VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – June 8, 2010)

Fortress Paper Ltd. (“Fortress Paper” or the “Company”) (TSX:FTP), announces that it has entered into a financing agreement with a syndicate of underwriters led by Dundee Securities Corporation and including Jennings Capital Inc., Raymond James Ltd., and TD Securities Inc. (the “Underwriters”). Pursuant to the agreement, the Underwriters have agreed to purchase, on a bought deal basis, 1,739,000 common shares (“Shares”) of the Company priced at $23.50 per Share (the “Offering Price”), for total gross proceeds of $40,866,500 (the “Offering”).

The Company has agreed to grant the Underwriters an over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 260,850 common shares of the Company at the Offering Price, exercisable in whole or in part, at any time on or prior to the date that is 30 days following the closing of the Offering. If the over-allotment option is exercised in full, the aggregate gross proceeds of the Offering will be $46,996,475.

Fortress Paper intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to finance certain capital expenditures relating to its Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill in Thurso, Quebec and its rebuild of papermachine number 1 at its Landqart Mill, and for working capital and general corporate purposes.

The Offering is expected to close on or about July 9, 2010 and is subject to certain customary conditions including, but not limited to, the receipt of all necessary regulatory and stock exchange approvals, including the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the applicable securities regulatory authorities. The offering will be made in Canada by way of a short form prospectus and may be made in jurisdictions outside of Canada on a private placement basis pursuant to prospectus and registration exemptions in accordance with applicable laws. The Company intends to file a preliminary short form prospectus relating to the offering with the applicable securities regulatory authorities in Canada in due course.

The securities being offered have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United StatesSecurities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities in the United States.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 7, 2010 – Fortress Paper Ltd. (“Fortress Paper” or the “Corporation”) announces the signing of a purchase agreement by its wholly owned subsidiary, Fortress Specialty Cellulose Ltd. (“Fortress Specialty”) with Stora Enso Oyi Cellulose Inc. to acquire digesters, specialized process equipment and other ancillary equipment to be used in the conversion of its Thurso mill to produce dissolving pulp.

The agreement provides for a purchase price of Euro 3 Million (CAD $3.8Million) and includes the purchase and delivery of a complete displacement cooking plant consisting of 3 batch digesters, liquor accumulators and various associated specialty process equipment and piping.

Chad Wasilenkoff Chief Executive Officer of Fortress Paper, commented: “After spending a considerable amount of time assessing and evaluating the equipment, we are very pleased to be able to secure this equipment. This equipment has operated for only 12 years and we are confident of its quality and performance, which should result in a material reduction in our overall capital investment requirements for the conversion to dissolving pulp. We also believe that by acquiring almost an entire batch cooking system, we reduce the process risk for this transformation. At this time it is still too early to determine the impact this new equipment will have on the completion date.”

About Fortress Paper

Fortress Paper is a leading international producer of security and other specialty papers and products. Fortress Paper operates three mills, the Landqart Mill located in Switzerland, the Dresden Mill located in Germany and the Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill located in Quebec, Canada. Fortress Paper’s security papers include banknote, passport and visa papers and its specialty papers include non-woven wallpaper base products, and graphic and technical papers. Fortress Paper’s pulp business will include NBHK with the re-start of the Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill with plans to convert this capacity into dissolving pulp production along with the construction of a biomass based cogeneration plant.

TORONTO — Fraser Papers has completed the sale of its two Canadian mills, located at Thurso, Que. and Edmunston, N.B., in two separate transactions, leaving the insolvent paper company with no Canadian pulp and paper operations.

The Thurso mill was sold to Fortress Paper. The Edmunston facility was sold as part of the specialty papers business, along with a mill in Madawaska, Maine, and two New Brunswick sawmills, to Twin Rivers Paper Company. Twin Rivers was formed by creditors of Fraser Papers.

Once Fraser Papers sells its remaining U.S. assets, the company will use the proceeds to settle the remaining secured claims, prior to distributing any remaining proceeds to unsecured creditors.

Fraser Papers was formed in 2004, from some assets of Norbord.

SOURCE:
Pulp And Paper Canada: “Fraser Papers Exits Canadian Scene After Six Years”

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 11 2010 – Fortress Paper Ltd. (“Fortress Paper” or the “Company”) (TSX:FTP) reported adjusted net income of $3.0 million for the first quarter of 2010 on sales of $50.3 million or adjusted earnings per share of $0.30. In the first quarter of 2009 the Company reported adjusted net income of $2.5 million on sales of $46.6 million or adjusted earnings per share of $0.25. For the fourth quarter of 2009 the Company reported adjusted net income of $4.8 million on sales of $51.0 million or adjusted earnings per share of $0.47.

Analysis of Specific Items Affecting Comparability of Net Income

EBITDA was $5.8 million or 11.5% of sales for the three months ended March 31, 2010. For the three months ended March 31, 2009 EBITDA was $5.0 million or 10.8% of sales. EBITDA was $7.9 million or 15.4% of sales for the three months ended December 31, 2009.

In the first quarter of 2010 the Dresden mill continued to experience strong sales and earnings throughout the quarter. The Landqart mill results reflected the product mix during the quarter. The banknote paper machine remains full and the conversion of paper machine one from a specialty paper machine to a banknote paper machine is on track. The increase in EBITDA relative to the prior year comparative period was partially due to the global financial and economic crisis which impacted sales early in 2009.

EBITDA is defined as net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation, amortization, non-operating income and expenses and stock based compensation which the Company considers to be a key performance indicator. EBITDA is not a generally accepted earnings measure and should not be considered as an alternative to earnings or cash flows as determined in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles. As there is no standardized method of calculating EBITDA, the Company’s use for the term may not be comparable with similarly titled measures used by other companies.

Chadwick Wasilenkoff, chief executive officer of Fortress Paper, states: ”This is an exciting time for the Company. The recently announced acquisition of the Thurso mill will diversify our specialty product mix and we believe will provide a significant financial contribution to Fortress’s growth aspirations. We plan to ramp up operations at the Thurso mill while we immediately begin the conversion into a dissolving pulp operation. The Dresden mill continues to perform extremely well, while the Landqart mill is experiencing results which are reflective of the current product mix of banknotes which offer lower margins.”

Selected Financial Information

The selected financial information presented herein is qualified in its entirety by, and should be read in conjunction with, our audited consolidated financial statements as at and for the year ended December 31, 2009 and the related notes thereon and our Management’s Discussion and Analysis filed on SEDAR.

Three Months Ended March 31, 2010
Selected Financial Information and Statistics

Operational Results

Landqart produces various security and specialty papers. Security paper production includes banknote paper which results in varying degrees of EBITDA margin depending on the complexity of the features included. During 2008 Landqart also started producing non-woven wallpaper base. Included in Landqart’s sales number for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 is approximately 1,581 tonnes of non-woven wallpaper base. At the Landqart mill the order log for security papers remains stable.

At the Dresden mill, the wallpaper base market experienced continued strength throughout the quarter. Sales tonnage has increased relative to the prior year comparative periods and profitability remains solid.

Subsequent Events

On April 30, 2010 the Company completed the purchase of a northern bleached hardwood kraft pulp mill located in Thurso, Quebec from Fraser Papers Inc. through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc. (“Fortress Specialty Cellulose”), for the net proceeds of approximately $1.2 million. The Company has announced the intention of converting this mill into a specialty cellulose (dissolving pulp) operation and to build a biomass-based cogeneration plant. The valuation of this acquisition for accounting purposes and the effect on the financial statements of the Company are still being determined.

Concurrent with this acquisition the Company finalized $102.4 million in project financing with a term of 10 years secured by the assets of Fortress Specialty Cellulose. Interest will be calculated at a fixed rate of 5.0% per annum for the first five years, followed by a rate of up to 5.5% for the remaining 5 years.

Also concurrent with this acquisition Fortress Paper issued a $15 million convertible debenture to a financial institution. The convertible debt matures in five years with an interest rate of 7% per annum. The debenture is convertible, in whole or in part, at the option of the holder into common shares of Fortress Paper at any time at a conversion price equal to $20.00 per share. Fortress Paper can redeem the debenture, in whole or in part, at any point after two years at a conversion price of not less than $25.00 per share.

The Company

Fortress Paper is a leading international producer of security and other specialty papers. The Company operates two paper mills, the Landqart mill located in Switzerland and the Dresden mill located in Germany. The Company’s security papers include banknote, passport and visa papers and its specialty papers include non-woven wallpaper base products, and graphic and technical papers. As an extension of its security papers business, the Landqart mill has been actively developing and marketing innovative paper-based security products.

Conference Call

A conference call to discuss the financial results for the first quarter 2010 will be held on May 12, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. (PST). To attend the conference call, please dial one of the following numbers:

North America: 1-877-353-9586

International: 1-403-532-8075

Participant pass code: 90198#

A replay of the conference call will be available for 7 days. To access the replay, listeners may dial 1-877-245-4531 from North America or 403-205-4531 International. The pass code to access the replay is 347381#.

For more information, please contact

Fortress Paper Ltd.
Mr. Chadwick Wasilenkoff
Chief Executive Officer
604-904-2328

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 10 2010 – Fortress Paper Ltd. www.fortresspaper.com (“Fortress Paper” or the “Corporation”) (TSX:FTP) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc. (“Fortress Specialty”) has entered into a pulp purchase and sale agreement (the “Agreement”) with International Forest Products Corp. (“IFP”) of Foxboro, Massachusetts.

Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, IFP will be the exclusive distributor for the sale of northern bleached hardwood kraft (“NBHK”) pulp produced at the Thurso Mill for the duration of such production.

The Thurso Mill is expected to commence commercial production in June of this year and is anticipated to produce approximately 250,000 air dry metric tonnes of high quality NBHK pulp per year. The re-start plans are on track and the mill expects to promptly deliver the high quality that it was well known for in the market place.

“Everyone at International Forest Products Corporation (IFP) is extremely pleased to be working with Fortress Paper on this exciting venture,” said Daniel Kraft, President and CEO of IFP. ”This relationship will align IFP with one of the world’s premier specialty paper producers.”

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 6, 2010 – Fortress Paper Ltd. (“Fortress Paper” or the “Corporation”) announced today that it has signed, through its wholly‑owned subsidiary, Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc. (“FSC”), an Energy Supply Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Hydro Québec for the sale of green electricity to be produced at the Thurso Mill upon completion of a biomass-based cogeneration facility.

Under the Agreement, the Company will construct a cogeneration facility to provide net 18.8 megawatts of green power to Hydro Québec over a 15 year term, with deliveries estimated to commence in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Chadwick Wasilenkoff, CEO of Fortress Paper, states, “The signing of the Agreement represents an important step in achieving our business plan at the Thurso Mill, which includes the building of a cogeneration plant that produces green electricity that in turn will ultimately benefit Québec residents.  We believe that the results of this partnership with Hydro Québec will be beneficial to the environment and the economy of Québec, as well as providing net energy savings (income) to Fortress Paper.”

The Agreement is subject to final approval by the Régie de l’énergie in Québec which is expected to be received in the third quarter of 2010.

About Fortress Paper

Fortress Paper is a leading international producer of security and other specialty papers. Fortress Paper operates three mills, the Landqart Mill located in Switzerland, the Dresden Mill located in Germany and the Thurso Mill located in Canada. Fortress Paper’s security papers include banknote, passport and visa papers and its specialty papers include non-woven wallpaper base products, and graphic and technical papers. Fortress Paper’s pulp business currently includes NBHK with plans to convert this capacity into dissolving pulp production. Fortress Paper plans to build a biomass based cogeneration plant at the Thurso Mill.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 30, 2010 – Fortress Paper Ltd. (“Fortress Paper” or the “Corporation”), a leading producer of security and specialty papers, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its acquisition of the assets of a northern bleached hardwood kraft (“NBHK”) manufacturing facility located in Thurso, Quebec (the “Thurso Mill”) from Fraser Papers Inc. (“Fraser”) for net proceeds of approximately $1.2 million.    With this successful acquisition, Fortress Paper will commence the conversion of the Thurso Mill into a world class, low cost, specialty cellulose (dissolving pulp) operation.  Concurrently, Fortress Paper intends to build a biomass-based cogeneration plant at the Thurso Mill which will produce green electricity resulting in material net energy savings (income).

Chad Wasilenkoff, CEO of Fortress Paper, states, “We are pleased to announce the transaction has closed. We intend to move aggressively to ramp up operations at the Thurso Mill and anticipate production of NBHK to commence in mid June of this year during the interim period while we immediately begin the conversion of the Thurso Mill into a dissolving pulp operation.  We are finalizing the terms of employment with several key individuals with extensive experience in dissolving pulp conversions and should be able to provide more details on this matter in the coming weeks.  This acquisition will diversify our specialty product mix and we believe will provide a significant financial contribution to Fortress’ growth aspirations.”

The acquisition of the Thurso Mill has been completed through its wholly-owned subsidiary Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc. (“Fortress Specialty”).  The Corporation intends to incur capital expenditures of approximately $153 million to convert the non‑operating NBHK mill into a high quality specialty cellulose mill and to construct a new cogeneration facility.

Concurrent with the completion of the acquisition the Company has finalized $102.4 million project financing with Investissement Québec (“IQ”) and a $15 million convertible debenture (the “Debenture”) with Solidarity Fund QFL.  Additionally, included in the assets being purchased is approximately $9.9 million in credits (black liquor credits) granted under the Canadian government’s Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. Fortress Paper also intends to apply for approximately $15.2 million in federal credits under the Green Infrastructure Fund program of the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure & Communities relating to the planned cogeneration project.

New collective agreements have been negotiated with all three unions which will be in effect until 2016.  The defined benefit pension plan which existed under the previous collective agreements has been replaced with a defined contribution pension plan, eliminating the risk of future unfunded pension liabilities.  Under these new agreements, Fortress will not be assuming any of the previous pension liabilities.  Management is confident that these agreements will ensure a positive partnership with the union and a stable, efficient cost structure through the transition into dissolving pulp.

Further Details:

Fortress Paper has completed a loan agreement whereby Investissement Québec has agreed to provide up to $102.4 million to Fortress Specialty to support the proposed business plan in respect of the Thurso Mill. The loan is secured by the capital assets of Fortress Specialty and has a term of 10 years. Interest will be calculated at a fixed rate of 5.0% per annum for the first five years, followed by a rate based on the cost of IQ’s funds plus 2.0% for the remaining five years, up to a maximum of 5.5% per annum.

Fortress Paper has also issued a $15 million convertible debenture (the “Debenture”) to Solidarity Fund QFL.  The convertible debt matures in five years with an interest rate of 7% per annum.  The Debenture is convertible, in whole or in part, at the option of Solidarity Fund QFL into common shares of Fortress Paper at any time after closing of the debenture at a conversion price equal to $20.00.

The Solidarity Fund QFL is a development capital company that channels the savings of Québec residents into investments in all sectors of the economy to help create and maintain jobs and to further Québec’s economic growth. The Fund is a partner, either directly or through its network members, in approximately 2,000 companies.

The specialty cellulose mill is planned to have an annual production capacity of more than 200,000 air dried metric tonnes and is expected to be completed in mid-2011. In entering into the specialty cellulose sector, Fortress Specialty will focus on producing dissolving grade cellulose for the textile industry, primarily targeting viscose fibre (rayon) products which have shown strong growth of approximately 10% in China and 7% worldwide over the past five years. Rayon is a technically evolved and versatile fibre with many advantages, particularly in the warmer and higher growth regions of the world.

Fortress Paper also plans to construct an approximately 25 megawatt cogeneration facility to service a net 18.8 megawatt power supply agreement over a 15 year term. The location of the cogeneration facility provides it with access to on‑site generation of biomass and an extensive local network of chip and other biomass suppliers. The cogeneration facility is expected to be supplying electricity in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Over the past few weeks The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business section has been taking a look at company stocks that tend to do well in the early stages of an economic rebound. According to Globe and Mail analysts, microcap companies – publicly traded companies that have a market capitalization of roughly US$250 million or less – tend to thrive in these post-crisis conditions.

This week, The Globe and Mail selected Fortress Paper as a microcap company poised to do big things in the coming months:

Fortress Paper Ltd., which has mills in Germany and Switzerland, makes security (such as currency notes) and specialty papers as well as wallpaper.

“It definitely has above-average profitability compared to other businesses that operate in the pulp-and-paper segment,” said Ralph Lindenblatt of Bissett Investment Management, a unit of Franklin Templeton Investments Corp.

The stock is “very attractively valued,” trading at 11 times trailing earnings, he added.

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The Globe and Mail: “Microcap growth at a reasonable price”