Abstract
From June to July 2007, a voluntary internal investigation carried out at Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd., revealed that soot and smoke emissions at six mills exceeded the standards of the Air Pollution Control Law.
This issue was announced by Nippon Paper, on July 2, 2007. Since then, the company has worked to strengthen environmental management and regain trust by implementing measures to prevent recurrence. To prevent such problems from happening again, extensive preventive steps were taken with both facilities⁄management and compliance aspects.
The status of facilities⁄management aspect is reported below this time.
