Brother Industries, Ltd. has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hardcopy Remanufacturing 2025 Vendor Assessment.
This IDC MarketScape evaluates hardcopy vendors that provide remanufactured devices and/or consumables to the worldwide marketplace, positioning them into four categories -Leaders, Major Players, Contenders, and Participants. Brother was recognized for strengths in knowledge base and resources; ecodesign, dual toner and ink offerings, ample capacity and sustainability.
According to the IDC MarketScape report, “Brother is currently the only hardware manufacturer to have a fully certified remanufacturing program for both its inkjet and toner consumables.”
Since 2004, Brother has remanufactured and recycled over 40 million cartridges globally. In 2024, the company expanded into inkjet cartridge remanufacturing in Europe, applying its reuse-first design approach.
“Every cartridge we remanufacture meets the same standards as a new one but with a lower environmental impact,” said Juan Carot, Senior Project Manager at Brother’s UK facility in Ruabon. “We believe this IDC MarketScape recognition reflects our continued investment in scalable, high-quality remanufacturing.”
Brother Industries (U.K.) Ltd.’s Circular Technology Centre is the Brother Group’s core facility that recycles toner cartridges and designs and develops recyclable toner cartridges in collaboration with facilities in the US and Japan. A project is underway to build a system for automating the recycling process. With support from the Circular Technology Centre, Brother Industries (Slovakia) s.r.o. (BISK) recycles Brother’s toner cartridges that are sold primarily in Europe. BISK’s accomplishments and development expertise are shared in Japan, the US, and other countries to help raise the technological standards of the Brother Group.
Brother Group’s environmental vision, as outlined in its Brother Group Environmental Vision 2050, aims to maximise resource circulation within the entire Group toward 2050 to ensure the sustainable use of resources and minimise the environmental impact due to wastes. The vision also sets a target to reduce the amount of virgin materials used in products by 25% by FY2030 compared to the FY2022 level.
Furthermore, the Brother Group has identified promoting sustainable use of resources as one of its materiality, aiming to reduce virgin material usage per unit of sales revenue by 16.9% compared to the FY2022 level by FY2027. Going forward, we will continue to actively engage in environmentally conscious initiatives.
IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilises a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.
