Tronox Inc., on behalf of its subsidiary companies, has announced that the price for all TRONOX® titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades sold in Europe will increase by EUR 80 per tonne, effective Aug. 1, 2008, or as contracts allow. Other increases may be announced locally within each region.
WACKER POLYMERS is raising its prices in Europe for AIRFLEX®, VINAC®, FLEXBOND® and FLEXCRYL® dispersions. Effective Sept. 1, 2008, prices for these dispersions will be increased by up to EUR 40 per ton, or as customer contracts allow.
Effective on orders shipped on or after Aug. 15, 2008, or as contracts allow, Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) will implement a 5- to 10-percent price increase for all coatings and powder resins products.
Evonik Degussa Corp.’s Coatings and Additives Business Unit will increase prices by at least 10 percent for VESTANAT® crosslinkers in the United States.
Effective August 1, 2008, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase its prices by up to U.S. $0.20 per dry pound in the United States and Canada for all Butofan® medium solids styrene-butadiene latex products and for Styrofan® and Styronal® styrene-butadiene latex products used in the adhesives, architectural coatings, sealants, construction, paper and nonwovens markets.
Flint Group has announced price increases and surcharges on all packaging and commercial inks sold in North America, effective on all products billed on or after July 21, 2008.
Huntsman Corp. has announced that effective August 1, 2008, or as applicable contracts allow, its Performance Products division will increase list and off-list prices in the NAFTA region.
Michelman has announced a 15- to 25-percent price increase on coatings and additives across all product categories in the Americas region, effective July 14, 2008.