NewPage to Initiate Downtime at Port Hawkesbury Mill

MIAMISBURG, OH—August 22, 2011—NewPage Corp. has decided, based on its assessment of current market and economic conditions, to take downtime on both paper machines at its Port Hawkesbury mill in Nova Scotia, Canada. The downtime will begin Sept. 10 for the mill’s PM1 newsprint machine and Sept. 16 for the PM2 supercalendered machine.