NewPage closes Stora Enso buy

03 January 2008

Packaging

NewPage has completed its acquisition of Stora Enso's US paper production operation on schedule, giving it an annual capacity of 5.5m tonnes of paper.

The £1.26bn deal, which was announced in September 2007 and is expected to complete by the first quarter of 2008, will give Stora Enso £760m ($1.5bn) in cash, a £101m note and close to a 20% stake in the newly formed holding company, NewPage Group.

NewPage now operates 12 paper mills and 26 paper machines across the US and Canada, producing 4.3m tonnes of coated paper, 920,000 tonnes of uncoated paper, 300,000 tonnes of specialty paper and 3.2m tonnes of pulp, making it the largest producer of coated paper in the US.

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