New Joint Venture Stora Enso Digital Solutions

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. [phone]
   Juha Lehtola, Vice President, New Business Innovations, Stora Enso
    Consumer Boards,
   tel. [phone]

  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., [phone], or Juha Lehtola, Vice President, New Business

Innovations, Stora Enso, Consumer Boards, [phone]



Web site:      http://www.storaenso.com/productnews

http://www.storaenso.com/dbs

http://www.xeikon.com/

http://www.punchinternational.com/ 

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