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"The Japanese Paper Industry and its Future in the Global Competition" Guest Speaker: Mr. Hideki Ushiro, Senior Manager Nippon Paper Industries Co.,Ltd. | ||||||||
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Mr. Ushiro gave an interesting presentation on the development of the Japanese paper market during the last decades, and the future outlok for the industry.
As reasons for the low import ratio of paper (4.6 % in 1999), he gave two reasons; As for paper production, Japan is second behind USA and in cumsuption Japan is third, behind USA and China. An interesting fact is that the consumption per capita is 347.2 kg in USA, 320.8 kg in Finland (3rd), 239.2 kg in Japan (7th), but only 28 kg in China. The Japanese and Finnish paper industries are well represented on the top 10 list. If noting the latests, and planned mergers, the list would be:
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