Remanufacturing Industries Council

What Remanufacturing Industries Council does

The Remanufacturing Industries Council (RIC) is a non-profit trade association founded in 1993 and headquartered in West Henrietta, New York, near Rochester. It serves as the recognized industry association for the U.S. remanufacturing sector, convening OEMs, remanufacturers, suppliers, and academic stakeholders. Its core technical offering is the ANSI/RIC001.1-2016 standard, which establishes formal definitions and processes for remanufacturing and positions RIC as the industry's standards authority. The organization has 11-50 employees and operates as a member-driven body that has accumulated over three decades of institutional credibility in a niche industrial segment.

RIC's business model is membership-based, generating revenue from member dues, conference programming, and sponsorship. Members gain access to standards development, working groups, networking events, and the annual conference, which was relocated to Detroit in 2025 to broaden access to the U.S. manufacturing corridor. The organization derives additional strategic value from partnerships with Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the REMADE Institute, anchoring it within the broader research and workforce ecosystem for remanufacturing and circular manufacturing.

In October 2025, RIC unveiled a new strategic plan alongside a committee restructuring that consolidated its internal committees from six to three, and launched a new membership model aimed at broadening participation across the remanufacturing value chain. These moves indicate an active modernization agenda, shifting RIC's posture from a narrow standards body toward a more expansive convener and ecosystem participant for the circular manufacturing economy.

Name

Remanufacturing Industries Council

Legal name

Remanufacturing Industries Council

Website

https://remancouncil.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Remanufacturing Industries Council is a non-profit trade association founded in 1993 that serves as the recognized standards body and industry convener for the U.S. remanufacturing sector, stewarding the ANSI/RIC001.1-2016 standard and serving OEMs, remanufacturers, and suppliers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industry Trade Association Services

NAICS

Professional Organizations (813920)

SIC

Special Industry Machinery, Nec (3559)

akta.pro primary industry

Engines (Diesel/Gasoline/Natural Gas) Rebuild & Remanufacturing (TLAKALAA)

Keywords

• Remanufacturing standards
• Industry trade association
• Circular economy advocacy
• Remanufacturing conference
• Sustainable manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Rochester

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Remanufacturing Industries Council (RIC) is a non-profit trade association founded in 1993 and headquartered in West Henrietta, New York, dedicated exclusively to advancing the remanufacturing industry. RIC develops industry standards (such as ANSI/RIC001.1-2016), hosts the annual RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference, and provides advocacy, networking, and educational resources to its member organizations involved in remanufacturing.

Product overview

The Remanufacturing Industries Council (RIC) is an industry association that provides a platform for remanufacturers to collaborate, develops infrastructure, information, and tools, and educates members, stakeholders, and industry-at-large for the advancement of the remanufacturing industry. Rather than a single unified product, RIC's portfolio consists of programs and services organized around three pillars: Collaborate, Advocate, and Educate. Key offerings include the RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference (annual global event), Reman Standards (standards development including ANSI/RIC001.1-2016), Reman Day (awareness initiative), the RIC Distinguished Service Award (annual recognition), Reman 101 (foundational education), RIC Webinar Series (sector-specific educational webinars), a Member Directory (searchable by industry sector), and a Newsletter subscription service. RIC's mission is to unify and champion the remanufacturing industry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference: Annual conference bringing together remanufacturing leaders, innovators, and professionals for learning, networking, and collaboration.
• Reman Day
• RIC Distinguished Service Award
• Reman Standards
• Remanufacturing Association Alliance

Products and services

• RIC Industry Membership
• ANSI/RIC001.1-2016 Remanufacturing Standard
• RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference

Segments11 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) - Golisano Institute for SustainabilitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizer of the annual RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference. RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability partners with RIC on research, education, and industry advancement in remanufacturing. The conference brings together leaders from across the globe for three days of learning, networking, and collaboration.
• REMADE InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a member organization under University/Research category. The REMADE Institute enables early stage applied R&D of technologies to reduce embodied energy and carbon emissions in materials production and processing, with focus on reuse, recycle, remanufacture and reuse.
• Ozarks Technical Community CollegeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a member organization under University/Research category with Friend of Industry Membership status.
• UT DallasminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a member organization under University/Research category.
• Remanufacturing Association AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRIC leads this alliance which promotes collaboration across partner remanufacturing associations. Jeff Stukenborg serves as Chair of the Remanufacturing Association Alliance, bringing together leaders from various remanufacturing associations to discuss workforce development, regulation, supply chains, and awareness.

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Broad incumbents

• National Association of Manufacturers: NAM is the largest U.S. manufacturing trade association, representing the full breadth of the sector including remanufacturing activity. It is comparable as a much larger industry-voice organization that overlaps with RIC's advocacy and policy engagement but operates at the broad-manufacturing level rather than the remanufacturing specialty.
• National Waste & Recycling Association: NWRA represents the waste and recycling services industry with policy, education, and events programming that overlaps with circular-economy and material-recovery themes central to RIC. Comparable as a member-based trade association with similar dues-funded economics serving an adjacent circular-economy vertical.
• Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries: ISRI is the Voice of the Recycling Industry, covering adjacent circular-economy and material-recovery activities that precede or follow remanufacturing. Comparable as a trade association operating in the broader circular-economy space with overlapping policy, advocacy, and conference programming relevant to RIC's circular-economy positioning.
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers: ASME develops widely adopted industrial standards (similar to RIC's ANSI/RIC001.1-2016) and supports engineering professional development. Comparable as a mature standards-developing organization whose model of consensus-based industry standards and continuing-education offerings parallels RIC's standards and Reman 101 programs.

Direct peers

• REMADE Institute: REMADE is a public-private partnership enabling applied R&D in reuse, recycle, and remanufacture technologies, and is itself an RIC member. Highly comparable as an organization whose mission — reducing embodied energy and carbon emissions through remanufacturing — directly aligns with RIC's industry-advancement agenda.
• Association of Equipment Manufacturers: AEM represents equipment manufacturers and has direct overlap with RIC's Heavy Duty Equipment and Machinery remanufacturing member segments. Comparable as a trade association providing advocacy, statistics, and events for an overlapping industrial manufacturer base that increasingly engages on remanufacturing and circular-economy topics.
• Precision Machined Products Association: PMPA is a trade association serving precision machined parts manufacturers, a key adjacency to RIC's Machinery remanufacturing segment. Comparable as an industry trade body providing standards, education, networking, and advocacy for a manufacturing sub-vertical closely tied to remanufacturing supply chains.
• Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association: MEMA is the largest U.S. trade association for motor vehicle and equipment suppliers, including significant remanufacturing activity across automotive and heavy-duty segments. It is directly comparable to RIC in serving as an industry-voice organization for related remanufacturing verticals and in engaging on standards, advocacy, and member education.

Emerging players

• Ellen MacArthur Foundation: EMF is a leading global circular-economy thought leader and convening organization, with remanufacturing as a key program pillar. Comparable as an emerging institutional voice shaping the same circular-economy narrative that RIC champions, though operating at higher policy visibility and with broader international reach.

Others

• Circularity Gap Reporting Initiative: CGR is an organization producing data and reports on circular-economy performance globally, including remanufacturing metrics. Comparable thematically as an ecosystem participant advancing the same circular-economy policy framework that underpins RIC's advocacy, though it operates more as a data/research entity than a member association.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

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