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NewPage Corporation announced today a new On Paper podcast series episode featuring Howard Skip Elliott, vice president of public safety and environment at CSX Transportation.

In this episode, available for download at OnPaperSeries.com, Elliott shares how railroads are an energy efficient way to move goods on land, and offers listeners insight into how CSX has helped lead the industry in becoming the most environmentally-friendly transport option. In fact, according to CSX, trains can move a ton of freight more than 436 miles on a single gallon of fuel.

“CSX is an important part of the sustainable supply chain,” Elliott states. “And as our customers and consumers in general are increasingly focused on the footprint of a product, the environmental advantage of shipping goods by rail is becoming even more apparent.”

As a Charter Member of the EPA Smart Way Program and the first railroad to join the EPA's Climate Leaders Program, CSX is committed to developing long-term, comprehensive climate change strategies. In addition to inventorying its own greenhouse gas footprint, in 2008 CSX launched an online carbon calculator that calculates the carbon dioxide emissions savings of transporting freight by rail, thereby providing shippers and other interested parties the ability to select an environmentally sound shipping option among the many options available.

Additionally, since 2000, CSX has invested more than $1 billion to upgrade its locomotive fleet with technology that reduces both fuel consumption and air pollutant emissions. Through these efforts, the company has improved its fuel efficiency by approximately 90 percent since 1980.

Further demonstrating CSX's commitment to the environment, Elliott shares with On Paper listeners, “As part of the Climate Leaders Program, CSX announced a plan to reduce the company's CO2 emission intensity by 8 percent by 2011. That's the equivalent of taking 441,000 cars off the road each year or burning almost six million fewer barrels of oil.”

In addition to OnPaperSeries.com, this new episode is available at iTunes.com and Zune.net by searching for “NewPage Corporation”. To access previous podcasts and receive notification of new episode releases, subscribe free of charge at OnPaperSeries.com. Sponsored by NewPage Corporation, On Paper is now in its third season.

About On Paper Podcast Series

The On Paper Podcast Series, presented by NewPage Corporation, is an ongoing solutions-based dialogue that provides a platform for professionals to share how their organizations implement sustainable practices. With dozens of episodes featuring representatives from the most innovative of corporate America, across a variety of industries, On Paper has garnered more than one million downloads. Visit www.onpaperseries.com to listen to individual episodes and subscribe to receive notices of new episode releases.

About NewPage Corporation

Headquartered in Miamisburg , Ohio , NewPage Corporation is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America , based on production capacity, with $3.1 billion in net sales for the year ended December 31, 2009 . The company's product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint and specialty papers. These papers are used for corporate collateral, commercial printing, magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, newspapers, packaging applications and direct mail advertising.

NewPage owns paper mills in Kentucky , Maine , Maryland , Michigan , Minnesota , Wisconsin and Nova Scotia , Canada . These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 4.4 million tons of paper, including approximately 3.2 million tons of coated paper, approximately 1.0 million tons of uncoated paper and approximately 200,000 tons of specialty paper. To learn more, visit www.NewPageCorp.com.

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Shannon Semmerling
NewPage
001-715-422-4023

Pöyry has been awarded a contract for developing a basic engineering package and supplying related services for Borealis AG's semi-commercial catalyst plant located in Linz, Austria. The contract value is not disclosed. The total investment cost for the whole plant is approximately EUR 75 million.

The services will be completed by the end of July 2010. This assignment supports Pöyry's position as a provider of comprehensive engineering and project services to the chemical and process industries.

Borealis is a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions that create value for society. With sales of EUR 6.6 billion in 2008, customers in over 120 countries, and 5400 employees worldwide, Borealis is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and has production locations, innovation centres and customer service centres across Europe and the Americas. Through Borouge, a joint venture between Borealis and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), the company's footprint reaches out to the Middle East, Asia Pacific, the Indian sub-continent and Africa. Building on the unique Borstar® technology and their experience in polyolefins for more than 50 years Borealis and Borouge are leading provider of innovative plastics solutions.

Pöyry supports the aims of Borealis in developing sustainable solutions in close co-operation.

Additional information by:
Jouni Takakarhu, President, Business Area Chemicals, Industry business group
tel. +358 10 33 21157

The energy chain information can now be managed in real-time. Information that has been entered once will now serve the whole energy chain. The contracting parties' biomass and energy production IT systems will complement each other and allow easy and real-time management of the energy chain information – from tree plant to ashes and back to the forest in a controlled manner.

MHG Systems brings to the table its knowhow on the first part of the energy chain, i.e. managing biomass related field work and producing map and mobile services. Protacon completes the concept by offering energy companies, terminals, fuel suppliers, carriers, contractors, laboratories and authorities with tools to manage fuel related information. This joint service concept and modern technology will provide new best policies that will improve their customers' business operations.

The solution will promote even more environmentally-friendly energy production and it will also lead the way in decreasing the carbon footprint and improving the traceability of biofuel chains. The total carbon footprint can now be retrieved from a single system. According to international trends, the traceability of biofuels will soon apply to all energy production.

"MHG Systems' core competence lies in its in-depth experience on business models used in the international bioenergy and forest industries. The cooperation with MHG Systems will provide us with new distribution channels – especially to international markets", says the CTO of Protacon Ltd, Vesa Talvela.

"Protacon's expertise on optimising energy plant processes and supplying automation systems allows us to create a unique business model – to sell proven end-to-end solution to power plants and biofuel suppliers on a global scale", explains the Managing Director of MHG Systems, Seppo Huurinainen.

Managing Director Seppo Huurinainen, MHG Systems Ltd, +358 10 400 6280, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CTO Vesa Talvela, Protacon Ltd, +358 10 3472 640, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Established in 2005, MHG Systems Ltd is a Finnish IT service company who is also one of the world's leading providers of bioenergy ERP systems. The company utilises its partner network to produce IT and map service solutions designed for developing biomass-based business operations and improving various types of field work. Available now in 13 languages, the company's services bring about significant cost savings to all operators of the bioheat and bioelectricity production chain. www.mhgsystems.com