MONTREAL,
April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -
Resolute Forest Products (NYSE: ABH) (TSX: ABH) and National
Envelope today announced a unique partnership that will provide
customers with an expanded portfolio of solutions, including
folio-size sheets using Resolute's innovative, high-yield,
sustainable paper. This alliance is an integral part of both
companies' continued emphasis on providing customers with
industry-leading eco-friendly solutions.
Resolute recently launched Align™, its family of
high-opacity, high-bulk, environmentally responsible papers that
can be used as alternatives to chemical pulp coated and uncoated
freesheet in most commercial printing applications. When compared
to traditional offset papers, Align grades deliver a smaller
environmental footprint and greater cost savings to customers.
When comparing the overall product life cycle,
Align grades have less impact on the environment than traditional
freesheet papers, including a carbon footprint that is from 35% to
85% smaller than that of the average freesheet grade. Furthermore,
thanks to its higher bulk and opacity at a lower basis weight,
customers receive all the printability they expect, but at a lower
cost. Based on their needs, Align customers can either pay less for
paper, pay less for postage, or print and mail more at the same
cost.
"Through this partnership with National
Envelope, even more end-users - including those supplied by
sheet-fed printers - can benefit from the environmental and
economic savings that the Align paper line brings," stated
Richard Garneau, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Resolute Forest Products. "This effort fits
with Resolute's goal of helping more customers reduce their own
environmental footprint."
"As National Envelope continues to evolve, this
is a strategic milestone toward transforming into a more
diversified sustainability-oriented supplier," said Ken Winterhalter, Chief Executive Officer of
National Envelope. "This partnership will enable more customers to
have access to environmental solutions without having to pay a
premium."
To learn more about Resolute's Align papers or
to order samples, please visit www.alignpaper.com.
About Resolute Forest Products
Resolute Forest Products is a global leader in
the forest products industry with a diverse range of products,
including newsprint, commercial printing papers, market pulp and
wood products. The Company owns or operates 18 pulp and paper mills
and 23 wood products facilities in the
United States, Canada and
South Korea. Marketing its
products in more than 90 countries, Resolute has third-party
certified 100% of its managed woodlands to sustainable forest
management standards. The shares of Resolute Forest Products,
formerly doing business as AbitibiBowater, trade under the stock
symbol ABH on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto
Stock Exchange. For more information visit www.resolutefp.com.
Resolute and other member companies of the
Forest Products Association of Canada, as well as a number of environmental
organizations, are partners in the Canadian Boreal Forest
Agreement. The group works to identify solutions to conservation
issues that meet the goal of balancing equally the three pillars of
sustainability linked to human activities: environmental,
social and economic. Resolute is also a member of the World
Wildlife Fund's Climate Savers program, in which businesses
establish ambitious targets to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and work aggressively toward achieving them.
About National Envelope
National Envelope, a portfolio company of The
Gores Group, is one of the largest manufacturers of envelopes in
the world, with 9 manufacturing facilities, 2 distribution centers,
and over 2,400 employees in the United
States. The company is an environmental leader in the paper
and envelope converting industries with certifications from the
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Rainforest Alliance, Sustainable
Forestry Initiative® (SFI), Programme for the
Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), and Green Seal. The
organization is also an EPA Green Power Partner. For more
information about National Envelope, please visit
www.nationalenvelope.com.
SOURCE RESOLUTE FOREST PRODUCTS