Due to unprecedented raw material, energy and transportation cost increases, DuPont Powder Coatings has had to increase its prices up to 15 percent, effective May 1, on all decorative powder coatings.
According to DuPont, the magnitude of the cost increases is so great (e.g., 25 percent to 50 percent resin increases) that the internal efforts to mitigate the impact on customers, such as six sigma productivity improvement projects, have failed to keep pace with the added cost burden.