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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.

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]
  • 2026 – Longview, Washington implosion: On May 26, a white liquor tank at Nippon Paper’s Longview, Washington paper mill suffered an implosion and rupture with 11 fatalities and multiple injuries.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ “Nippon Paper Industries Annual Report 2013” (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on February 7, 2019. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
  2. ^ “Nippon Paper Industries Company Summary”. Google Finance. Archived from the original on April 11, 2025. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  3. ^ “Global Forest, Paper & Packaging Industry Survey 2013 edition – survey of 2012 results” (PDF). PricewaterhouseCoopers. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 13, 2019. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
  4. ^ “The establishment of Nippon Unipac Holdings” (PDF). March 30, 2001. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 20, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  5. ^ Ian McIlwraith (February 17, 2009). “Nippon buys Maryvale mill”. The Age. Archived from the original on June 20, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  6. ^ “Nippon Paper to buy Weyerhaeuser drinks carton business”. The Japan Times. June 16, 2016. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  7. ^ “Deaths confirmed, others missing after chemical implosion at facility in SW Washington”. KATU. 26 May 2026. Archived from the original on 26 May 2026. Retrieved 26 May 2026.
  8. ^ “Names released of all 11 workers killed in Longview paper mill chemical spill”. KPTV. 31 May 2026. Retrieved 31 May 2026.