The 9/30 deadline that ends bills of exchange is coming. Paper exits EV materials. A label plant shuts — plus seven more stories | BPJ News (Evening Edition)
As cash-collection rules change, sites are consolidated and scandals flare at the same time. Print profitability will split on two designs: the physical object—and the payment terms behind it.
The “end of bills of exchange” notice circulated by Japan’s printing trade body will push a rethink of payment terms and credit control straight down to the shop floor. Nippon Paper’s retreat from EV battery materials in Europe, and MCC’s shutdown of a German label site, show what it looks like when the assumptions behind an investment change before the payback arrives.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
The end of bill-of-exchange and check clearing has started to hit day-to-day transactions as a concrete timeline. At the same time, paper, labels, and functional materials are seeing a run of “site calls” that decide where to make and why to keep making. And in product incidents and IP (licensed character) projects gone wrong, the surrounding operations—updating notices, controlling physical inventory—get heavier fast, shaking the bounda…
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