ROTTNEROS TO INCREASE PULP PRICES FOR NBSK

Upplands Väsby 21 May 2004

ROTTNEROS AB (Publ.)

For further information call CEO Lars Blecko, tel. +46 70 641 49 10

The Rottneros Group, listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, is one of the world’s leading non-integrated producers of market pulp. The Group includes the parent company Rottneros AB, five pulp mills in Sweden and Spain, a small sawmill as well as raw materials purchasing companies in Latvia and Portugal. The Group also has marketing companies in Germany and Belgium. Production capacity amounts to 700,000 tonnes. The Group has around 860 employees and turnover of approximately SEK 2,400 million.