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Tembec Inc. (“Tembec”) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tembec Industries Inc. (the “Company”), commenced an offer to exchange (the “exchange offer”) up to US $50 million in aggregate principal amount of the Company’s outstanding 11.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 issued in February 2012 (the “initial notes”) that are tendered in the exchange offer for an equal principal amount of 11.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 that have been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
 
As previously announced, the initial notes were issued as additional notes under the Company’s indenture dated as of August 17, 2010 pursuant to transactions exempt from registration under the Securities Act. The exchange offer is being made to eligible holders of the initial notes pursuant to the requirements of a registration rights agreement entered into by the Company in connection with the issuance of the initial notes.
 
A Form F-10 registration statement filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) regarding the exchange offer was declared effective by the SEC. As described in the registration statement, the exchange offer will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 24, 2012, unless extended by the Company. 
 
This press release is neither an offer to sell nor the solicitation of an offer to buy any security and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of any security in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.  Initial notes may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws.
 
A copy of the registration statement and other materials related to the exchange offer may be obtained on request from the Company at 800 René-Lévesque Boulevard West, Suite 1050, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 1X9, attention: Corporate Secretary.
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Fortress Paper Ltd. a leading producer of security and specialty papers, in a major strategic move today announces the signing of an asset purchase agreement (“APA”) to acquire the assets of a northern bleached hardwood kraft manufacturing facility located in Thurso, Quebec from Fraser Papers Inc. with the intention to convert this operation into a world class, low cost, specialty cellulose (dissolving pulp) operation. Concurrently, Fortress Paper intends to build a biomass-based cogeneration plant at the Thurso Mill which will produce green electricity resulting in material net energy savings.

Upon closing of the acquisition of the Thurso Mill, which will be completed through its wholly-owned subsidiary Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc, the Corporation intends to incur capital expenditures of approximately $153 million to convert the non-operating NBHK mill into a high quality specialty cellulose mill and to construct a new cogeneration facility. In connection with the proposed capital expenditures, Fortress Paper is pleased to announce that it has pre-arranged specific financing initiatives to fund the conversion and cogeneration projects.

The specialty cellulose mill is planned to have an annual production capacity of more than 200,000 air dried metric tonnes and is expected to be completed in mid-2011. In entering into the specialty cellulose sector, Fortress Specialty will focus on producing dissolving grade cellulose for the textile industry, primarily targeting viscose fibre (rayon) products which have shown strong growth of approximately 10% in China and 7% worldwide over the past five years. Rayon is a technically evolved and versatile fibre with many advantages, particularly in the warmer and higher growth regions of the world.

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