Buckeye Technologies Inc. Announces Earnings Conference Call; Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 10:30 a.m. ET, 9:30 a.m. CT.

Business Editors

MEMPHIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2004

Buckeye Technologies Inc. (NYSE:BKI), will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter results on Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time (9:30 a.m. Central Time).

                            Conference Call

                       BUCKEYE TECHNOLOGIES INC.

                         Third Quarter Results

                We have scheduled a conference call for

                       Wednesday, April 21, 2004
                           9:30 a.m. Central

           Management participating on the call will include

               David B. Ferraro, Chief Executive Officer
         John B. Crowe, President and Chief Operating Officer
  Kristopher J. Matula, Exec. Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
            Gordon B. Mitchell, Investor Relations Manager

All interested parties are invited to listen to the audio conference call live or tape delayed via the website www.streetevents.com or via the Company's website homepage at www.bkitech.com. The replay will be archived on these websites through May 20, 2004.

In addition, persons interested in listening by telephone may dial in at [phone] within the United States. International callers should dial [phone]. Participants should call no later than 9:25 a.m. CT.

To listen to the telephone replay of the conference call, dial [phone] or [phone]. The passcode is 444134. The telephone replay will be available until midnight May 7, 2004.

A press release will be issued via Business Wire after the market closes on April 20. If you do not receive a copy of this release, please contact Gordon Mitchell at [phone].

We look forward to your participation.

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at Buckeye's web site at www.bkitech.com.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments(R) (Fidelity.com) and others. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). StreetEvents allows institutional investors to identify, organize, and track the hundreds of conference calls that occur each day during earnings season, to download events of interest to their Outlook calendar, and to RSVP to events online.