Friday, July 20, 2007

Stora Enso Bid to Eclipse Record Value Turns on Brazilian Eucalyptus Trees

(Bloomberg) -- Stora Enso Oyj's prospects for a
return to record stock prices of seven years ago are growing in
South American forests far from the Finnish papermaker's
traditional timberlands.

The world's second-biggest papermaker may have found an
answer to higher fiber prices that have been eating up profit.
Stora is planting and harvesting faster-maturing trees, such as
eucalyptus, in Brazil and Uruguay to guarantee a source of less-
expensive wood pulp.


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