Borregaard has experienced an unforeseen outage at a facility at the Sarpsborg
site, which supplies a key chemical used in the production of speciality
cellulose. During the period of the outage, cellulose production was restricted
to grades outside standard specifications, resulting in delays of shipments of
certain speciality cellulose grades.
Production of other products at the biorefinery - including lignin-based
biopolymers, bio-vanillin, bioethanol, and cellulose fibrils - remained
unaffected.
Borregaard has worked with internal and external experts to resolve the issue
and minimise the impact on customers.
Deliveries of speciality cellulose in the 3(rd) quarter are now expected to
total approximately 30,000 tonnes, compared with the previously forecasted range
of 35,000 to 38,000 tonnes as communicated in the 2(nd) quarter report. The
estimated negative impact on the Group's EBITDA for the 3(rd) quarter is in the
range of NOK 40-50 million.
Sarpsborg, 15 September 2025
Contact:
Chief Financial Officer, Per Bjarne Lyngstad, +47 952 44 515
This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU
Market Abuse Regulation and is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant
to Section 5 - 12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
This stock exchange announcement was published by Lotte Kvinlaug, Investor
Relations Officer at Borregaard ASA, on 15 September 2025 at 17:03 CEST.