Business profile

Ilim Group is the leading Russian pulp and paper company.

The Company ranks second in Europe and seventh globally in terms of market pulp production.

Ilim Group is also the largest company in Europe and sixth globally in terms of forest resources and harvesting volumes.

Products

The total annual pulp and paper production volume of the Company exceeds 2.5 million tons.

Shipments to China exceed 900 thousand tons per year.

The Group's mills account for more than 65% of the total market pulp production in Russia and over 25% of board.

The Group's share in the total domestic pulp and paper production exceeds 27%.

Within five years the Company will be manufacturing one of every four containerboard boxes and one of every four sheets of office paper in Russia.

The Company's share in Chinese import is 22.8% for kraftliner and 15.9% for softwood pulp.

The leased timber land area is 4.7 million hectares.

Wood harvested annually by own logging enterprises: over 7 million m3.

Total area of FSC-certified forests: 4.1 million hectares.

Investment program — over USD 2 billion.

Annual financial reporting standard: IFRS. Turnover — 1.8 billion (as of 2007).