Pulp and Paper Mills in Japan (31)

Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd. owns five mills, namely, Suzukawa, Yoshinaga, Imaizumi, Fuji, in Shizuoka prefecture and Shiraoi in Hokkaido.Shiraoi mill, located at Shiraoi-cho in South Hokkaido, has started its operation since 1960, now it is the largest and newest mill in our company.The mill is about 40 kliometers far to the north east of Muroran Port, from which imported wood chips (Douglas fir, Eucalyptus) and 70% of its products are transported.Paper & paperboard mill has 6 paper machines (daily capacity 1, 230 tons), 3 paperboard machines (daily capacity 320 tons), 2 off coaters (daily capacity 16 tons) and its products are newsprint, printing and writing paper, diazo sensitive paperstock, business form paper, coated paper, linerboard, coated white board and others.Pulp mill has 2 KP continuous digesters, 5 KP batch digesters, 3 BKP plants, 3 grinders, RGP plant, A-CGP plant, DIP plant and 2 pulpers for old corrugated containers pulping. The mill area is about 1, 340, 000m2 and the employees are about 1, 200.