Plunging births push diaper maker’s adult market switch


THE country’s plummeting birth rate has led a manufacturer of diapers to stop making them for babies in the country and instead ramp up production for adults, the company said on March 26.

Oji Holdings will wrap up domestic output of infant diapers in September, after production dropped from a 2001 peak of around 700 million annually to 400 million today.

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