NewPage offering new uncoated paper products

MIAMISBURG, OH, Aug. 25, 2009 (PRNewswire) - NewPage Corporation announced today the expansion of its uncoated offering with the launch of two new products, Octane and High Octane.

Octane is an 80 bright, uncoated mechanical paper produced in Whiting, Wisconsin and is engineered for both heatset and coldset printing applications such as advertising inserts, book publishing, coupons, maps and magazines. Octane is manufactured for excellent printability with extensive ink mileage and has a standard offering in 35 lb., 38 lb., 40 lb. and 45 lb.

High Octane, an 84 bright, uncoated freesheet paper produced in Rumford, Maine is manufactured for heatset presses in a range of basis weights from 35 lb. to 45 lb. and is suitable for a wide spectrum of end uses such as newsletters, flyers, direct mail, commercial printing, place mats and maps.

"We are very excited about these new products," said Lee Bendtsen, general manager, middle-weight web for NewPage. "The initial customer response has been extremely positive and the products have demonstrated excellent press performance with image reproduction that is far superior to comparable sheets in the market."

For more information about Octane and High Octane, please contact your local NewPage merchant representative or visit us at www.NewPageCorp.com. If you would like a product sell sheet, please call NewPage ExSamples(®) at 800-638-3313.

About NewPage Corporation

Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage Corporation is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with $4.4 billion in net sales for the year ended December 31, 2008. The company's product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint and specialty papers. These papers are used for corporate collateral, commercial printing, magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, newspapers, packaging applications and direct mail advertising.

NewPage owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia, Canada. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 4.4 million tons of paper, including approximately 3.2 million tons of coated paper, approximately 1.0 million tons of uncoated paper and approximately 200,000 tons of specialty paper.