Stora Enso - looking to the future

Creating value
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 43 000 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 serves its mainly business-to-business customers through its own global sales and marketing network. A global presence provides local customer service. Customers are large and small publishers, printing houses and merchants, as well as the packaging, joinery and construction industries worldwide. The main markets are Europe, North America and Asia.

The Group has production facilities in Europe, North America and Asia. Its modern production capacity and the good integration between raw material, energy and efficient processes ensure production continuity.

Stora Enso is committed to developing its business towards ecological, social and economic sustainability. This commitment is demonstrated through its values and its environmental and social esponsibility policy, and has been recognised by selection for the Dow Jones DJSI World and DJSI STOXX sustainability indexes since they were launched in 1999. Stora Enso had the highest score in this sustainability ranking among forest products companies in 2003. Stora Enso is also included in the FTSE4Good index.

WORLD

    Country  Group Company                   Total Paper &

                                                               Board Capacity

                                                               in 1000T                 %

   1     FIN         Stora Enso                                               15591                 4.4

   2     USA       International Paper                                15045                 4.2

   3     FIN         UPM                                                          11831                 3.3

   4     JPN       Oji                                                              9920                    2.8

   5     USA       Georgia-Pacific                                       9180                    2.6

   6     USA       Weyerhaeuser                                        8605                    2.4

   7     JPN       Nippon Unipac                                        8208                    2.3

   8     USA       Smurfit-Stone Container                       7927                    2.2

   9     CAN       Abitibi-Consolidated                              7150                    2.0

10     FIN         M-real                                                        6476                    1.8

11     SWE      SCA                                                           6253                    1.8

12     SGP       Asia Pulp & Paper                                  6161                    1.7

13     NOR      Norske Skog                                           5746                    1.6

14     USA       MeadWestvaco                                       5672                    1.6

15     IRL         Jefferson Smurfit                                    5065                    1.4

                         TOTAL CAPACITY OF WORLD            357308              

EUROPE

    Country  Group Company                   Total Paper &

                                                               Board Capacity

                                                               in 1000T                 %

   1     FIN         Stora Enso                                               12791                 10.6

   2     FIN         UPM                                                          10686                 8.9

   3     FIN         M-real                                                        6476                    5.4

   4     SWE      SCA                                                           5743                    4.8

   5     IRL         Jefferson Smurfit                                    3892                    3.2

   6     NOR      Norske Skog                                           3750                    3.1

   7     NLD       Kappa Packaging                                   3395                    2.8

   8     ZAF        Mondi                                                        3309                    2.7

   9     ITA         Burgo Corporation                                 2605                    2.2

10     ZAF        Sappi                                                        2605                    2.2

11     FIN         Myllykoski                                                 2455                    2.0

12     SWE      Holmen                                                    2380                    2.0

13     USA       International Paper                                1730                    1.4

14     FRA       Lecta Group                                             1605                    1.3

15     AUT       Mayr-Melnhof                                           1505                    1.2

                         TOTAL CAPACITY OF EUROPE          120655                

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