Caraustar Increases Price On Certain Products

Date: December 1, 2004

Source: News Room

Caraustar Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSAR) has announced a price increase effective January 3, 2005 from 7.5 percent to 14 percent for composite cans, plastic cartridges and metal ends produced by the Composite Container Division of its Industrial & Consumer Products Group. The price increases are the result of escalating steel, resin, paperboard and energy prices. The company serves the four principal recycled boxboard product markets: tubes, cores and cans; folding cartons and custom packaging; gypsum wallboard facing paper; and miscellaneous "other specialty" and converted products.
More information: www.caraustar.com.

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