Mercer International Inc. First Quarter 2005 Conference Call to Be Broadcast Over the Internet

NEW YORK, May 5 /CNW/ -- Mercer International
(Nasdaq: MERCS, TSX: MRI.U) announced today that it intends to release its
first quarter financial results for the period ended March 31, 2005 on
Tuesday, May 10, 2005.  In conjunction with the release if its results, Mercer
will host a conference call, which will be simultaneously broadcast live over
the Internet.  Jimmy S.H. Lee, Chairman and President, and David M. Gandossi,
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, will host the
call on:

                        Tuesday, May 10, 2005

                             10:00 AM ET
                              9:00 AM CT
                              8:00 AM MT
                              7:00 AM PT

Listeners can access the conference call live, or archived through May 17,
2005, over the Internet at:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/playerlink.zhtml?c=62074&s=wm&e=1050591
or through a link on the Company's homepage at
http://www.mercerinternational.com.  Please allow 15 minutes prior to the call
to visit the sites and download and install any necessary audio software.

Mercer is a pulp and paper manufacturing company.  Mercer operates three
modern NBSK pulp mills in Germany and Canada with a consolidated annual
production capacity of approximately 1.3 million tonnes.