Nippon Paper

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A global network of 175 companies in Japan and 15 other countries. They are involved in paper, paper packs, chemicals, energy, agriculture, forest products and building materials, and cellulose nanofiber.

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Nippon Paper Industries Co Ltd
	Commitment to zero deforestation 2/5 The Forest 500 identifies, ranks, and tracks the governments, companies and financial institutions worldwide that together could virtually eradicate tropical deforestation. Rankings are based on their public policies and commitments and potential impacts on tropical forests in the context of forest risk commodities (palm oil, soya, beef, leather, timber, and pulp and paper). This company received a score of 2/5. [Source 2016][More on Forests]	Previous boycott campaign The Friends of the Earth 'Kick Reflex' campaign ran in 2010, calling on the Maryvale Mill and parent company Nippon Paper to cease purchasing logs from high conservation value forests, water catchments and threatened species habitat. [Source 2010][More on Forests] Previous supporter of Gunn's destruction of Tasmania's forests. Nippon Paper was named in the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) report, 'The Truth Behind Tasmanian Forest Destruction and the Japanese Paper Industry: Who Logs Them? Who Buys Them?' (2007) as the biggest buyer of Gunns' old growth woodchips -- purchasing over 1,400,000 tons in 2006. [Source 2007][More on Forests] Stop Wood-chipping campaign Nippon subsidiary South East Fibre Exports did own the chipmill at Eden, NSW. (It was sold to Allied Natural Wood Exports Pty Ltd on 23 December 2015). This chipmill uses mainly native forest trees, most cut down solely for woodchipping. It does not use waste. Nippon Paper was the focus of a campaign to stop wood-chipping the South East and East Gippsland forests. [Source 2011][More on Forests]

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Australian Printer Paper Envi Recycled 50% recycled offset paper; certified carbon neutral under the Australian Government's National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS)  Printer Paper Green Wrap Printer Paper Olympic Bookkeeping Olympic Printer Paper Olympic Notebooks & Pads Olympic Stationery Optix Printer Paper Planet Ark Made from post-consumer recycled waste paper; FSC recycled certified; carbon neutral, made in Australia at Maryvale Mill, Victoria  Printer Paper Queens Slipper Board Games & Puzzles Reflex Printer Paper

Reflex Envelopes Reflex Stationery Reflex White 100% Recycled Made from post-consumer recycled waste paper; FSC recycled certified; Made in Australia at Maryvale Mill, Victoria  Printer Paper Tablex Printer Paper Tudor Envelopes Tudor some recycled  Notebooks & Pads Tudor recycled  Binders & Dividers Tudor Clipboards & Folders Tudor Stationery

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Nippon Paper Group buys Australian Paper (makers of Reflex Paper)
17th Feb 2009 — (AUST >> FOREIGN) Australian paper company PaperlinX has sold it's subsidiary Australian Paper (including the Maryvale pulp mill in Gippsland), to Japan's Nippon Paper Group, Inc. for $700 million.   [source]