Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc.

Canton, North Carolina, USA, 01 November 2006 --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc. (Bloomberg: bluerd) announced today it will host a conference call for investors to discuss the Third Quarter 2006 results and current market conditions at 11 a.m. EST on 10 November 2006.

To participate in the conference call, dial 877-407-9205. A taped replay of the conference call will be available after 5:00 p.m. 10 November 2006, until 24 November 2006. The number to call for the taped replay is 877-660-6853, the account code is 286 and the conference ID number is 219256.

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 four packaging plants.