Daio Paper made successive investments in new machine installations and capacity expansion aimed at productivity improvement and providing stable supply in a wide variety of papers including printing paper and communication paper in addition to its mainstays, newsprint and containerboard, thus establishing a solid base as a full-range paper manufacturer.

1961
●Daio Paper is listed on the first section of the Osaka Securities Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange

1963
●Daio Paper installs in-house power generation facilities at Mishima Mill (Turbine No. 1 and boiler)

1966
●Daio Paper’s study abroad program sends first student to University of Maine, U.S.A.

1967
●“Daio Maru” is commissioned in May as the first ship dedicated to transporting woodchips from North America, and puts into Mishima port for the first time in July

●Reclamation work begins at Section A of the Muramatsu Industrial Park (Continues until September 1973)

1969
●Daio Paper installs deinked pulp manufacturing facility at Mishima Mill and begins production of deinked pulp

1972
●Reclamation work begins at Section B of the Muramatsu Industrial Park (Continues until May 1975)

1973
●Daio Paper installs paper machine N1 (Inverform 5 layer/linerboard) at New Mishima Mill

●Daio Paper installs recovered paper processing facilities (for production of containerboard)

●Daio Paper installs paper machine N2 (Inverform 5 layer/linerboard) at New Mishima Mill

●Daio Paper installs paper machine N3 (Fourdrinier/newsprint 8,130mm trim width) at New Mishima Mill

1974
●Construction of New Mishima Mill is completed

●Elleair Golf Club opens in Saita town (Kagawa prefecture)

1975
●Daio Paper opens Sales Head Office at headquarters, kicking off its unique sales structure to pave way to full-range paper manufacturer (the origin of the slogan, “to sell the products we have manufactured with our own efforts”)

1976
●Third stage of general wastewater treatment system is completed (Facilities for prevention of environmental pollution is completed between 1971 and 1976)

1977
●Daio Paper installs Thermo-Mechanical Pulp (TMP) facilities

●Daio Paper installs paper machine N4 (Bel Baie Former/newsprint) at New Mishima Mill (With completion of machine N4, Mishima Mill becomes the one of the largest mill at a single location in the world)

1978
●Daio Paper makes full-scale entry into printing and communication paper market and begins manufacture and sale of PPC paper

1979
●Mishima Mill wins Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Rationalization of Electricity Utilization at a Mill for fiscal 1978

●Daio Paper starts manufacture and sale of form paper

●Daio Paper starts manufacture and sale of Elleair facial tissue paper and makes entry into the household paper market

●Daio Paper starts manufacture and sale of toilet tissue