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Shiraoi Mill

Shiraoi Mill · also known as Hokkaido Mill (integrated 2010)

Shiraoi Mill is an operating pulp mill in Shiraoi, Japan, with a capacity of 365 000 tonnes per year.

Company
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
Group
Nippon Paper Group
WoodComp ID
00516 (how IDs work)
Country
Japan
City
Shiraoi
Status
Operating
Capacity
365 000 t/y pulp
Other filing for 2010
Region
Hokkaidō

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Products

Paper products
Coated PaperFine PaperSpecialty Paper

Related facilities

Shiraoi Mill is the 7th largest pulp mill in Japan of the 11 with a pulp capacity figure in WoodComp's register.

More Nippon Paper Group facilities
Yatsushiro Mill ·Iwakuni Mill ·Ishinomaki Mill ·Asahikawa Mill ·Akita Mill
Largest pulp mills in Japan
Niigata Mill ·Tomioka Mill ·Yonago Mill ·Tomakomai Mill ·Satsumasendai Mill
Nearest facilities
Terneyles Plastun (STS Technowood softwood mill) (472 km) ·Kyowa Mokuzai (協和木材, Hanawa + Shinjo-anläggningarna) (620 km) ·Chugoku Lumber Kashima (鹿島工場, inkl. andra sågverket) (736 km) ·RFP Group Amursk wood processing center (925 km) ·Gotsu Mill (1144 km)

Timeline

  1. 2026capacity reported

    Capacity reported: 365 000 t/y (mill scope, observed 2026-07-25).

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  2. 2025closure

    No. 8 paper machine (fine paper manufacturing) scheduled to shut down end of September 2025 due to graphic paper demand decline

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  3. 2010other

    Integrated with Asahikawa Mill and Yufutsu Mill into unified Hokkaido Mill operation

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Sources

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

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