The company expressed sympathy to everyone affected by the Tohoku region Pacific Ocean earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011.
The company recently informed the public of their production facilities recovery status in Hachinohe mill (Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture), Kitakami division (Kitakami HiTec Paper Co., Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture) and Shirakawa Plant (Nishishirakawa County, Fukushima Prefecture), where Mitsubishi Paper were forced to stop the production due to the earthquake and the Tsunami.
Situation in the region are as follows:
Hachinohe mill
(Coated and Non-coated printing paper, business communication paper, white paperboard) - Production is still being stopped - Power plant (mill’s own power plant) Status As planned, step by step start-up as of late April is foreseen. Currently, two heavy oil boilers and three turbines are in the trial run. The full operation of whole power plant in the mill is expected as of late May with
the kind support of Chubu Electric Power Corp.
With the support of relevant ministries and Aomori local government to start up our power plant, we have negotiated with Tohoku Electric Power Co. and agreed in principal to supply 50 thousands kilowatts of power as of May on for the high demand in summer time, which will
As of May 25, a part of Paper machines and coaters will resume operations. Other paper machines and coaters will restart the production one by one. By the end of the first half of FY2011, Hachinohe mill will be ready for most of main products to produce except for some grades of Hachinohe mill. Hachinohe mill is expected to be ready for its full production in the second half of FY 2011 (start from October 2011).
Kitakami Division
(photographic basepaper, hygienic paper, pulp)
contribute to the resolution of the electricity shortage in East Japan. - Paper machine, coaters recovery mile stone
Your Partner in Printing | Media and Systems On April 3, the production was resumed once. Due to another earthquake off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture on April 7, all the machines stopped again. On April 14, it resumed operations again but it will take some more time to be in full operation due to the unstable procurement of raw materials. Shirakawa Plant (electric insulation board for transformer) It is fully restored on March 24 and is in full operation (full capacity). The impact of the damage caused by the earthquake on the company result is currently under estimation. The company will disclose it separately when our forecasts need to be modified.
MPM’s damage situation is not immediately affecting Mitsubishi Paper Holding (Europe) GmbH and its related companies (Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Europe GmbH, Bielefeld and Mitsubishi Paper GmbH, Düsseldorf). .
