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ABITIBIBOWATER AND STARCOM ENTER INTO EXCLUSIVE SALES AGREEMENT

Tuesday 02. December 2008 - AbitibiBowater and Starcom Paperworks announced today that they have entered into an exclusive sales agreement for the sale of AbitibiBowater's ECOLASER(TM) and ECOPAQUE LASER(TM) papers in the forms channel. As a result of the agreement, Starcom has formed abSTAR, which will act as the exclusive distributor for these products in the North American business forms market.

abSTAR’s focus will be to provide ECOLASER and ECOPAQUE LASER in converted laser rolls to high-volume forms printing and forms data centers. “These products were designed for demanding laser applications. They are economical, environmentally friendly and designed to perform,” stated abStar’s President Chris Lederer. “We already have several large customers using ECOLASER and ECOPAQUE LASER. In time, these papers are going to transform data centers and the forms business in general.”

In addition, abSTAR will offer these AbitibiBowater product lines to select distributors, and focus on government, hospital and corporate markets for forms applications like stock tab and other computer papers, punched and perforated laser cut sheets, engineering rolls, and a range of custom-printed business forms.

ECOLASER and ECOPAQUE LASER are AbitibiBowater’s newest innovative, cost-effective and environmentally friendly papers for laser printing. This line of papers uses 50 percent less wood fiber than traditional bond paper for the equivalent printing surface area and generates half the greenhouse gases of a comparable bond. Because of their high opacity, lower basis weights of these papers can be used, which gives the potential to provide significant mailing savings to large business mailers.