<B>Nexfor Closing Ohio Mill</B>

Nexfor Inc. announced plans to close its West Carrollton, Ohio mill early next month and consolidate operation at its Park Falls, Wis., mill. The scheduled closing is expected to be March 9.

The shutdown will remove around 100,000 tons of production from the market.

The Park Falls facility has an annual production capacity of 130,000 tons, and is highly integrated with a sulfite pulp mill and deinking facility on-site.

Nexfor's Eastern pulp and paper operations at Thurso, Quebec, Edmundston, NB and Madawaska, Maine are not affected by the restructuring. These operations are focused on producing highly specialized paper grades for publishers, high-volume printers and specialty paper and packaging converters.