BOISE, Idaho - Boise Inc. (NYSE: BZ) announced today that the company's president and CEO, Alexander Toeldte, has been elected board chairman of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA). 
      "I am honored to be elected as chairman of the board for 2012," said Toeldte. "AF&PA member companies manufacture products integral to society and provide well-paying jobs for thousands of Americans. We are proud of the fact that our industry is one of the largest producers and users of green renewable biomass energy in the world. We have also led the way in voluntarily recycling our products. I look forward to working with my colleagues to help increase awareness of our sustainability success story."
      Mr. Toeldte has been active with the AF&PA Board of Directors since being elected in 2008, serving in leadership positions within the CEO Task Force and committee structure. A native of Cologne, Germany, Toeldte studied economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat in Freiburg, Germany and received his M.B.A. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
      "With the election of Alexander as chairman and our 2012 board officers, AF&PA continues the good fortune of having dedicated, responsible stewards of the industry to guide our policies and planning," said AF&PA President and CEO Donna Harman. "Through the active involvement of our new chairman, officers and members of our board, AF&PA will continue to promote solutions that will advance our industry's competitiveness."
      The AF&PA Board of Directors currently consists of 29 presidents, chairmen and chief executive officers representing the broad spectrum of the forest products industry.

About Alexander Toeldte
Mr. Toeldte has served as Boise's president and chief executive officer and a director since February 2008. Mr. Toeldte joined Boise Cascade Holdings, L.L.C. in early October 2005 and served as executive vice president of that company's Paper and Packaging and Newsprint segments. Mr. Toeldte's previous experience includes: chairing a private management and consulting firm in Auckland, New Zealand; serving as executive vice president of Fonterra Co-operative Group, Ltd., and chief executive officer of Fonterra Enterprises (Fonterra, based in New Zealand, is a global dairy company); serving in various capacities with Fletcher Challenge Limited Group (formerly one of the largest companies in New Zealand with holdings in paper, forestry, building materials, and energy), including as chief executive officer of Fletcher Challenge Building and as chief executive officer of Fletcher Challenge Paper, and serving as a partner at McKinsey & Company in Toronto, Brussels, Montreal, and Stockholm.


About AF&PA
The American Forest & Paper Association is the national trade association of the forest products industry, representing pulp, paper, packaging and wood products manufacturers, and forest landowners. Our companies make products essential for everyday life from renewable and recyclable resources that sustain the environment. The forest products industry accounts for approximately 5 percent of the total U.S. manufacturing GDP. Industry companies produce about $190 billion in products annually and employ nearly 900,000 men and women, exceeding employment levels in the automotive, chemicals and plastics industries. The industry meets a payroll of approximately $50 billion annually and is among the top 10 manufacturing sector employers in 47 states. Visit AF&PA online at http://www.afandpa.org/.


About Boise Inc.
Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Boise Inc. (NYSE: BZ) manufactures a wide variety of packaging and paper products. Boise's range of packaging products includes linerboard and corrugating medium, corrugated containers and sheets, and protective packaging products. Boise's paper products include imaging papers for the office and home, printing and converting papers, and papers used in packaging, such as label and release and flexible packaging papers. Our employees are committed to delivering excellent value while managing our businesses to sustain environmental resources for future generations.www.BoiseInc.com.

Media Contact
Karen Punch

Office 208 384 7037   KarenPunch@BoiseInc.com

AF&PA Contact
Chuck Fuqua/Jessica McFaul

Office 202 463 2436   comms@afandpa.org

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