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TOKYO -- Chuetsu Pulp & Paper and Mitsubishi Paper Mills yesterday dropped a plan to merge after failing to agree on how to realign their sales and distribution networks. The [...]

(From Jiji) Tokyo, Dec. 1 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Paper Group Inc. , Japan's second largest paper maker, and Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. , the fifth largest, announced Friday that they have [...]

TOKYO -- Oji Paper's hostile takeover bid for Hokuetsu Paper Mills, its smaller rival, jolted Japan's clubby paper industry out of its summer slumber, marking the first time a Japanese [...]

TOKYO -- The drama surrounding Japan's first hostile bid by a blue-chip company escalated yesterday when Nippon Paper entered the fray, buying a stake in the target company, Hokuetsu Paper [...]

STOCKHOLM -- The world's largest paper makers yesterday warned that higher raw material costs would continue to hurt profitability even though demand is rising and will lead, in Europe, to [...]

As creditors worldwide begin to close in on Asia Pulp and Paper Company, the debt-ridden forest products leader in non-Japan Asia, another group of predators is circling. Global paper industry [...]

NEW YORK -- International Paper, the world's largest forestry products producer, beat market expectations with a first-quarter profit after aggressive cost-cutting helped the US company reverse its year-earlier loss. The [...]

TOKYO -- Hokuetsu Paper Mills, the target of Japan's first blue-chip takeover battle, said yesterday that it would form an alliance with Nippon Paper, the country's second-largest manufacturer, in a [...]

(From Jiji) Tokyo, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Paper Group Inc. said Thursday it plans to acquire almost 10 pct of Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. in terms of voting rights, in [...]

Manufacturers see it as an opportunity to offset cost increases Buoyed by the school season demand for printing and writing paper, mills are set to hike prices. But in the [...]

Paper is a sensitive ecological and political issue. It is easy to see why: paper consumes trees, which absorb carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, which contributes to global [...]

(From Jiji) Nagaoka, Niigata Pref., Aug. 18 (Jiji Press)--In his two-day trip to Niigata Prefecture through Friday, Oji Paper Co. President Kazuhisa Shinoda failed to win support for his company's [...]

(From Jiji) Tokyo, Aug. 23 (Jiji Press)--The prospects for Oji Paper Co. acquiring Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. look increasingly dim, as major Hokuetsu Paper shareholders do not support Oji's takeover [...]

(From The Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri) Nippon Paper to block Oji's Hokuetsu bid Yomiuri Nippon Paper Group Inc. announced Thursday it would purchase a significant amount of Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. [...]

NEW YORK and STOCKHOLM -- International Paper, the world's second-largest private landowner, plans to rip apart one-third of its business in an effort to escape from being squeezed between rising [...]

STOCKHOLM -- UPM-Kymmene, the world's third-largest paper maker, said yesterday an increase in print advertising in both Europe and the US will allow it to push through its first major [...]

SHENZHEN, June 12, SinoCast -- Ningxia Meili Paper Industry Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 000815), one of China's major paper makers based in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, yesterday saud that it had [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: BETSY BLANEY International Paper Co., the world's largest paper maker, will sell its coated paper business to CMP Holdings LLC, an affiliate of the investment firm [...]

CLEARING MISCONCEPTION To a question ai 1/2oeHow many of you use a Tablet, e-Readers or any electronic medium?ai 1/2i 1/2 some dozen hands go up in the seminar hall packed [...]

Pakistan, a potential 2-lakh-tonne market, may free all paper varieties by year-end Indian paper mills are set to benefit from Pakistan freeing imports from India. Following the recent permission to [...]

(From Jiji) Tokyo, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Paper Group Inc. said Thursday it plans to acquire almost 10 pct of Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. in terms of voting rights in [...]

from BUSINESS LINE, March 27, 2011 Chennai, March 26 - Amaravathi Sri Venkatesa Paper Mills (ASVPM), one of the largest paper mills based on recycled paper, is diversifying into packaging [...]

from BUSINESS LINE, February 05, 2011 Chennai, Feb. 4 - Seshasayee Paper and Boards (SPB) has acquired a newly commissioned paper mill involving a total investment of Rs 250 crore. [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: ANJAN SUNDARAM Stora Enso Oyj, one of the world's largest paper makers, said Tuesday it will buy International Paper Inc.'s coated publication paper business in Brazil [...]

COPENHAGEN -- The labour conflict that has paralysed Finland's paper industry for almost six weeks deepened yesterday when a trade union representing 24,000 locked out workers rejected a state-mediated settlement [...]

Nippon Paper, Daishowa plan management tie-up Yomiuri Nippon Paper Industries Co. and Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co. are in the final stage of negotiations to set up a holding company to [...]

JK Paper Ltd will soon roll out new high-end products such as pigmented office paper and corrugated paper. The company recently added a new colour to the domestic paper industry [...]

MELBOURNE, Oct 10 AAP - Nippon Paper will build a $90 million waste paper recycling plant at Maryvale in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, creating about 140 construction jobs and 14 new [...]

(From Jiji) Tokyo, Nov. 20 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Paper Group Inc. , Rengo Co. and Sumitomo Corp. said Monday they have reached a basic agreement on a three-way capital and business [...]

from BUSINESS LINE, March 17, 2010 Ahmedabad, March 16 - The focus of the paper industry globally is tilting towards recycled paper and the Indian players are not far behind, [...]

TORONTO -- Weyerhaeuser, the US forest products group, has agreed to merge its fine-paper business withMontreal-based Domtar, underscoring the North American paper industry's struggle against the impact of the internet [...]

TOKYO -- Oji Paper's unprecedented hostile takeover attempt on Hokuetsu Paper Mills took a new twist yesterday after Daio Paper, Japan's third-largest paper maker, said a union of the two [...]

TOKYO -- Hokuetsu Paper Mills yesterday was poised to become the first major Japanese company to usea poison-pill defence after it rejected an unsolicited Dollars 1.2bn offer from Oji Paper, [...]

If you've flown all the way to Tokyo, what could be a better souvenir to take back on the long flight home than something light, compact and easy to carry, [...]

Annual profits at DS Smith, the maker of recycled paper products and owner of Spicers, the office product wholesaler, jumped 40 per cent on rising demand for paper packaging in [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: TALES AZZONI International Paper Co., the world's largest paper maker, will sell its coated paper business to CMP Holdings LLC, an affiliate of the investment firm [...]

Nippon Paper Industries Co. and Daishowa Paper Mfg. Co. are in the final stage of negotiations to set up a holding company to integrate management operations in April 2001, informed [...]

from BUSINESS LINE, October 07, 2010 Coimbatore, Oct. 6 - The Coimbatore-based Servalakshmi Paper Ltd, part of the Servall Group of Paper Mills, Coimbatore, which is involved in the manufacture [...]

BEIJING -- Beijing has criticised a US move to impose duties on China's glossy paper exports and, in the latest sign of trade friction between the two countries, demanded that [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: JARI TANNER Stora Enso Oyj, one of the world's largest paper makers, said Tuesday it will buy International Paper Inc.'s coated publication paper business in Brazil [...]

JOHANNESBURG -- Sappi, the South African paper and pulp producer, yesterday said it had bought the coated fine paper assets of Potlatch, the US forest products company, for Dollars 480m [...]

from BUSINESS LINE, September 26, 2010 Ahmedabad, Sept. 25 - Rainbow Papers Ltd plans to invest Rs 750 crore in the next two to three years to emerge the largest [...]

from BUSINESS LINE, June 27, 2010 Hyderabad, June 26 - What started as a pilot project of the Paperboards and Speciality Papers Division of ITC Ltd, in the form of [...]

from BUSINESS LINE, April 01, 2010 Chennai, March 31 - Waste paper prices continue to soar on short supply as recycling picks up across the globe. Pushed by the need [...]

(From Jiji) Tokyo, Oct. 27 (Jiji Press)--Daio Paper Corp. said Friday it has acquired shares in Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. , as part of a move apparently designed to better [...]

TOKYO -- Hokuetsu Paper Mills has accused local rival Oji Paper of bullying and trying tostifle competition in thelatest twist of Japan's first blue-chip takeover battle. In a report submitted [...]

(From Jiji) Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Paper Group Inc. , which is aiming to block Oji Paper Co.'s hostile bid to take over Hokuetsu Paper Mills Ltd. , bought [...]

Paper and packaging It says a lot about the pace of consolidation in the paper industry that the markets should get so excited about a report that the world's two [...]

THE country needs between 800 and 1,000 more waste paper collection centres to recycle the volume of paper now being generated by Malaysians. Today, there are 80 waste paper collection [...]

Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd will diversify its product base with a new tissue paper manufacturing line at a cost of Rs 200 crore. The Industries Minister, Mr S.P. [...]