Meanwhile, paper producers have been pushing through price increases that should provide them with the capital to invest in new equipment.
The state is the country's second-biggest paper producer, after Wisconsin.
Sales fell 11.3 percent from the preceding year to 275 billion yen, the major paper producer said in a financial statement.
There are many paper producers and hundreds of styles of papers.
Simpson, based in Seattle, is a privately held paper producer.
The South is now the nation's leading paper producer, providing nearly 60 percent of the wood supply.
Besides it, other industries like paper producers or tool producers also exist.
In the comparable period last year the company, the nation's largest paper producer, earned $95 million, or $1.11 a share.
In this difficult economic environment, the company, the world's largest paper producer, has outperformed its competition.
Domtar Inc., a large paper producer based in Montreal, has developed its own plastic for bank notes.