- Business
- Oji Holdings Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of pulp, paper, and diversified forest-based products worldwide. Founded on February 12, 1873, and headquartered at 7-5 Ginza 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, the company operates through four main segments: Household and Industrial Materials, which provides containerboards, corrugated containers, boxboards, folding cartons, packaging papers, paper bags, household papers including facial tissues, toilet rolls, kitchen towels, wet wipes, and face masks, disposable diapers, and liquid paper cartons; Functional Materials, offering specialty papers, thermal papers, adhesive products, films, release liners, and non-woven fabrics; Forest Resources and Environment Marketing, supplying pulp, energy, lumber, woodchips, saccharified products, cellulose nanofibers, and afforestation services; and Printing and Communications Media, producing newsprint, printing, publication, and communication papers. It serves industrial, consumer, medical, agricultural, and publishing markets across Japan, China, rest of Asia, North and South America, Europe, and Oceania, with 39,136 employees on a consolidated basis as of March 2025.
Recent developments include the April 2024 completion of the acquisition of Walki Group, a European advanced materials converter, to strengthen sustainable packaging capabilities; the September 2025 agreement to acquire Austrocel Hallein, an Austrian biorefinery producing dissolving pulp and bioproducts, pending approvals, to elevate forest biomass as a core business; investments in Brazilian forest plantations, a Uruguayan forest acquisition company, high-density bio-carbon firm Bionow S.A., a Taiwanese molded pulp packaging equipment maker, and an Indian microcrystalline cellulose manufacturer; establishment of a joint venture with Itochu Enex for biomass power generation and a business alliance with Chuetsu Pulp & Paper; consolidation of household paper mills; launch of new liquid packaging carton plant in Vietnam and expansions in corrugated containers in India and Vietnam; and introduction of brands like Renewa for advanced paper recycling and products such as CellArray-Heart cell culture substrates and SILBIO ALBA paper packaging.