| |
 While
the Nippon Paper Group is mainly engaged in the paper and paperboard business,
it operates a variety of other businesses including chemical products and paper
cartons. Each Group company applies its powers and abilities to develop new products
in each business division and new technologies that respond to evolving market
needs, both in Japan and abroad.
The Group's R&D policy comprises the following three points, aiming
at sustaining steady and continuous business development.
| ● |
Developing customer-oriented
products. |
| ● |
Developing next-generation
technologies. |
| ● |
Developing environment-friendly
products and technologies. |
◆Customer-Oriented Products
| ・ |
Products with high brightness, high gloss,
low density, light weight and other characteristics demanded in the increasingly
visual-oriented and diversified printing and publication markets. |
| ・ |
Products for the publication and business communication
paper market, where the on-demand printing system is increasingly spreading. |
◆Next-Generation Technologies
| ・ |
Utilization of bio-technology for trees of
paper material |
| |
| → |
Afforestation technologies of micropropagated
elite trees: Eucalyptus afforestation by clonal elite trees, screened from natural
forests, that offer twice the yield of pulp, faster growth, and improved environmental
stress tolerance as compared with conventional trees. |
| → |
Technologies for the repeated transformation
of desirable genes in safety by the Multi-Auto Transformation Vector System (MAT
Vector® System) which Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. originally developed:
providing trees with salt-tolerance and dry-tolerance, acquiring higher pulping
yield. |
|
| |
 |
| |
Planting site for clone sapling
in Collie, Western Australia
(as of March 2003, one year and eight months after planting) |
|
| ・ |
Application of bio-technology |
| → |
Application of clonal cell culture for garden
trees: micropropagation of precious trees or ornamental trees. |
| → |
Application of the MAT Vector® System for
the crops: developing rice with health-promoting benefits, which can be an effective
dietary aid in treating diabetes. |
| |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| |
Rice including GLP-1
(unpolished rice) |
Ordinary rice
(unpolished rice) |
Rice including GLP-1
(polished rice) |
Ordinary rice
(polished rice) |
| ・ |
Develop new products or cost cutting technologies
on improving the functionality of in-house production of materials used in the
paper making process, such as fillers and pigments. |
◆Environment-Friendly Products
and Technologies
| ・ |
Expand recycling technologies which enables
the use of wastepaper not currently reused in paper making, such as office wasteper
and magazines that contain adhesives in their spines. |
| ・ |
High-quality paper for paper containers that
can replace plastic containers. |
| |
|
|
