Blue Ridge Paper Products Announces Investor Conference Call.

CANTON, N.C. -- Blue Ridge Paper Products (Bloomberg: bluerd) announced today it will host a conference call for investors to discuss second quarter 2005 results and current market conditions at 11:00 a.m. EST, Tuesday, August 16, 2005.

To participate in the conference call, dial [phone]. A taped replay of the conference call will be available after 5:00pm Tuesday, August 16,2005 until August 30, 2005. The number to call for the taped replay is [phone], the account code is 286 and the conference ID# is 164708.

Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc., headquartered in Canton, North Carolina, is a vertically integrated manufacturer of specialty paperboard packaging products and a broad range of specialty and commodity grades of paperboard and paper products. The company is a leading North American producer of gable top cartons used for packaging juice, milk and other products and of ovenable paperboard used for heating packaged foods in microwave and conventional ovens. The company's products also include polymer-coated bleached paperboard (including cup stock), envelope paper, specialty and offset printing paper and uncoated bleached paperboard. Blue Ridge Paper Products owns and operates a pulp and paper mill, an extrusion polymer coating facility and five packaging plants.