Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific Receives Green Luminary Award 2016

Applauded for Distinctive Contribution to Asian Economy with Green Practices

SINGAPORE, April 5, 2016 – Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific announced the winning of the Channel NewsAsia (CNA) Green Luminary Award 2016. The Award recognizes Fuji Xerox, among major companies in 40 Asian countries/region, for its excellence in employing green practices throughout its business value-chain, through the development of energy-saving and environmental-friendly solutions and services.

Yaz Kuroha, general manager, Management Quality Office of Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd, received the award on behalf of the company at the Luminary Awards 2016 dinner on March 30, 2016 at the Fullerton Hotel, Singapore. The event was graced by Special Guest Minister S Iswaran, the minister for Trade and Industry. There were over 230 guests from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan attending the event.

“Environmental consciousness is one of the ten Shared Values set forth by Fuji Xerox and commonly held by all the group companies and our employees,” said Kuroha on receiving the award. “This prestigious award has validated Fuji Xerox’s commitment and efforts toward how we approach our business as members of society and individuals built upon a fundamental respect for humanity. This award encourages us to take on the next level in raising the bar in environmental sustainability and achieve our 2020 target to reduce 30% C02 emission across our product whole-life-cycle from 2005 baseline.”

The Luminary Awards selection is a rigorous eight-month process comprising selection, nomination and evaluation. Recognizing the growing role of environmental sustainability in driving business success, the Green Luminary Award is bestowed upon Fuji Xerox for being an outstanding Asian leader in utilizing green practices in its main business practice. A long-term advocate of eco-excellence, Fuji Xerox believes in contributing actively towards environmental conservation activities carried out by its customers and the society through its products and business activities. Placing harmony with the environment as its top business priority, the company extensively promotes the reduction of the environmental burden in each part of its business process including purchasing of parts, production, sales and distribution, as well as within the offices of its customers. Recognizing growing concerns worldwide, the company has added a fourth goal, that of preserving ecosystems and biodiversity.

A leading English-language Asian TV news channel based in Singapore, CNA is running the Channel NewsAsia Luminary Awards for the sixth year, to recognize the best business minds in Asia, as well as to inspire and motivate the business community and industrialists to achieve excellence in their respective fields. Besides the Green Luminary Award, the other three Award winners include notebook maker, ASUSTek Computer Inc for the Innovation Luminary Award, ride-sharing app Grab for the Future Business Luminary Award and Dr Jeffrey Cheah, chairman and founder, Sunway Group for the Lifetime Achievement Luminary Award.

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Fuji Xerox establishes Innovation Office, a New Research Organization in Singapore

Accelerates Research by Virtually Connecting Japan, Singapore and Silicon Valley to Provide Solutions and Services That Meet Global Needs

 Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. announces the establishment of a research organization in Singapore—the Innovation Office—beginning full-scale operation on October 1. As Fuji Xerox’s new research base of the Asia-Pacific region, the Innovation Office aims to quickly correspond to global customer needs collaborating with Fuji Xerox’s existing two research facilities—Japan’s Fuji Xerox R&D Square in Yokohama and FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc. in the United States—by conducting research activities with a mid- to long-term perspective in aims of commercializing them as Fuji Xerox’s solutions and services.

With an aim to ultimately deliver technologies that resolve customers’ business challenges, the Innovation Office will create new values by verifying Fuji Xerox’s technologies—including its latest technologies under research—through working closely with customers and partner companies in the Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan. Following the verification, Fuji Xerox researchers and technical staff in Japan who are specialized in areas such as image processing and text analysis will be assigned accordingly to commercialize those values by developing specific solutions/services to offer to customers.

Further, Fuji Xerox will create a virtual showcase, which is a three-dimensional (3D) modeling of some of the research activities taking place at Fuji Xerox’s R&D locations in Japan, the United States and Singapore. Visitors at the three locations can view the latest researches being conducted under a long-term perspective at FX Palo Alto Laboratory, such as Multimedia Processing and Computer-human Interaction Technology, as well as global case studies reflecting the localities of the Asia-Pacific region including Japan and Singapore. The virtual showcase is created incorporating Fuji Xerox’s multimedia technology ^{Note 1} and remote communications technology ^{Note 2}, allowing its customers and research staff working remotely in Japan, Silicon Valley and Singapore to jointly experience the technology and verify its values, as if they are working in the same room.  

“We are pleased that Fuji Xerox has chosen Singapore to establish its new research hub, the Innovation Office,” says Mr. Beng Kong Pee, director of Electronics at the Singapore Economic Development Board ^{Note 3}. “By being in Singapore, Fuji Xerox’s Innovation Office will be able to leverage on our multi-disciplinary R&D environment and diverse talent pool to co-create solutions with the large base of clients and partners headquartered here.”

To date, Fuji Xerox has promoted R&D focusing on solving customers’ business challenges at its main R&D site in Japan, Fuji Xerox R&D Square, while working closely with FX Palo Alto Laboratory that conducts advanced researches in the innovative climate of the Silicon Valley.

Now with the establishment of the Innovation Office in Singapore—which is not only a geographical center of the Asia-Pacific region but also a leading country in terms of commercial distribution, logistics and latest technological research activities—, Fuji Xerox will enhance its R&D structure by incorporating (1) a global perspective to tackle customers’ challenges, (2) latest technologies and (3) business models, to further accelerate its solutions and services business.

Note 1:       Technology that enables, for example, images and videos of the real world to be built into a virtual three dimensional world. Another example is to enable a real sensed information to be reflected onto a model.

Note 2:       Technology that enables several locations to be connected with a remote conferencing system via web interface. 

Note 3:       Singapore's lead government agency for planning and executing strategies to enhance Singapore’s position as a global business center.https://www.edb.gov.sg/content/edb/en.html

The Speaker 

The speaker for the press event was Michael Chong, General Manager, Fuji Xerox Innovation Office.  As part of the global Fuji Xerox organization comprising R&D and technology management centres in Japan and in the US, Michael will lead Fuji Xerox's drive for innovation and customer value creation from and within the rapidly growing Asia Pacific Markets.  Michael has spent more than 20 years in the telecommunications and infocomm technology businesses, He has extensive professional and management experience in roles ranging from product management, business development, strategic planning, new emerging businesses to corporate venture capital and innovation program management. 

Michael holds a Bachelor's degree with Honours in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and has attended the Executive Development Program at The Wharton School, Unviersity of Pennsylvania. 

Michael is based in Singapore, the regional headquarters for Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific.

During the presentation, a slide showing the word "Genko-Itchi" in Japanese. Michael explained that Fuji Xerox adhered to Genko Itchi principle which means to match words to deeds and actions. 

About Fuji Xerox

Founded in 1962, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. is a leading company in the Document Services & Communications field, offering solutions and services to help customers resolve their business challenges. Underlying our solutions and services are our world-class office multifunction devices, printers and production printers that we develop and manufacture for worldwide distribution.

Together with cloud and mobile solutions, Fuji Xerox builds a communications environment that enable our customers to access the right information, at the right time, and in the right form—thereby contributing to their valuable communications. Fuji Xerox is a 75-25 joint venture between FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation and Xerox Corporation, and its direct sales force covers Japan and the Asia-Pacific region including China. We employ approximately 45,000 people globally, with more than 80 domestic and overseas affiliates / sales subsidiaries.

http://www.fujixerox.com

About FX Palo Alto LaboratoryFX Palo Alto Laboratory is a leading multimedia research lab established in California, the United States by Fuji Xerox in 1995, conducting long-term research in the Document Services & Communications domain. Its research expertise is in the areas of multimedia, human computer interaction, and information systems. FX Palo Alto Laboratory inherits the innovative culture and far-sighted technological background of Fuji Xerox and honors that tradition by fostering an open and collaborative environment of intellectual exchange. Researchers of FX Palo Alto Laboratory are from diverse professional and academic backgrounds and unite their expertise on multi-disciplinary projects. http://www.fxpal.com/

Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific Establishes Regional Solution Centre to Deliver Greater Solutions-Centric Value

Integrates Resources to Leverage Wide Knowledge Base and Capability for Speedier Delivery of Solutions

SINGAPORE, September 30, 2015 – To meet the needs of the growing IT market in Asia Pacific, which is catalyzed by the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community and the expanding China market, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific announced today the launch of the Regional Solution Centre in Singapore by integrating key regional operations and aligning functions from research and development (R&D) to customer service. The center will cater to businesses’ emerging need for industry-specific solutions and cloud-based IT infrastructures. The globally integrated center will help to accelerate the move towards increasingly global, borderless operations by capturing market opportunities and maintaining Fuji Xerox’s distinction in the Asia Pacific market.

The center will offer value to Asia Pacific customers through the best of its knowledge on local business environments and needs as well as expertise and resources to develop leading-edge solutions, while the integration of resources at the center will allow global expertise to be applied to solutions development and delivery within the shortest turnaround time. By tailoring solutions for both emerging and high-growth markets, the center will establish a common framework to deliver a consistent Fuji Xerox experience for all customers. In addition, the center will collaborate with the R&D departments responsible for solutions and services in Fuji Xerox of Japan to provide insights to solution needs in the Asia Pacific region, and shape product roadmaps. This collaboration will complement Fuji Xerox R&D expertise with the continuously-evolving local market knowledge, thereby enabling Fuji Xerox to provide value to customers that meet their needs.

“The Regional Solution Centre will be vital in enabling Fuji Xerox to nimbly develop solutions to meet the changing needs and fast moving pace of the Asia Pacific market,” says Leon O’Reilly, general manager, Regional Solution Centre, Marketing, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific. 

“The center will be a catalyst for pulling together years of rich expertise to meet customers’ changing needs. We will drive the development of our solutions business by bringing a cohesive regional approach to our clients and delivering excellent solutions that fit with our clients’ current and future needs.”

The center will focus on the following areas:

1. Build consistent offerings by gathering market insights and visualizing how new solutions work for businesses

1. Provide regional pre-sales with expertise skillset and ensuring quality of delivery to meet customers’ expectations

1. Regional center of excellence for software development activities, ensuring the application of the best methods and processes to solutions development and delivery

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Fuji Xerox Opens Up A Dazzling World of Creative Possibilities with Color 1000i Press

Fuji Xerox introduces Colour 1000i Press which is the industry’s first xerographic production press to offer both metallic Gold and Silver Dry Inks. It will be available in the Asia Pacific region including China. It is aim at high end professional printing market.

The new Gold and Silver Dry Inks are developed by applying Fuji Xerox Emulsion Aggregation (EA) technology. Originally, the ellipsoid-shaped inks, with flat reflective pigments were completely covered by toner particles. By orientating the reflective pigment particles in parallel to the print media, it allows the reflective pigments to reflect light after the image is fused onto the media, thereby achieving a metallic appearance. In addition, the reflective pigments do not allow light to pass through, and enabling metallic printing on various media. With these new Dry Inks, what has been conventionally achieved using offset print can now be delivered through a single production printer, which improves workflows for print companies and thus contribute to the expansion of business with increase printing applications with the God and Silver Dry Inks. 

The Compere and the Speakers

Compere

Takashi Nawata, Senior General Manager of Marketing, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific. He sets marketing directions, solutions and services and also other marketing initiatives.

Yamazaki Toru, General Manager, Production Go-To-Market, Marketing, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific. He leads the Production Business and the Graphic Communications Group in strategic directions, driving sales and marketing initiatives.

Daniel Kwintner, Director, Ingenious Design Pte Ltd. Daniel gave a talk about design challenges and why is product packaging important.

Opening Dance

At the opening, a short dance was executed by a China dancer using umbrella. Interestingly, both the Gold and Silver umbrella were featured to remind us of the Gold and Silver Dry Inks.

Sample Prints

Fuji Xerox, founded in 1962, is a leading company in the Document Services and Communication field. It provides solution and services to help customers resolves their business challenges. The company is a 75-25 joint venture between Fujifilm Holdings Corporation and Xerox Corporation.

Demonstration

To Summarise, Color 1000i Press allows

1.      Fine-tuning of digital prints and digital profit potential.

2.      Boost productivity and achieve accurate, fast and consistent colour.

3.      Help customers to be more creative with a choice of Specialty Dry Inks.

4.      Precision engineering built for client applications.

5.      Outstanding results with prefect finish.

6.      Business to keep moving ahead.

At the end of the event, we were treated to a Media Appreciation Lunch and Chinese New Year Lo-Hei.

In conclusion, the new Fuji Xerox Color 1000i Press, should benefit companies in term of creativity, workflow, time and money. This is a relatively significant improvement to the printing industry.