Change in management at Gruvön mill

Change in management at Gruvön mill

In order to strengthen leadership and profitability over the long term at the
Gruvön mill, a new mill manager has been appointed.

Per Bjurbom will take over the post as of 1 December 2007. Per Bjurbom joins
Billerud from Holmen Paper, where he was site manager at the Hallsta mill. He
was also previously site manager at the Skoghall mill, Stora Enso. His
assignment will be to develop Gruvön to meet future challenges and raise
profitability at all levels of the mill.

The current mill manager at Gruvön, Anders Snell, will return to Billerud's head
office in Solna where his new role will be to strengthen Billerud's investment
planning and strengthen the Group's position within energy efficiency, energy
production and the environment.

Solna, August 23, 2007
Billerud AB (publ)



Per Lindberg
President & CEO


For further information, please contact:
Per Lindberg, President & CEO Billerud AB, +46 8 553 335 00

Billerud is a packaging paper company. The company's business concept is to
offer customers packaging materials and solutions that promote and protect their
products - packaging that is attractive, strong and based on renewable
materials. Billerud has a world-leading position within several product segments
including paper for consumer packaging and industrial applications. Production
takes place at three integrated pulp and paper mills in Sweden and at one paper
mill in the UK.