Ōji Seishi
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha |
| ISIN | JP3174410005 |
| founding | February 12, 1873 |
| Seat | Chūō , Tokyo Prefecture |
| management | Shinoda Kazuhisa (President and CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 4,318 (June 2008) |
| sales | JPY 1318.4 billion (2007/2008) |
| Branch | Paper industry, packaging industry, building materials |
| Website | www.ojipaper.co.jp |
Ōji Seishi KK ( Japanese 王子 製 紙 株式会社 , Ōji Seishi Kabushiki kaisha , English Oji Paper Company, Limited ) is a Japanese company in the paper , packaging and forestry industries that belongs to the Ōji Group. In addition to the Nippon Paper Group , which is roughly the same size , it is one of the largest of its kind in Japan by a long way ahead of its other competitors. The company owns numerous paper mills in Japan, several laboratories and a forestry museum. The headquarters are in Chūō in Tokyo Prefecture .
Business areas
The business areas of the group are the production, processing and distribution of printing paper , writing paper, packaging paper, wood-free paper, cellulose fiber- based household products , cardboard and cardboard, plastics, thermal paper, self-adhesive paper, disposable diapers, the manufacture of specialty chemicals for paper production and packaging machines, and the leasing of Company real estate and land, reforestation in Japan and overseas and, last but not least, management of the company's own forests.
history
The company traces its history back to Shoshi Kaisha , founded by Shibusawa Eiichi (1840–1931) on February 12, 1873 in Ōji , now a district of Tokyo . In 1876 Shibusawa was one of the companions of an official delegation, which, under the leadership of Tokugawa Akitake , a younger brother of the Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu , traveled to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia / USA and then to the 1878 World Exhibition in Paris / France. On this trip to the West he got to know the modern methods of industrial paper production. Shibusawa Eiichi founded modern industrial paper production in Japan with his company. Twenty years later he renamed it after the place where it was founded. 1933 merged Oji Paper Company with Fuji Seishi KK ( 富士製紙株式会社 ) and Karafuto Kogyo KK ( 樺太工業株式会社 ). The resulting company produced around four-fifths of all "Western-style paper" made in Japan. After the Second World War, Ōji Seishi was broken up into Tomakomai Seishi KK ( 苫 小 牧 製 紙 株式会社 , today's Ōji Seishi), Honshū Seishi KK ( 本州 製 紙 株式会社 ) and Jūjō Seishi KK ( 十條 製 紙. ) By government decree (Excess Economic Powers Decentralization Act) 株式会社 ; today's competitor Nippon Paper Group ). In the decades that followed, the company grew to its present size through takeovers, investments, joint ventures and the opening of additional production facilities at home and abroad. The takeovers in 2005 included the European photo paper manufacturer Ilford Imaging Switzerland , in Germany the Kanzan Spezialpapiere GmbH in Düren , manufacturer of inkjet and thermal papers (share: 94.7368%).
In 2012 the group of companies was transferred to the newly founded Ōji Holdings . - The company's Kami no hakubutsukan (紙 の 博物館) paper museum is located in Asukayama Park .
Sports
The company owns the Ōji Eagles ice hockey team, founded in 1925 .
Web links
Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 16.5 ″ N , 139 ° 45 ′ 59.3 ″ E