April 28 (Reuters) - Domtar Corp UFS.TO :
* Reports preliminary first quarter 2016 financial results
* Q1 earnings per share $0.06
* Q1 sales $1.3 billion versus I/B/E/S view $1.27 billion
* Q1 earnings per share view $0.39 -- Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S
* Q1 earnings per share $0.35 excluding items
* Says recently announced price increases should positively impact pulp and
paper business
* Says second quarter is expected to be affected by seasonally higher
maintenance activity in pulp and paper business
* Second quarter expected to be affected by costs of approximately $23 million
related to fluff pulp conversion outage at ashdown mill
* Says costs for raw materials should marginally increase
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