Metsä Board

Metsä Board Leading European Fresh Forest

Fibre Paperboard CompanyMatti Mörsky

12 September 2013

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Content

1. Metsä Board’s Consistent Strategy

2. Profitable Growth of the Paperboard Business

3. Improving the Profitability of Husum

4. Result Development and Outlook

5. Focus Areas

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Metsä Board’s Consistent Strategy

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Metsä Board in Brief

‒ Annual sales about 2.2 b€

‒ Leading European paperboard company

‒ Major uncoated fine and printing paper and market pulp supplier

‒ Valuable holdings in Metsä Fibre and Pohjolan Voima

‒ Global sales and customer service network in 70 countries and nine production units in Finland, Sweden and Germany

‒ Listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd and a part of MetsäGroup, one of the largest forest industry groups in Europe

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Consistent Strategic Direction

‒ Paperboard is Metsä Board’s core business

‒ Good growth potential

‒ Growth through maximising capacity of existing

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‒ Smaller but healthier paper business

‒ Heavy re-engineering and successful

divestments

‒ Extensive fibre know-how and pulp self-sufficiency

‒ Continuous development towards Super Productivity

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Metsä Board’s Future Was Secured by Massive Re-Engineering of the Paper Operations

‒ In 2006, the successful strategic review of the company’s paper

business was started. Our paper capacity then was about 5

million t/a

‒ Closures of 2 million tonnes annual capacity

‒ Divestments worth over 2 b€ incl.

‒ Graphic Papers business for Sappi

‒ Map Merchants for Sequana

‒ New Thames for DS Smith

‒ Material productivity improvement of the remaining paper units

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Metsä Board is Heavily Focused on Paperboard. Paper Business Accounts Only About a Quarter of Total Sales

Sales distribution 2Q 2013

Paperboard 59%Paper 26%

Market pulp 15%

Sales distribution 2006

Paper 56%

Paperboard 18%Paper merchanting26%

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Metsä Board’s Productivity Has Improved by over 60%

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Profitability of Metsä Board’s Core Business is the Best in its Field

Operating result, excl. non-recurring items, % of sales

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Profitable Growth in Paperboard Business

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The Strategy of Metsä Board’s Paperboard Business Has Been Very Successful

‒ Focusing on lightweight fresh forest fibre paperboards

and the brand owner customer segment

‒ Reaching the European market leadership

‒ Securing healthy price level as the market leader

‒ Productivity improved nearly 60% since 2006

EBIT, excl. non-recurring items, % of sales

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Metsä Board’s Main Product, Lightweight and Pure FBB, Is an Excellent Result of Successful Product Development

‒ Folding boxboard is a multilayered packaging material made of fresh forest fibre

‒ Pure and safe folding boxboard is an excellent material also for the most demanding end uses

‒ Metsä Board’s folding boxboards are up to 30% lighter than other paperboards

‒ Metsä Board’s production machinery has been renewed and capacity increased by about 20%

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Growth of the Folding Boxboard Business Proceeding According to Expectations‒ FBB delivery volumes in 1H 2013 over 10 % higher than a year ago

‒ Efficiencies of the FBB machines have developed according to plans‒ There is still room for improvement at all mills

‒ Current products are further improved‒ Further reduction in weight and improvement of product and

service portfolio

‒ New products and end use areas are actively developed

‒ Europe remains our main market but new business is actively pursued also in North America and Asia

‒ Metsä Board is able to increase its FBB capacity further with moderate investments, if market situation so requires

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Metsä Board’s Lightweight Folding Boxboard has Excellent Growth Potential Globally also in the Coming Years

‒ Global cartonboard demand growth 3–4 %/a

‒ Excellent way for consumer goods companies to

improve sustainability with Metsä Board’s ecological

FBB

‒ Threshold for new producers to enter high performance

FBB segment is very high

Share of ecological FBB of total cartonboard market still low in all continents

Europe 34%North America 4%

Asia 22%

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Metsä Board is the World’s Leading Producer of High-Quality Coated White Top Kraftliners

‒ Fresh forest fibre linerboards are used in high-quality corrugated boxes increasingly also in consumer packaging end uses

‒ Metsä Board has strong long time presence both in Europe and North America

‒ Demand is increasing 3–4 % globally. Main growth drivers are sustainability, safety and top class quality

‒ The coating section of the Kemi linerboard mill was upgraded in 2011 and the production will focus mainly on coated grades

‒ The profitability of the Kemi linerboard mill has been improved to a very good level and its capacity is in full use

Metsä Board’s white-top kraftliner deliveries

EMEA 62%

Americas 37%

Asia-Pacific 1%

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Metsä Board Is Increasing Capacity to Grow Its Linerboard Business

‒ Production of light-weight fully bleached uncoated linerboards has been started at Husum mill‒ Linerboard was produced at Husum until early 2000s

‒ Husum’s new products replace partially the mill’s unprofitable paper production and complement Metsä Board’s linerboard portfolio in an excellent way

‒ Kemi mill is further dedicated to coated grades and part of the uncoated volumes are transferred to Husum

‒ Target is to produce min. 80,000 tonnes of kraftliner at Husum in 2014 ‒ About 30,000 t/a to be transferred from Kemi mill which focuses on

coated grades‒ Total deliveries expected to be about 20,000 t/a in 2H 2013

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Improving the Profitability of Husum

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New Measures Taken to Improve Husum’s Profitability Husum is the largest unit in its field in Europe with top class productivity

Increase of pulp production to 750,000 tonnes and paper production to over 800,000 tonnes

New measures to improve profitability are needed due to the difficult situation of the European paper market

New 15 m€ cost savings programme ongoing

New, more profitable products are being developed in addition to current products

Possibilities to participate the European paper industry consolidation are still being surveyed

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Result Development and Outlook

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Operating Result in 2Q 2013 Roughly in Line with the Previous Quarter

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Financial Situation Continues Good

‒ Net debt 606 m€

‒ Net gearing 74%, equity ratio 32.4% at end 2Q 2013

‒ The 500 m€ term loans were drawn and the remaining 450 m€ of the 500 m€ eurobond was repaid in April

‒ Metsä Board’s cash about 130 m€ at end 2Q 2013 and a 100 m€ RCF available

‒ Average interest rate 3.9% at end 2Q 2013

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Short-Term Profitability Outlook

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‒ Metsä Board’s operating result, excluding non-

recurring items, is in the third quarter of 2013

expected to be weaker than in the second quarter of

2013 primarily due to the maintenance shutdowns at

Husum and Kemi mills

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Focus Areas

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Key Focus Areas in 2013

1. Fully benefit the potential of the expanded folding boxboard capacity

2. Develop even more ecological paperboards and expand the current product range

3. Improve profitability and cash flow of the current paper mills

Husum, Kyro Paper and Gohrsmühle

4. Increase the amount of contractual market pulp customers

5. New measures towards Super Productivity and best in class supply chain

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Thank You!