164,113 tons of recovered paper exports—and 20 hours of internal side gigs: BPJ News Morning Briefing (plus 7 more)
Raw materials are now pulled by FX and export bids. People are being re-allocated inside the company. Factory AI is back to basics: data foundations and hands-on support.
Recovered paper is no longer “cheap because Japan has too much of it.” Exchange rates, bidding, and exports move the constraints on supply. Meanwhile, how companies handle people and factory data is shifting—and print margins are increasingly decided by the design of the work before and after ink hits the substrate.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
Recovered paper exports in July 2026 came to 164,113 tons (up 9.1% year-on-year), beating the same month a year earlier for the 12th straight month. And in Kanto Shokumi’s export estimate for September-shipment OCC (old corrugated containers), the paper was quoted at $180 with USD/JPY at 158.5, implying 24 yen/kg (Recovered Paper Journal, September 6, 2026). In collection systems, following Nagoya City, Sagamihara City is also planning consolidated collection of paper co…
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