Caraustar Announces Price Increase

Caraustar Industries Inc., Atlanta, has announced that it will increase prices for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard by $40 per ton effective with shipments on and after Jan. 28, 2008.

Michael J. Keough, president and chief executive officer, says, “We continue to be faced with historically high raw material and energy costs, making it necessary to increase prices on all grades and products of uncoated recycled paperboard.”

Caraustar, a recycled packaging company, is one of the world’s largest integrated manufacturers of converted recycled paperboard. Caraustar serves the four principal recycled boxboard product end-use markets: tubes and cores; folding cartons; gypsum facing paper and specialty paperboard products.

More information is available at www.caraustar.com.