ROTTNEROS TO INCREASE PULP PRICES FOR CTMP

Like several other producers on the market Rottneros will also raise the price for the NBSK pulp quality to 480 USD/tonne in Europe.

Increased demand for the mentioned qualities, combined with realized declines in production with several producers, has led to a better balanced market creating room for rise in prices.

This is the first increase in list prices since July 2002 for the qualities mentioned.

Upplands Väsby 13 January 2002

ROTTNEROS AB (Publ.)

For further information call CEO Lars Blecko, tel. +46 8 5900 1010

Rottneros is one of the world’s leading independent manufacturers of market pulp. The Group consists of the parent company, Rottneros AB, which is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, along with its subsidiaries of Rottneros Rockhammar AB, Utansjö Bruk AB and Vallviks Bruk in Sweden as well as Rottneros Miranda, S.A. in Spain, with activities involving production and sales of market pulp, Rockhammar Timber AB, which produces and sells sawn timber, plus the raw materials purchasing company of Rottneros Baltic SIA in Latvia. The Group has a total of 880 employees and a turnover of approximately SEK 2.7 billion.