Chad Wasilenkoff, CEO of Fortress Paper Ltd. commented, "The commencement of production at the Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill marks the achievement of an important milestone at Thurso. We are pleased that production has commenced ahead of schedule and this will enable us to take advantage of the current strong NBHK pulp prices."

Fortress Specialty's Thurso mill is expected to produce approximately 250,000 air dried metric tons/year of high-grade NBHK pulp. Fortress Specialty intends to produce NBHK pulp while undergoing transformation to become a dissolving pulp producer in mid 2011.

Fortress Paper produces security and other specialty papers and products.