Lumber production in Canada decreased 14.9% from March to 4 074.0 thousand m3 in April. Production was down 6.1% from April 2022, reports Statistics Canada. Sawmills shipped 3 935.0 thousand m3 of lumber in April, down 8.2% from March and down 7.9% from April 2022. According to Analytics, in April 2023, Canada decreased exports of lumber to the United States by 4.4% year-on-year. Supplies to China increased by 54.9%, […]
Tag Archives: japan paper
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Jul
Jul
Valmet has on July 7, 2023, entered into an agreement to acquire Körber Group’s Business Area Tissue. The Business Area Tissue specializes in innovative converting and packaging technologies and services for the tissue industry. By combining the complementary offering and competencies of Valmet and the acquired business, Valmet creates the market’s widest technology, automation and […]
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Feb
Feb
Nippon Paper Industries has decided its Australian consolidated subsidiary Paper Australia Pty Ltd (“Opal”) will withdraw from the graphic paper business at the Maryvale Mill due to the recent suspension of timber harvesting in Victoria’s state forests. Opal manufactures and sells paperboard, kraft paper, graphic paper, corrugated board, and folding cartons in Australia and New […]
09
Feb
Feb
Nippon Paper Industries, Sumitomo Corporation and Green Earth Institute (“GEI”) agreed to begin trilateral consideration of the first commercial production of cellulosic bioethanol from woody biomass in Japan and its development into bio-chemical products. Bioethanol is currently attracting attention in countries worldwide striving for carbon-neutral societies as a renewable energy source and as feedstock for […]
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Jan
Jan
Sodra Wood, which is a Sweden’s largest forest owners association and an international forest industry group, will expand supplying lumber to Japan of 90,000 m3 as a total volume in a year or two years. About 60,000 m3 of 90,000 m3 will be JAS (Japanese Agricultural Standards) lumber. The company got a certification of JAS […]
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Nov
Nov
Rengo Co., Ltd. announces that it has begun construction of its Ehime Toon Plant in Japan. Rengo’s Matsuyama Plant has operated as a corrugated board and boxes manufacturing base in Shikoku since 1960. However, a portion of its land has been expropriated to cooperate with the Matsuyama Outer Ring Road airport line improvement project. As […]
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Nov
Nov
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. has announced a 15-25% price increase for both its printing & writing paper and business communication paper in Japan. The revised price is effective for shipments on and after the 1st of February 2023. “Despite our productivity and cost-cutting initiatives, we are not able to continue to absorb this combination […]
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Nov
Nov
Rengo Co., Ltd. announces that it completed renovation work on the biomass incineration plant at Amagasaki mill in Japan. Amagasaki mill produces paperboard such as containerboard. Rengo has been working to reduce city gas consumption by utilizing sludge discharged in the papermaking process as biomass fuel. By increasing the efficiency of the incineration plant, Rengo expects […]
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Oct
Oct
Rengo announces that it has acquired 100% of the shares issued by Marufuku Co., Ltd., making Marufuku a Rengo subsidiary. Marufuku primarily manufactures and sells folding cartons and flexible packaging for confectionary and food products as travel souvenirs. It has strengths in its ability to plan and propose complete packaging solutions from outer boxes (decorative […]
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Nov
Nov
In 2020, the largest share of exports of paper from Japan was shipped to China, making up around 21 percent. Asian countries were the major destinations for paper exports from Japan. In recent years, Japan was the third largest paper manufacturing country in the world.
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