NewPage Corporation, North America's leading supplier of publishing papers, announced the "Paper Sells More Product" campaign which will award one active catalog, magazine or retail company with $100,000 in print services to support the winner's efforts to sell more products.

Paper, especially in the form of catalogs, magazines and retail inserts, has been proven to sell more products and enhance profitability. According to the Direct Marketing Association, printed catalogs are the largest revenue generator among all media channels accounting for, on average, 50 percent of all sales for multichannel marketers. BIGResearch shares that magazines and the advertising they contain drive web search more than any other medium, more than double internet advertising and social media. Nielsen reports that newspaper inserts and circulars are responsible for 89 percent of coupon distribution, driving customers to visit the store.

Paper has an emotional appeal that customers respond to; it encourages the impulse buy. "Printed catalogs, magazines and retail inserts are the next best thing to actually putting products in the customers' hands," said Barry Nelson, senior vice president, sales for NewPage. "I personally encourage all companies that publish printed magazines, catalogs or retail inserts that sell product to enter the sweepstakes."

NewPage understands that direct marketers, magazine and catalog publishers and retailers have been under huge cost pressures in this recession.  The "Paper Sells More Product" contest was developed to enable a cross-section of paper users to renew their prospecting efforts.  

The "Paper Sells More Product" campaign runs through December 31, 2010, with the winner receiving notification in mid-January 2011. To enter and read a complete listing of sweepstakes rules and eligibility, please visit www.NewPageGiveaway.com. Entries to the sweepstakes will only be taken online through this Web site.

To learn more about NewPage Corporation, visit www.NewPageCorp.com.

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

St Marys Paper Corp. has engaged Dennis Bunnell as Chairman of the Board and CEO to head up the plans to restart production at the St Marys Paper mill in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.

St Marys Paper Corp. curtailed production of its groundwood pulp and paper mill on March 12, 2010. At that time the company indicated it would be managing the curtailment process in order that paper production could continue when market and business conditions warrant.

"St Marys has used this period of curtailment to conduct an independent up-dated marketing and sales study and to evaluate the operational and capital changes needed to ensure long term cost competitiveness. Our goal continues to be to transition the business from simply a paper production facility to a paper production, green energy and bio-economy business. Dennis's proven knowledge, experience and leadership gives us great confidence that he is a key step in achieving these medium and long term goals." said Gord Acton, President of St Marys.

"I am excited to join St Mary's team and believe that the biomass co-generation facility proposed to be built on St Marys property, when combined with capital improvements in the mill, will ensure the long term sustainability of the St Marys business model. We have already commenced discussions with stakeholders concerning our plan. These talks will continue with the goal of restarting the paper mill as early as possible this fall. Our discussions with major stakeholders have been positive and we anticipate completion of these discussions as soon as possible" said Dennis Bunnell.

"There are many items in our business plan which have to come together for the mill to re-open. I was happy to read about the implementation of an energy conservation program and I congratulate the foresight of Ontario Minister of Energy, Brad Duguid. This program will incent large electricity users like St Marys Paper Corp. to increase their usage at off-peak times. Not only does this have a positive impact on the environment, it will help make participating companies more competitive. This is a good program and is one of the critical pieces of our business plan," added Dennis Bunnell.

"St Marys Paper Corp. will be continuing to communicate and solicit support for the new business plan from all stakeholders over the coming weeks." concluded Mr. Bunnell, "This announcement certainly sets us on a positive track. There is more work to be done but we are off to a very positive start."

NewPage Corporation (NewPage) has just announced the election of Chan W. Galbato to the Board of Directors of NewPage and its affiliates as chairman of the Board, effective August 25, 2010.  Mr. Galbato takes over the chairman role from Robert L. Nardelli, who was elected chairman of the Board of NewPage and its affiliates on June 11, 2010 and who will remain on the Board as a director.  Mr. Nardelli, who also serves as chief executive officer of Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company, LLC (COAC), an affiliate of the majority owner of NewPage, said that, "Chan's appointment as chairman marks the end of a three-month transition during which the Board changed several top executives, including the CEO, implemented aggressive cost-reduction actions, and initiated efforts to improve customer service and profit margins.  With the recent appointment of George Martin as president and chief executive officer, and now the addition of Chan as chairman, we are confident that we have the right team in place to execute our business plan."  

Mr. Galbato is a senior operating executive of COAC and a director of the Brady Corporation.  Prior to COAC, Mr. Galbato owned and managed CWG Hillside Investments LLC, a consulting business providing operational and strategic turnaround expertise to CEOs of portfolio-based companies.  Before that, Mr. Galbato was president and chief executive officer of the Controls Group of businesses for Invensys plc.  He was president of Home Services as well as president of the commercial distribution arm of companies for The Home Depot.  In addition, Mr. Galbato served as president and chief executive officer of Armstrong Floor products and chief executive officer of Choice Parts LLC, a joint-venture auto parts locator and catalog business.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Galbato spent 14 years with General Electric Company, holding several leadership and finance positions within their various industrial divisions (including Transportation Systems, Aircraft Engines, Medical Systems and A ppliances), as well as serving as president and chief executive officer, Coregis Insurance Company, a G.E. Capital Company.  

Mr. Galbato holds a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the State University of New York.

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.  For more information, visit www.NewPageCorp.com.

SOURCE NewPage Corporation

Cerflor, the Brazilian Forest Certification Programme, has submitted its revised system, which includes the forest management standards for native forests as well as for planted forests, for PEFC endorsement. Stakeholders globally are invited to comment on the national scheme by 30th October 2010.

Cerflor is a voluntary programme developed together with representatives from different stakeholders at the national level. It includes representatives from producers, consumers, governments, NGO's and other organizations, such as universities and research institutions.

The Brazilian Government, through the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) and the Ministry of the Environment (MMA), has supported the development of a national forest certification programme.

The standard setting process of the Cerflor system was carried out at the national level by the Brazilian Association for Standardization (ABNT), following internationally agreed procedures on standardization, based on ISO/IEC Guide 59:1994 Code of good practice for standardization.

Cerflor was originally endorsed by PEFC in October 2005. Please submit your comments by 30th October 2010 using PEFC's Online Consultation Tool.

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• CERFLOR Documentation Annexes 1 to 10 (1.5 MB)
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Some time ago, Södra Timber took the decision to invest in a new sawmill in Värö with a capacity of 750,000 cubic metres. All licences for the new sawmill have now been obtained and the ground work got under way in the middle of July.

This investment involves the transfer of machinery and equipment from the German sawmill company Klausner Group's facility in Adelebsen, Germany. The entire facility will be moved from Germany to Värö in Sweden.

Klausner will be responsible for dismantling, relocating, constructing and starting up the Värö facility. Dismantling is under way in Germany and construction at the Värö site will start in October. Klausner has secured the participation of machinery manufacturers Link and Springer in the project.

"This means that the same staff that built the sawmill in Adelebsen will now be reassembling the sawmill in Värö," explained Peter Nilsson, President of Södra Timber.

"We plan to begin production at the facility in the summer of 2011. Production at the existing sawmill in Värö will continue as usual during the entire construction period," Nilsson commented.

For further information, please contact:
Peter Nilsson, President Södra Timber, tel. +46 70 315 09 27

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has defended its latest report – Getting the facts down on paper – which outlines APP Indonesia’s commitment to sustainability, following allegations by a number of NGO’s including WWF and Greenpeace. APP says the allegations are false and the report has now been independently verified.

According to APP, the report contains numerous facts that demonstrate the paper producer has been fulfilling its obligations to operate in a sustainable and environmentally conscious way. The accusation is the latest in an ongoing public relations war between environmental NGO's and APP, which is a major paper supplier to Australian printers.

However following its publication APP has been subject to a negative publicity campaign from a number of environmental non-government organisations, principally WWF. The 95 claims made against APP included allegations of illegal logging, deforestation, impact on biodiversity, responsibility for forest fires, poor financial viability and human rights abuses.

Aditya Bayunanda WWF’s Pulp & Paper Coordinator for Indonesia says, “Satellites images have been capturing and documenting every single hectare that the company has destroyed for years. We have no doubt, paper APP produces in its mills contains Sumatra’s timber from dense tropical rainforest.”

Meanwhile, APP says that the independent audit, conducted by audit service Mazars, found that the facts contained in the APP report were accurate and, therefore, the allegations made by the environmental NGOs were indeed baseless, inaccurate and without validity.

A statement from Mazars concludes, “In our opinion, based on our work described in this report, the facts and figures included in the report are reasonably accurate, verifiable and supported by documentation and information provided by external parties.”