Effective Jan. 2, 2018, or as contracts allow, BASF will implement price increases for all hard emulsions, film formers, solid resins and polyols in North America.
As a result of ongoing raw material inflation and multiple force majeure events, Engineered Polymer Solutions is electing to raise prices for all water-based acrylic and styrene acrylic polymers, PVAs, PUDs, and solution acrylics.
Imerys Kaolin is increasing prices for its hydrous and calcined kaolins for paper, board and performance minerals applications, e.g. coatings, polymers, adhesives, pharmaceuticals etc.
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, announced global price increases for K-FLEX® Non-Phthalate Plasticizers and Low-VOC Coalescents.