to-the-bottom-line savings from utilizing recovered components.

BMW and other automakers have found a compelling harvest of economic value in taking back automobiles at the end of their lifetime and designing them so that whole portions, such as dash panels and doors, can be recovered and re-used easily, as has Pratt and Whitney in the remanufacturing of aircraft engines


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