Tranche Update on Clearwater Paper Corporation's Equity Buyback Plan announced on December 15, 2015.

Clearwater Paper Corporation is a manufacturer and supplier of bleached paperboard and consumer and parent roll tissue. The Company operates through two segments: Pulp and Paperboard and Consumer Products. The Pulp and Paperboard segment markets and manufactures bleached paperboard for the high-end segment of the packaging industry and is a producer of Solid Bleached Sulfate (SBS) paperboard. The Pulp and Paperboard segment produces hardwood and softwood pulp, which is primarily used as the basis for its paperboard products or transferred to its Consumer Products segment. The Consumer Products segment sells and produces a complete line of at-home tissue products. It supplies bleached paperboard to quality-conscious printers and packaging converters, and offer services that include custom sheeting, slitting and cutting. It also supplies private branded tissue to retailers, including grocery, clubs, mass merchants and discount stores.