The company has informed the BSE that it stopped production from its Paper Machine II at the printing and writing paper unit on Tuesday. Production will resume once water is available.
The stoppage will mean a production loss of about 400 tonnes a day.
Under normal conditions the output from the Karur Plant is about 1,150 tonnes a day with a total annual capacity of about 4 lakh tonnes. The production will now drop to about 750 tonnes a day.
TNPL has a total annual production capacity of 6 lakh tonnes spread across two manufacturing facilities, including a packaging board plant of 2 lakh tonnes a year.