came out just two weeks ago! It's very exciting to finally being able to share all the knowledge I gathered through years of research and consulting. It's now on sale on amazon.com. This is a brief excerpt from the book:, I provide a framework to guide companies in planning their closed loop supply chains and offer cases from industry. I walk them through a business model resulted from extensive data analysis and scientific research and give business model examples from Fortune-100 companies. Managers will find the relationship between brand capital, intellectual property and assets, and the decision to outsource intriguing. Cases conducted at companies such as Bosch, HP and Xerox provide various learning opportunities.
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. 
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
cartridges 
can save you and your company money and help environment
a bit too.
's green efforts through remanfacturing, reuse and recycle. Good information on how much Xerox diverted from landfills and how much Xerox achieved to reuse products and components. This document also involves a brief overview of the brilliant tools they use for diagnosing returned products' condition.
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can help the UK meet its climate change targets. It shows that making better use of our natural resources could contribute as much as 10% of the target reduction in UK domestic GHG 
emissions.
, Servicisation and Reman & Repair as strategies whose potential exceeds that of waste reduction, recycling 
and lean manufacturing by a factor of four.New "super coating" hints at how smart materials, nanotechnology will influence future design of office and production products
Tasked with developing ways to extend the lifespan of printer components - and reduce their impact on the environment - a group of scientists at Xerox Corporation have developed a new chemical armour that protects photoreceptors, the light-sensitive elements in xerographic machines.
Protected from normal wear and tear, a photoreceptor coated with the new "armour" can survive more than one million revolutions - nearly doubling its usable life. "The long life of the photoreceptor reduces the need for replacement cartridges, enabling a 33 percent reduction in waste," said Yonn Rasmussen, Vice President of the Xerographic Component Systems Group. "Customers experience less down time, and therefore reduced interruptions to work flow, improved productivity, and fewer service calls."
The new photoreceptor works in the standard machine design with no additional hardware changes or added costs to the customer. This invention has broad applicability across Xerox's product portfolio and is being first implemented in the Xerox 4112™/4127™ light production monochrome printers.
Photoreceptors are multi-layer thin film devices that convert light into electrostatic images. They must be replaced periodically due to surface wear and scratches that can affect image quality.
"This novel long life overcoat is an example of cutting-edge chemistry at work that required both materials and process innovation," said Giuseppa DiPaola-Baranyi, laboratory manager for Materials Integration at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada. "The ultimate goal is to develop photoreceptors that will last the entire life of the machine. For example, when you scratch your hand and you heal, that's a biological process. We are looking at how to mimic nature and leverage our expertise in smart materials design and nanotechnology to create molecules for next-generation photoreceptors with self-healing capabilities."
A global, multi-disciplinary team from the Xerox Research Centre of Canada, the Xerographic Component Systems Group engineering team in Webster, N.Y. and the manufacturing team in Venray, The Netherlands, advanced the project from the pilot plant stage in Canada to production in Venray in less than one year, a record time for commercializing a new technology such as this.
Remanufacturing industry leaders in April 2001 agreed to form an alliance that would cross the lines of industry sectors to promote, protect and advance the entire remanufacturing industry. They created the Remanufacturing Industries Council (RIC), a coalition between individual companies, trade associations and interested government and academic organizations.
RIC VISION
Remanufacturing, "the ultimate form of recycling," will become a household word, known for its contributions to the environment and the economy
All remanufacturers will have access to state-of-the-art technologies and evaluation methods
An industry-wide network will effectively protect and advance the interests of remanufacturers everywhere.
initiatives and an interview with Xerox's CTO Sophie Vandebroek. Xerox, with its remanufacturing operations, has always been one of my favorite companies that I worked on. This article tells us about Xerox's seemingly counterintuitive R&D projects and products when you look at short-term gains. These products -disappearing ink, cartridgeless solid ink, etc...- may all be hits in the future when you consider the environmental impact and the green brand capital they can build and transform into market value. 
bought 50% of ReGen Technologies, a remanufacturing company specializing on remanufacturing of farm equipment and engines. Basically, ReGen was founded in 1998 to remanufacture engines for John Deere products in the United States and Canada. 
will create 350 jobs through remanufacturing in Glendale.