Stora Enso is Upgrading Board Quality at its Imatra Mills

Stora Enso is Upgrading Board Quality at its Imatra Mills

July 10, 2007

    HELSINKI, Finland, July 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Stora
Enso is investing EUR15 million to upgrade board
manufacturing at its Imatra mills in Finland to meet
customers' developing quality requirements.  The project is
scheduled to start in July 2007 and be completed in
September 2008.  As a consequence of this quality-driven
investment, the annual production capacity of board machine
5 will increase from 240,000 to 250,000 tonnes of liquid
packaging board (LPB). 

    "We are very pleased to announce this investment,
which demonstrates Stora Enso's unceasing commitment to
quality improvement.  This investment will secure Imatra's
long-term competitiveness in liquid packaging board and
enable the mill to satisfy its customers' increasing
quality demands," says Anders Harback, Vice President
of Liquid Packaging Boards Ambient.  

    Stora Enso's Imatra mills, which have a total annual
production capacity of 1.1 million tonnes, produce
packaging board, graphical board and paper. Liquid
packaging boards are manufactured for all the main types of
liquid packaging.  End uses of Stora Enso LPB include a
great variety of food products such as milk, soup, spices,
water, yoghurt and juice, as well as various non-food
products such as liquid detergents and fabric softeners. 

    Stora Enso is an integrated paper, packaging and forest
products company producing publication and fine paper,
packaging board and wood products -- all areas in which the
Group is a global market leader. Stora Enso's sales totalled
EUR14.6 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:

     Anders Harback, VP, 
     Liquid Packaging Boards Ambient
     Tel:   [phone]

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

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

     Ulla Paajanen-Sainio, Vice President, 
     Investor Relations and Financial Communications
     Tel:   [phone]