Rock-Tenn Company Bleached Paperboard Price Increase

Rock-Tenn Company provides a wide range of marketing and packaging solutions to consumer products companies.

05/05/06 NORCROSS, Ga.--Rock-Tenn Company began notifying customers on April 25 that the prices of CartonMate(R) SBS paperboard products will increase $40 per ton effective with shipments May 29, 2006.

Rock-Tenn Company provides a wide range of marketing and packaging solutions to consumer products companies at low costs, with combined pro forma net sales of approximately $2.1 billion and operating locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Chile. The Company is one of North America's leading manufacturers of packaging products, merchandising displays and bleached and recycled paperboard.