Stora Enso expands its corrugated packaging business in Russia
STORA ENSO OYJ Stock Exchange Release 24.5.2006 at 14.00
Stora Enso expands its corrugated packaging business in Russia Stora Enso has decided to build its third corrugated packaging plant in Russia, at Lukhovitsy, some 130 km southeast of Moscow. The annual production capacity of the plant, which will employ some 175 people, will be 150 million m2 of corrugated board. The capital expenditure is estimated at EUR 54 million. Construction of the plant will begin in September 2006, with production starting up in the first quarter of 2008. Stora Enso has positive experience of the corrugated packaging business in Russia and aims to be the leading producer of corrugated board in the European part of Russia. The new plant will serve the growing demand for high-quality packaging in Russia, especially in the Moscow region. Customers will be mainly in the food, beverage, cigarette and electronics industries, representing both international and Russian brands. Stora Enso already has two corrugated packaging plants in Russia. The first plant started operations at Balabanovo in 1998 and the second at Arzamas in 2004. The two plants have 450 employees and produced a total of 215 million m2 of corrugated packaging board in 2005. For further information, please contact: Veli-Jussi Potka, Senior Vice President, Industrial Packaging, tel. +358 2046 21486 Pekka Pöllänen, Vice President, Corrugated Board Business, tel. +358 2046 27300 Keith B Russell, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, tel. +44 20 7016 3146 Kari Vainio, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, tel. +44 20 7016 3140 PRESS KIT A press kit is available at http://bmt.storaenso.com/storaensolink.jsp?imageid=060524 that includes the following: - background information about Stora Ensos corrugated board business in Russia - map showing the locations of Stora Ensos corrugated board plants in Russia - images that may be freely used to illustrate articles about Stora Enso Copy and paste the above link into your web browser to download these files. www.storaenso.com www.storaenso.com/investors STORA ENSO OYJ p.p. Jussi Siitonen Jukka Marttila