New | Fuji Xerox to ramp up ‘green’ services in bid to help Hong Kong offices reduce carbon footprint

Fuji Xerox, one of the world’s largest suppliers of office copiers and printers, plans to ratchet up its information technology services business in Hong Kong as more companies eye increased efficiency with new “green” office processes.

“We expect the ratio of our services business to total revenue in the city to reach 50 per cent this year, and further grow next year,” Fuji Xerox (Hong Kong) managing director Herbert Hui said.

Hui said the company was focused on enabling more companies in the city to help reduce their carbon footprint through initiatives like managed printing services, energy tracking systems and recycling of office printers.

Since 2013, some of the big guns of the office automation industry have targeted Hong Kong’s 300,000 small and medium-sized enterprises, which make up about 98 per cent of business establishments in the city, with packaged hardware, software and services.

According to the Hong Kong General Chamber of Small and Medium Business, the availability of various offerings from the big office-automation brands was helpful for SMEs to make comparisons of relevant solutions they would not otherwise know about.

Fuji Xerox, a joint venture that is 75 per cent-owned by Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings and 25 per cent by United States-based Xerox, launched this week its sustainability management service, which provides a customised online “dashboard’ for companies to measure and analyse their consumption of energy and paper.