Nippon Paper Industries
Japanese paper company
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Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (日本製紙グループ株式会社, Nihon Seishi Gurūpu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese paper manufacturing company. The company's stock is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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| Company type | Public (K.K) |
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| TYO: 3863 | |
| Industry | Pulp and paper |
| Founded | August 1, 1949 |
| Headquarters | 4-6, Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101–0062, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Yoshio Haga, (CEO and President) |
| Products |
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| Revenue |  $ 10.905 billion USD (FY 2012)
(¥ 1,025 billion JPY) (FY 2012) |
| $ 113.319 million USD (FY 2012)
(¥ 10.652 billion JPY) (FY 2012) | |
Number of employees | 13,052 (consolidated ) (as of March 31, 2013) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
As of April 2013 the company has 33 subsidiaries and 11 associate companies.
It is listed as one of the world's top 10 pulp and paper industry companies year-over-year and in 2012 it was sixth in the aforementioned list.[3]
History
- 1949 - Jujo Paper Co., Ltd. is founded
- 1968 - Jujo Paper merges with Tohoku Pulp Co., Ltd.
- 1972 - Sanyo Pulp (established in 1946) merged with Kokusaku Pulp (established in 1938) into Sanyo-Kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd.
- 1993 - Upon merger of Jujo Paper Co., Ltd. and Sanyo-Kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd., the company is renamed to Nippon Paper Industries
- 2001 - Nippon Unipac Holding is formed by the merger of Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. and Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (established in 1938)[4]
- 2003 - Both companies' paperboard divisions are merged to form Nippon Daishowa Paperboard
- 2004 - Nippon Unipac Holding is renamed to Nippon Paper Group, Inc.
- 2009 - Acquired Australian Paper for $700 million.[5]
- 2013 - Nippon Paper Group, Inc. merged with Nippon Paper Industries and started operation as Nippon Paper Industries.
- 2016 - Nippon Paper has agreed to buy the world's third largest liquids packaging board business from U.S. timber company Weyerhaeuser.[6]
