Canfor Completes Purchase of Elliott Sawmilling Company Inc.

The sharp rise in gas and electricity prices has a direct impact on our manufacturing costs and profitability. Due to this extraordinary situation, an energy cost surcharge is unfortunately unavoidable. We will therefore impose an energy cost surcharge of up to EUR 10/100kg in all our product segments. This will apply to all deliveries from December 1, 2021, and until further notice.

The Navigator Company announced today that it will increase tissue prices by 8 to 10% in the Iberian markets and above 10% outside Iberia. This increase will be effective for all dispatches from 1st of December. The Company will inform its clients shortly about the details of the new prices to be applied. This decision was taken following the generalised and very significant price hikes in many input cost, notably in commodities like chemical products, packaging products (plastics and containerboard), logistics, and pulp, being the latter the main cost factor for tissue production. The world index for pulp increased, to this date, 78% since January. Electricity costs are 3,6 times higher than in 2020 in Portugal; natural gas is 5,8 times higher. Similar trend is verified across all European countries.

H1 2020 highlights *Sales decreased by 18% to EUR 4,364 million (5,298 million in H1 2019) due to lower deliveries of graphic papers and lower pulp and paper sales prices *Comparable EBIT decreased by 33% to EUR 482 million (719 million), and was 11.0% (13.6%) of sales *UPM's transformative pulp project in Uruguay and biochemicals project in Germany are well on track with the planned start-up timeline *Operating cash flow was EUR 293 million (756 million) *Net debt decreased to EUR 301 million (366 million) *Cash funds and unused committed credit facilities totalled EUR 2.0 billion at the end of June