WoodComp

Iwakuni Mill

Nippon Paper Industries Co Ltd, Iwakuni Mill · also known as Iwakuni (logistics center)

Iwakuni Mill is an operating kraft pulp mill in Iwakuni, Japan, with a capacity of 620 000 tonnes per year.

Company
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
Group
Nippon Paper Group
WoodComp ID
00229 (how IDs work)
Country
Japan
City
Iwakuni
Status
Operating
Capacity
620 000 t/y pulp
Paper: not recorded (integrated papermaking; no paper capacity figure recorded)
Type
Kraft
Region
Yamaguchi

34.175, 132.238

Report a data error

Raw material

Mixed Softwood

Products

Paper products
Coated Paper
Byproducts
Functional chemicals

Related facilities

Iwakuni Mill is the 3rd largest pulp mill in Japan of the 11 with a pulp capacity figure in WoodComp's register.

More Nippon Paper Group facilities
Yatsushiro Mill ·Ishinomaki Mill ·Shiraoi Mill ·Asahikawa Mill ·Akita Mill
Largest pulp mills in Japan
Niigata Mill ·Tomioka Mill ·Yonago Mill ·Tomakomai Mill ·Satsumasendai Mill
Nearest facilities
Chugoku Lumber Kure (HQ complex: honsha seizai + kobara) (35 km) ·Gotsu Mill (94 km) ·Chugoku Lumber Hyuga (日向工場) (200 km) ·Moorim P&P (299 km) ·Jeonju Mill (504 km)

Timeline

  1. 2013conversion

    Mill converted to logistics center. Cellulose nanofiber (CNF) demonstration facility installed with 30 t/y capacity

    Source ↗
  2. 2012closure

    Nippon Paper Crecia shut down production facilities at Iwakuni Mill, representing ~15% of Crecia production capacity

    Source ↗

Sources

Data confidence: Medium (74 of 100) how this is computed

Show all (5)

How to cite

WoodComp (). Iwakuni Mill (WoodComp ID 00229). WoodComp facility database, version 2026-09. Accessed the date you retrieved it. https://woodcomp.world/id/229

Data © WoodComp, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribution required.