Stora Enso Wood Products continues to invest in the future. Three development projects ongoing in Finland, Austria and Sweden

Stora Enso Wood Products is continuing to develop its business operations and   
investing over EUR 5 million in further developing the value-added product range
in its mills at Uimaharju in Finland, Bad St. Leonhard in Austria and Ala in    
Sweden.                                                                         
                                                                                

“These investments are the concrete next steps in our continuing efforts to     
improve the value of our offering to our key customers and will help in         
considerably strengthening these sites and their long-term competitiveness,”    
says Hannu Kasurinen, EVP, Stora Enso Wood Products.                            

Uimaharju Sawmill investing in ThermoWood business                              
With the ThermoWood investment Uimaharju Sawmill will add a new product to its  
portfolio. The ongoing investment at Uimaharju includes moving two existing     
ThermoWood kiln chambers and a boiler from Stora Enso's Kotka Sawmill to        
Uimaharju. The kilns and the boiler were dismantled at Kotka in late January    
2010 and taken to Uimaharju in mid-February. The kilns are currently being      
installed and are expected to be ready for test runs by mid-May.                

“Uimaharju has already taken over the ThermoWood sales, and is serving our      
customer base from the existing buffer stocks at Kotka and contracted supplies  
from other producers until the new unit is operational,” explains Jukka         
Kilpeläinen, Product Line Manager, ThermoWood.                                  

The relocation of the ThermoWood business will open up interesting potential for
development involving the joinery component mill at Uimaharju, and will         
facilitate Stora Enso's entry into the pine ThermoWood business. The            
manufacturing process has also been upgraded in several ways to improve the     
overall ThermoWood process at Uimaharju. Significant changes have been made to  
the grading plant, packaging and sticking units, and the renovated and          
modernised units are now in operation.                                          

Second CNC unit and a loading centre in Austria                                 
The second computer numerical control (CNC) unit at Bad St. Leonhard Sawmill in 
Austria is already under construction, with installation of the machinery       
scheduled in April. The new unit will be commissioned in early summer 2010. The 
walls and ceilings of the building for the new unit are made out of Stora Enso's
own cross-laminated timber constructions.                                       

“The demand for customised cross-laminated elements has been growing rapidly.   
This investment is intended to meet the more demanding customer requirements and
improve the flexibility and efficiency of our manufacturing process,” says      
Gernot Weiss, Product Line Manager, Cross-Laminated Timber.                     

New high frequency press at Ala                                                 
A new high frequency press at Ala Sawmill in Sweden will ensure consistent      
quality in gluing and clearly improve utilisation of the capacity of the new    
vertical finger-jointing line, thereby increasing the overall output of the     
lines and enabling a wider product range to be offered to customers.            

“This investment will also improve our product and service quality, and further 
enhance our reliability as a supplier to our customer base,” explains Janek     
Antipin, Product Line Manager, Components.                                      

The new press will be installed in July with start-up scheduled in August 2010. 

For further information:                                                        
Hannu Kasurinen, EVP, Stora Enso Wood Products, tel. +358 2046 21222            
Päivi Kauhanen, Director, Communications Finland, tel. +358 2046 21292          

Investors:                                                                      
Ulla Paajanen-Sainio, Head of Investor Relations, tel. +358 2046 21242          


www.storaenso.com                                                               
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Stora Enso Wood Products provides customer-focused solutions to the construction
and joinery industries and the wood products trade. Stora Enso Wood Products    
generated sales of EUR 1.2 billion in 2009 and employs 4 500 people in 24       
manufacturing units in Europe and its global sales and distribution operations. 

Stora Enso is the world leader in forest industry sustainability. We offer our  
customers solutions based on renewable raw materials. Our products provide a    
climate-friendly alternative to many non-renewable materials, and have a smaller
carbon footprint. Stora Enso is listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and
the FTSE4Good Index. Stora Enso employs some 27 000 people worldwide, and our   
sales in 2009 amounted to EUR 8.9 billion. Stora Enso shares are listed on      
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki (STEAV, STERV) and Stockholm (STE A, STE R). In addition,   
the shares are traded in the USA as ADRs (SEOAY) in the International OTCQX     
over-the-counter market.