New Joint Venture Stora Enso Digital Solutions Stora Enso Oyj News Release December 2, 2004 at 8:00 GMT HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stora Enso and Xeikon International have established a joint venture, Stora Enso Digital Solutions N.V. The joint venture will undertake sales, service and development of Stora Enso DBS Powered by Xeikon, a turnkey disc packaging solution for disc producers such as the music, software, movie and games industries as an alternative to plastic packaging. Stora Enso has a majority shareholding in Stora Enso Digital Solutions, which is based in Lier, Belgium. DBS (Discbox Slider) is Stora Enso's environmentally friendly and cost- effective paperboard packaging for CDs and DVDs. Stora Enso DBS Powered by Xeikon is an automated on-demand production line that covers the whole process of printing, converting and filling DBS packs. It is very efficient for short runs and personalized packages, and so ideal for increasingly fragmented markets such as the music business. Xeikon International is the world's leading supplier of digital colour printing solutions for professional applications. It is a subsidiary of Punch International, a company with a turnover of EUR 176 million in 2003 listed on the Brussels Euronext stock exchange and part of the NextPrime index. Ari Lehikoinen has been appointed Managing Director of Stora Enso Digital Solutions. Currently based in Belgium, he was previously employed at Stora Enso's InnoCentre packaging research and development unit in Finland. For further information, please contact: Ari Lehikoinen, Managing Director, Stora Enso Digital Solutions N.V., tel. +358 400 707 854 Juha Lehtola, Vice President, New Business Innovations, Stora Enso Consumer Boards, tel. +358 2046 22153 http://www.storaenso.com/productnews http://www.storaenso.com/dbs http://www.xeikon.com/ http://www.punchinternational.com/ Stora Enso is an integrated paper, packaging and forest products company producing publication and fine papers, packaging boards and wood products, areas in which the Group is a global market leader. Stora Enso sales totalled EUR 12.2 billion in 2003. The Group has some 44 000 employees in more than 40 countries in five continents and an annual production capacity of 15.7 million tonnes of paper and board and 7.4 million cubic metres of sawn wood products, including 2.8 million cubic metres of value-added products. Stora Enso's shares are listed in Helsinki, Stockholm and New York. Stora Enso Oyj Business ID 1039050-8 DATASOURCE: Stora Enso Oyj CONTACT: Ari Lehikoinen, Managing Director, Stora Enso Digital Solutions N.V., +358-400-707-854, or Juha Lehtola, Vice President, New Business Innovations, Stora Enso, Consumer Boards, +358-2046-22153 Web site: http://www.storaenso.com/productnews http://www.storaenso.com/dbs http://www.xeikon.com/ http://www.punchinternational.com/

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