The Company was floated by M/s Nair Press Syndicate Limited, a private entrepreneur, on 25th January 1947. Ours is the FIRST Newsprint Mill in the country. The Company is serving the Nation for the last 50 years. After 50 years of existence dedicatedly serving the country and remaining for the first 35 years as the only newsprint-manufacturing mill in the Country conserving the then scarce foreign exchange, Nepa Limited is one of the oldest Public Sector Undertakings. Nepa Ltd is most centrally located in the ranges of Satpura 525 KMs North East of Mumbai at Nepanagar, The Company was taken over by the Government of Central Province and Berar (at present Madhya Pradesh) in October 1949. The Commercial production commenced on 26th April 1956. Subsequently the Government of India took over controlling interest in 1958.
Till 16th August 1996, NEPA was using wood pulp for papermaking.
The Mill has successfully switched over operations with only waste paper recycling route.
To fight out competition, the company broadened its product mix by developing a range of Newsprint suiting different segments of newspapers, publishers and printers and introducing for the first time NEPA-44 and 42 (extra mileage newsprint) in the Country.