Stora Enso invests in its mills in Sweden and Finland

Stora Enso invests in its mills in Sweden and Finland

June 21, 2007

    HELSINKI, June 21 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Stora Enso is
investing to improve board quality and CTMP production at
Fors Mill in Sweden  Stora Enso will upgrade and modernise
the two board machines (BM 2 and BM 3) and
chemi-thermomechanical pulping (CTMP) plant 2 at its Fors
Mill in Sweden to improve quality and pulp production. This
project, costing a total of EUR 29 million, is scheduled to
start in 2007 and be completed in January 2008 for BM 3 and
the CTMP investment, and in January 2009 for BM 2. 

    This investment will improve the quality of the board
manufactured at the mill in order to meet customers'
changing quality needs. It will moderately increase the
mill's production capacity.    

    Stora Enso is investing in packaging-derived fuel
combustion at its Anjalankoski Mill in FinlandStora Enso is
investing EUR 16.8 million to reduce energy costs by
increasing packaging-derived fuel (PDF) and biofuel
combustion capacity at its Anjalankoski Mill. The project,
which is scheduled for completion in autumn 2008, will
reduce dependence on fossil fuels and increase the
utilisation of recovered materials and biofuels. PDF
combustion capacity will be increased from 50 000 to 135
000 tonnes per year.  

    The main investments will be in additional equipment
for the existing power plant. Packaging for use as fuel at
Anjalankoski Mill includes paperboard, wood and plastic
packaging collected separately from small-scale businesses
and wholesalers. Anjalankoski Mill has been utilising PDF
since 1996.

    Previous press releases concerning Stora Enso's Fors
Mill are available at http://www.storaenso.com/press 

    - 26 October 2006: Stora Enso invests in its operations
in Austria and Finland
    - 16 December 2005: Quality upgrade at Stora Enso's
Fors Mill in Sweden

    Stora Enso is an integrated paper, packaging and forest
products company producing publication and fine paper,
packaging board and wood products ¨C all areas in which the
Group is a global market leader. Stora Enso's sales totalled
EUR 14.6 billion in 2006. The Group has some 44 000
employees in more than 40 countries on five continents.
Stora Enso has an annual production capacity of 16.5
million tonnes of paper and board and 7.4 million cubic
metres of sawn wood products, including 3.2 million cubic
metres of value-added products. Stora Enso's shares are
listed in Helsinki, Stockholm and New York.  


    For further information, please contact:

     Hakan Molden, Managing Director, 
     Stora Enso Packaging Boards, Fors Mill, 
     Tel: [phone]

     Mikko Jokio, SVP, 
     Stora Enso Publication Paper, 
     Tel: [phone]

     Kari Vainio, EVP, 
     Corporate Communications, 
     Tel: [phone]

     Keith B Russell, SVP, 
     Investor Relations, 
     Tel: [phone]

     http://www.storaenso.com
     http://www.storaenso.com/investors