Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (日本製紙グループ株式会社) 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)