Forest Products Division
Message from the COO
- Executive Officer, COO, Forest Products Division
- Yasuyuki Amakusa
The Forest Products Division of Marubeni has an overwhelming presence and transaction volume especially in the pulp and paper industry, doing business and trading in the field of forest industry. We also own the largest forested areas abroad among Japanese companies, securing the renewable wood resources.
For sustainable profit expansion, we proactively continue the overseas operations, and powerfully develop our value chain both from the viewpoint of operations and from the viewpoint of trading on the axis of our wide range of operating companies ranging from resources to products.
Sources of Strength
• A value chain in the forest products business covering upstream to downstream operations
The division conducts business investment, as well as production and trade, across the entire paper and pulp business, including in areas such as afforestation, wood chips, pulp, paper, paperboard, and wastepaper. Each product segment within the division seeks to create added value and aims to be top in its field, enabling the development of a highly competitive value chain.
• Domestic and international business networks capable of providing production, sales and other extensive functions
Leveraging the Group’s strengths as a wood chip and pulp supply source, as a manufacturer of printing paper and a containerboard manufacturer, and as a paper distribution company, the division is aiming to further expand sustainable earnings particularly in Asia, where future growth is anticipated.
• Largest area under afforestation of any company in Japan
The division entered the afforestation business in the 1990s. Since then, it has properly managed mainly seven projects in five countries, covering a total area of 390,000 hectares, which includes all areas of afforested and possibly-afforested*. Wood chips from controlled logging and wood processing are converted primarily into raw material for paper and biomass fuel. The division remains committed to securing access to forest-related commercial goods, which have begun to assume new value.
* The figure of 390,000 hectares includes all area of afforested and possibly-afforested Affiliated with Marubeni Group.
News & Topics
Handling of All Pulp from Indonesia-based TEL
Acquisition of Integrated Containerboard Raw Materials and Finished Products Manufacturer in Malaysia
Establishment of Joint Venture Company for Wood Chip Production in Cambodia
