Nippon Paper Industries

The Nippon Paper Group, Inc. (Japanese株式会社 日本製紙 グループ 本社, Kabushiki - gaisha Nippon Seishi Gurūpu Honsha ) is a Japanese group of paper, packaging and construction materials industries. In addition to the approximately equal Oji Paper is far ahead of the other competitors one of the largest of its kind in Japan and one of the largest in the world. The annual turnover of the Group in 2006 amounted to 9.908 billion U.S. dollars, net profit to 148 million U.S. dollars.

The Group, headquartered in Tokyo, was on 30 March 2001 from the merger of Nippon Seishi KK (日本 制 纸 株式会社, Eng. Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.. ) And Daishowa Seishi KK (大 昭和 制 纸 株式会社, Eng. Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd.. ). First, the group operated under the name KK Nippon Unipac Holding (株式会社 日本 ユニパック ホールディング). After the merging of the two companies, the Group was renamed on 1 October 2004 in KK Nippon Seishi Group Honsha (Nippon Paper Group, Inc.). The Group of companies includes several dozen subsidiaries and holdings. The company's activities are divided into four business segments: pulp and paper, paper -related activities (cellulose fiber -based ) setup and building materials, as well as other.

The Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd.. is known, among other things because of her former presidents [ Ryoei Saito ]. This bought on 15 May 1990, $ 82.5 million, the most expensive damlas picture of the world, the Portrait of Dr Gachet by Vincent van Gogh.

The subsidiary Nippon Paper Industries is the owner of the ice hockey club Nippon Paper Cranes. The club since its foundation in 1949 belonged to the Nippon Paper 1994 acquired companies JUJO Seishi Kushiro (十条 制 纸 钏 路).