Daio Paper to Install Additional Household Paper Production

Daio Paper Corporation has announced that the board of directors of the company approved a resolution to install additional state-of-the-art household paper production facilities to maintain a stable supply to the domestic market and strengthen exports to Asian countries such as China to fulfill the needs of the market and consumers as the manufacturer of Japan’s top household paper brand.

The facilities will be installed at the Company’s Kawanoe Mill (Shikokuchuo City, Ehime Prefecture; papermaking facility), which was converted into a household paper mill in October 2018, and the Kani Mill (Kani City, Gifu Prefecture; converting facility).

The papermaking facility to be installed at the Kawanoe Mill will be a high-speed machine with wide wire width that makes use of highly cost competitive pulp and energy supplied from the Mishima Mill that is located next to an international trade port. The converting facility to be installed at the Kani Mill will make full use of the mill’s locational advantage that facilitates flexibility in the supply of products to high demand areas in Japan, from the Tokyo metropolitan area to the Kansai area.

Through an optimization in production balance involving both the facilities to be added and existing facilities, the company will establish a manufacturing structure that enables the stable supply of all categories of household paper (facial tissue, toilet paper and kitchen paper) to the domestic market. Moreover, the company will ensure that the household paper produced at Kawanoe Mill could be exported in the form of jumbo rolls to its overseas production bases to escalate the sales of household paper in Asia, with a focus on China.

In recent years, the company has strengthened its manufacturing structure to meet the growth in demand for high value-added products such as lotion tissue and deodorizing toilet paper. Having reached the 40th anniversary of the Elleair brand in 2019, the company wants to fulfill the increasingly growing and diversifying needs of the markets and consumers of Japan and other regions of the world.

The company plans to procure the funds for this project through debt based financing, etc. The investment will have no significant effect on the company’s consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020.

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