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TOKYO, July 24 Asia Pulse - Oji Paper Co. (TSE:3861), Japan's largest paper manufacturer, said Sunday that it will launch a tender offer for No. 6 firm Hokuetsu Paper Mills [...]

BEIJING, Dec 3 Asia Pulse - China's paper making industry is expected to enjoy much better performance in 2010, along with the recovery of national economy. Since the beginning of [...]

(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) (BW)(ASIA-PULP-AND-PAPER) The Rise of China's `Paper Industry' - APP Report Highlights the Increasing Global Prominence of China's Paper Industry and Its Environmental [...]

HANOI, July 23 Asia Pulse - Vietnam's paper industry has not built one new modern paper production mill in the past 20 years, leaving the domestic paper sector in a [...]

HCM CITY Dec 8 Asia Pulse - The State should create favourable policies to encourage the collection of used paper in an aim to build a Vietnamese recycling industry, paper [...]

HANOI, Dec 7 Asia Pulse - An international conference on paper recycling was held in Vietnam's capital city of Hanoi on December 4 in an effort to seek opportunities to [...]

BEIJING, Oct 20 Asia Pulse - China is expected to change its paper industry development policies and stop encouraging the production of paper and paperboard products, according to He Yanli, [...]

HANOI, Sept 8 Asia Pulse - Vietnam's government has sharply reduced the import tax on paper by 7 to 12 per cent, depending on the paper type. Under Decision No71/2008/QD-BTC [...]

BEIJING, April 28 Asia Pulse - China's art paper industry is facing export challenges, as the EU, following the US, has recently started an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation on Chinese [...]

TOKYO, Aug 1 Asia Pulse - The stock market is earnestly waiting to see the next move by Oji Paper Co. (TSE:3861), which has announced that it will make a [...]

TOKYO, Jan 22 Asia Pulse - There was an implicit understanding among pulp and paper companies that everyone was lying about their recycled-paper content, Chuetsu Pulp & Paper Co. (TSE:3877) [...]

TOKYO, Feb 15 Asia Pulse - Japan-based Nippon Paper Group Inc. (TSE:3893) has developed a new type of A2 coated paper that is glossy and brilliantly white. Coating papers to [...]

HANOI, May 26 Asia Pulse - The Vietnam Paper and Pulp Association (VPPA) has forecast production and consumption of paper this year will be higher than last year, despite the [...]

HANOI, Jan 25 Asia Pulse - Vietnam's paper industry projects to produce 1.13 million tonnes of paper and 905,000 tonnes of pulp this year, according to the Vietnam Paper Association. [...]

BEIJING, April 9 Asia Pulse - Investment strategy reports for the second quarter newly released by securities research institutes in China widely favor stocks of the domestic paper-making industry, largely [...]

HANOI, Jan 27 Asia Pulse - The Vietnam's paper industry targets to produce 600,000 tonnes of pulp and 1.4 million tonnes of paper per year by 2010, according to the [...]

TOKYO, Dec 12 Asia Pulse - Three private paper makers have begun services to recycle waste paper for companies and local governments. Oji Paper Co. (TSE:3861) has launched a trial [...]

TOKYO, July 12 Asia Pulse - In a move that will team up Japan's sixth- and seventh-largest paper manufacturers, Mitsubishi Paper Mills Ltd. (TSE:3864) and Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. (TSE:3865) [...]

TOKYO, Oct 14 Asia Pulse - Nippon Paper Group Inc. (TSE:3893) member Nippon Paper Industries Co. has developed a new type of craft paper for the bags used to hold [...]

OSAKA, Aug 31 Asia Pulse - Japanese firms Nippon Paper Group Inc. (TSE:3893) and Rengo Co. (TSE:3941) plan to integrate production of cardboard around next spring and reduce annual output [...]

TOKYO, May 28 Asia Pulse - Group operating profits at four of Japan's five major paper manufacturers doubled for the year ended March, while Mitsubishi Paper Mills Ltd. (3864) returned [...]

(Full text of statement. Contact details below.) MEDIA RELEASE PR43594 PPI Asia Expands Coverage of Domestic Pulp and Paper Prices in China SHANGHAI, Mar. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- RISI, the [...]

OSAKA, Nov 21 Asia Pulse - In a move that could shake up the nation's paper industry, Nippon Paper Group Inc. (TSE:3893), Rengo Co. (TSE:3941) and general trading house Sumitomo [...]

HANOI, Oct 11 Asia Pulse - High input costs have adversely affected the competitiveness of the domestic paper industry, said Vo Si Dong, general director of the Vietnam Paper Corporation. [...]

(Full text of statement. Contact details below.) MEDIA RELEASE PR40260 International Paper Finalizes Purchase of SCA Packaging Asia Business MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 1 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Strengthens International Paper's Industrial Packaging [...]

HANOI, May 19 Asia Pulse - The price of paper materials have soared in the last few months, causing difficulties for businesses operating in the Vietnamese paper industry. General secretary [...]

HANOI, Jan 15 Asia Pulse - Vietnam's paper industry expects to overcome last year's obstacles and achieve a growth in production of 10 per cent this year, says Vietnam Pulp [...]

BEIJING, Nov 7 Asia Pulse - China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has decided to reevaluate the necessity of maintaining anti-dumping duties imposed four years ago on coated art paper imported [...]

(Full text of statement. Contact details below.) MEDIA RELEASE PR44338 International Paper Names Cecilia Ho President, IP Asia MEMPHIS, Tenn., Apr. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- International Paper (NYSE: IP) today [...]

NEW DELHI, April 1 Asia Pulse - US-based International Paper on Tuesday said it has entered into agreements with the owners of India-based Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills (APPM, BSE:502330) to [...]

TOKYO, Feb 28 Asia Pulse - Mitsubishi Paper Mills Ltd. (TSE:3864) said Friday that it will buy the specialty paper business of Kohjin Co., a 100 per cent unit of [...]

TOKYO, Dec 5 Asia Pulse - With the prospect of a near-term industry reorganization sparking a hasty retreat, investors are quickly losing interest in paper companies' stocks. Hokuetsu Paper Mills [...]

TOKYO, Aug 14 Asia Pulse - Oji Paper Co. (TSE:3861) President Kazuhisa Shinoda admitted Friday that the tender offer bid for Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. (TSE:3865) was less likely to [...]

(Full text of a statement. Contact details below.) (BW)(FINETEX-TECHNOLOGY) Awa Paper and Finetex Technology Jointly Develop a High Performance Nano Filter Media Automotive Writers/High-Tech Editors SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE) - [...]

HANOI, Sept 1 Asia Pulse - The Vietnam Paper and Pulp Association (VPPA) has asked the Finance Ministry to eliminate the tariff on printing paper imports from ASEAN countries. The [...]

TOKYO, Jan 25 Asia Pulse - Japan's Nippon Paper Group Inc. (TSE:3893) has developed high performance thermal paper for portable printers used in printing receipts and labels. The specially treated [...]

TOKYO, Jan 31 Asia Pulse - With the recycled-paper scandal driving investors away, pulp and paper producers need to get moving again on realignment in order to regain their confidence. [...]

(Full text of statement. Contact details below.) MEDIA RELEASE PR39130 Li Hongxin of Shandong Sun Paper Wins RISI's Asian CEO of the Year Award SHANGHAI, April 14 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- RISI, [...]

TOKYO, Dec 2 Asia Pulse - Oji Paper Co. (TSE:3861) will expand sales of paper that can be easily molded for uses including food containers. The firm changed the composition [...]

TOKYO, July 14 Asia Pulse - Japan's Oji Paper Co. (TSE:3861) will raise prices for printing, copy and craft paper as well as for cardboard, by at least 10 per [...]

JAKARTA, July 3 Asia Pulse - PT Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Tbk (JSX:INKP) and PT Tjiwi Kimia Tbk, which both belong to the Sinarmas Group, are currently preparing to [...]

TASHKENT, Sept 3 Asia Pulse - The Government of Uzbekistan hopes attract up to US$30 million in investments to modernize the country's paper industry in 2010-2011. The government has approved [...]

HO CHI MINH CITY, May 10 Asia Pulse - Vietnam's paper manufacturers have increased prices by 15 per cent because the price of pulp, the main raw material for making [...]

HANOI, Feb. 2 Asia Pulse - Thai-Japanese joint venture Vina Kraft Paper began operating its mill in Binh Duong Province last week. The paper mill, which the owners claim is [...]

HANOI, Feb 1 Asia Pulse - Increasing investment in Vietnam is part of the Thai Siam Cement Group's (SCG) strategy to expand its business activities, said Chaovalit Ekabut, President of [...]

TOKYO, May 26 Asia Pulse - The six major pulp and paper companies expect their fiscal 2005 results to be affected by higher fuel and raw materials costs and lower [...]

TOKYO, Nov 22 Asia Pulse - Nippon Paper Group Inc. (TSE:3893) announced Wednesday a business alliance with Taiwan's Yuen Foong Yu Paper Mfg. Co. involving the Japanese firm's supplying its [...]

DHAKA, March 9 Asia Pulse - Bangladesh Paper Mills Association (BPMA) on Sunday urged the government to waive import duty on the raw materials for paper industries. BPMA convener Mostafa [...]

DUBAI, Sept 21 Asia Pulse - The Middle East's annual consumption of paper will increase to 29 million tons by 2020, from 18 million tons in 2010, according to Asia [...]

COLOMBO, Aug 9 Asia Pulse - Perth Engineering, an Australia based firm, will invest 600 million rupees (US$5.5 million) to revive a defunct state-run paper mill in Embilipitiya, secretary to [...]