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News Release from: Xerox | Subject: EA Toner
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 September 2007
Xerox's Toner Production Now Meets
Colour Growth
The first emulsion aggregation toner - EA Toner - plant in the USA has been opened by Xerox and is now filling 20 miles of pipe and stainless steel tanks with billions of particles for its EA toner.
The new US$60 million facility is the latest Xerox development to support the growth of colour pages in the digital printing market, whilst being environmentally responsible, claimed the company Xerox added that last year alone more than 30 billion colour pages were printed on Xerox devices
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 18 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Developed by Xerox and protected by more than 300 patents, EA toner is claimed to produce sharper images using less toner per page and it is already used in a dozen Xerox products, such as Workcentre multi-function devices that print, copy, scan and fax, as well as the Docucolor series of colour printers.
The five-story 100,000 square-foot plant near Rochester, New York State will be staffed by more than 40 chemical engineers and increases Xerox's capacity for toner made by the EA process by 175 per cent, said the company.
Xerox added that in addition to producing better quality prints, EA Toner is more environmentally friendly.
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Unlike traditional toner, which is created by grinding composite polymeric materials to micron-sized particles, EA toner is chemically grown enabling the size, shape and structure of the particles to be controlled.
As a result, EA Toner is said to foster improved print quality, less toner usage, waste and lower energy requirements for manufacturing and for printing.
Until today, EA Toner was developed exclusively at the Zerox's start-up production facility in Mississauga, Ontario (Canada) which is attached to Xerox Research Centre Canada, where the toner was first developed.
The new EA Toner plant, opened today in Webster, is claimed to be one of the company's 'smartest' manufacturing facilities and is part of Xerox's commitment to reduce its overall greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent by 2012.
Richard Schmachtenberg, Xerox's vice president of the consumables development and manufacturing group, commented: "Xerox is the world's largest manufacturer of toner, so we need to do it efficiently.
The plant is designed for energy efficiency and is packed with more than 4,000 sensors that track information about temperature, humidity, air flow and other variables." The plant is also organised in to zones that can be separately controlled for the most efficient operation.
Depending upon the process being run, zones can be shut off when not needed, saving energy costs.
Xerox said that 6,000 employees currently work at the company's 1,100 acre campus, known as the Joseph C Wilson Technology Centre.
In addition to manufacturing its production level printers, the centre is a research and development location.
Wim Appelo, vice president of Xerox Strategic Services, said: "We could have chosen to build this new plant anywhere in the world but we're taking advantage of the strong manufacturing and engineering competencies that exist in Monroe County.
It's an investment in the community and in our people and symbolic of our continuing initiative to make our Webster facility a model showcase.".
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