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RAFLATALK EXPRESS 3Raflatac in briefOne of the world’s leading suppliers of paper-based and filmic pressure sensitive labelstock, Raflatac develops and manufactureslabel materials for a wide variety of needs in product and information labelling.Raflatac began the production of pressure sensitive labelstock in the early 1970s at its factory in Tampere, Finland. The company’scommitment to finding environmentally sound solutions resulted in new propriety production technology and solventfreelabelling solutions – developments that have shaped the labelling world.Today, the company has factories in nine countries in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Africa. A comprehensive globalnetwork of sales offices and terminals brings Raflatac products and services closer to its customers – label converters, printersand paper merchants as well as end-users. In China, Raflatac has a production unit in Shanghai, a terminal in Tianjin and a salesoffice in Beijing.In accordance with Raflatac’s strategy, the company continuously invests in the labelstock business to further strengthen itsposition and to provide better products and services to its customers. In China, Raflatac will build a world class pressure sensitivelabelstock production facility in Changshu in the Jiangsu province. The total value of the investment is approx. USD 40 millionwith a start-up target in early 2007. Furthermore, Raflatac’s ongoing expansion includes the start-up of a second laminationline in the US during the fourth quarter of 2005. The approx. USD 40 million investment will further strengthen the company’sposition in the North American labelstock market.With around 2,200 employees and a turnover of USD 990 million in 2004, Raflatac is a prime contender for the global numberone market position. Raflatac is part of the UPM Group, one of the largest forest industry companies in the world. This relationshipprovides an in-house knowledge of papermaking and wide ranging R&D expertise for product development. Raflatac’s subsidiary,UPM Rafsec, is at the global forefront of high-volume RFID tag production and a pioneer of the EPC standard. UPM Rafsec hasproduction facilities in Finland and the US as well as sales offices in the US, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore and China.UPM in briefUPM-Kymmene Corporation, a company with over a hundred years of history, is one of the largest international forestry groupsin the world. The company manufactures paper, converted products and wood products. UPM’s headquarters is located inHelsinki, Finland and the company is listed on the stock markets in Helsinki and New York. UPM has production plants in 15countries in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia employing a total of 33,400 people. UPM has an extensive sales networkaround the world. The Group turnover was around 13 billion USD in 2004.UPM is the largest magazine and printing papers manufacturerin the world. The paper production capacityis 12.5 million tons. UPM ’s self-adhesive labelstock andplywood are leaders in their respective fields.UPM in ChinaUPM has established a large-scale paper mill and twopaper converting plants in China and is continuously extendingits sales network.UPM-Kymmene (Changshu) Paper Industry Co., Ltd.is a wholly owned subsidiary of UPM located in JiangsuProvince, China operating a modern, large-scale highqualityfine paper mill. This paper mill is the single largestFinnish investment project in China, with the totalinvestment exceeding USD one billion. After the start upof the second phase in May 2005, the annual productioncapacity Changshu of UPM Changshu mill is 800,000 tons of printing and office papers.There are two UPM paper converting plants in China, Raflatac (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. manufacturing labelstock and WalkiWisaPackaging Paper (Changshu) Co., Ltd., manufacturing industrial packaging materials. UPM Wood has a representative office inShanghai responsible for the sales of plywood.

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