日本製紙業減產

Recently the Asahi News reported the following:
日本製紙グループ本社は３日、コピー用紙やチラシ・雑誌などの印刷用紙をつくる「洋紙部門」の従業員の１５％に当たる１３００人を削減するリストラ計画を発表した。生産能力も１５％落とす。「紙離れ」の需要減に、東日本大震災での主力工場の被災が追い打ちとなった。
　来春から希望退職を募るなどし、従業員８８００人の中から正社員８５０人、非正社員４５０人を減らす。そのうち１００人は本社の管理部門を対象とする計画だ。
　生産設備は国内の主要２０工場のうち石巻（宮城県石巻市）、岩沼（同岩沼市）、富士、吉永（いずれも静岡県富士市）、岩国（山口県岩国市）の５工場で一部を停止。２０１２年９月までに生産能力の１５％にあたる８０万トン分を止める。
(試翻譯)
Nippon Paper Group, Inc. on the third announced the restructuring plan to reduce 1300 people which was 15% of the employee in the "Western-style paper section" which made copy paper and printing paper used for the handbill and the magazine, etc. Production capacity was dropped by 15%. Because "Away from Paper " demand had decreased, it became that a major industry was struck by the East Japan great earthquake.
Voluntary retirement would be raised from next spring to reduce 850 regular members and 450 contingent workers among the 8800 employees. In it, the plan targeted at 100 people in the department of management in the headquarters. Regarding the production facilities, of the 20 main factories in the country, part of the production facility at five factories would be stopped (Ishinomaki (Miyagi Prefecture Ishinomaki City), Iwanuma (same prefecture Iwanunacho), Fuji, Yoshinaga (both Shizuoka Prefecture Fuji City), and Iwakuni (Yamaguchi Prefecture Iwakuni City)). By September 2012, 15% of the capacity that was 800,000 tons of the production would be stopped.

So the employee in the paper industry is having a hard time.