Buckeye Promotes Two Officers

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2005--Buckeye Technologies Inc. (NYSE:BKI) today announced the promotion of two officers.
    Jeffery T. Cook was elected Senior Vice President, Product and Market Development. Mr. Cook graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1983. He began his career with Buckeye, which was then a division of Procter & Gamble, in 1984. Mr. Cook spent much of his early career working on consumer products with Procter & Gamble and returned to Buckeye in 1998. He became Vice President, Product Development-New Fibers in 1999 and assumed his current position as head of the Company's Product and Market Development organization in July 2003.
    Mr. Douglas L. Dowdell was elected Senior Vice President, Nonwovens. Mr. Dowdell graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Forestry in 1980. For eight years Mr. Dowdell managed Timberland in the Southeastern U.S. for Champion International. He began his career with Buckeye's wood pulp operations at Perry, Florida in 1988. He relocated to the Memphis Headquarters in 1996 in a New Business Development role. Mr. Dowdell was elected a Corporate Vice President in 2000 and has extensive management experience in both our Wood and Nonwovens businesses. He assumed his current position as head of the Company's Nonwovens Division in October 2003.
    Buckeye, a leading manufacturer and marketer of specialty fibers and nonwoven materials, is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The Company currently operates facilities in the United States, Germany, Canada, and Brazil. Its products are sold worldwide to makers of consumer and industrial goods.
    Certain matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws that involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to economic, competitive, governmental, and technological factors affecting the Company's operations, financing, markets, products, services and prices, and other factors. For further information on factors which could impact the Company and the statements contained herein, please refer to public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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CONTACT: Buckeye Technologies Inc., Memphis Kris Matula, 901-320-8588 or Investor Relations Manager: Chad Foreman, 901-320-8828 Website: www.bkitech.com

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