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Fraser Papers Announces Temporary Shutdown of Edmundston Pulp Mill

Wednesday 18. February 2009 - Fraser Papers Inc. ("Fraser Papers" or the "Company") (TSX:FPS) announced today that it will take two weeks of market-related downtime at its pulp mill operations in Edmundston, New Brunswick, effective February 23, 2009.

The Edmundston pulp mill produces sulphite and groundwood pulp for the Company’s integrated paper mill in Madawaska, Maine, where the Company continues to rotate downtime across its six specialty paper machines in order to match customer orders with production. The Company’s ability to meet customer requirements is unaffected by this announcement. The Edmundston biomass cogeneration facility will operate through this period providing steam to the paper mill and electrical power to the New Brunswick grid.