Unimin Specialty Minerals Inc., New Canaan, Connecticut, will raise prices for all MINEX, IMSIL, SNOBRITE and MINBLOC brand functional filler products.
Huber Engineered Materials, a division of J.M. Huber Corp., announced a price increase for its precipitated silica and silicate products manufactured in North America.
Allnex announced that due to the increase in raw material costs, the company is raising the cost of the Liquid Resins and Additives (LRA) portfolio sold in North America.
OMNOVA Solutions announced a price increase of $0.06/wet pound on all styrene-butadiene, styrene-acrylic and acrylic latex polymers sold into the Americas.
Oxea will implement a price increase for prices in North America, Mexico and South America on certain products, effective December 1, 2016, or as contracts allow.
Effective November 1, 2016, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices for styrene-butadiene, styrene-acrylic and acrylic latex polymers sold in North America.
Following an extended period of modest cost inflation, key polymer raw materials including propylene, ethylene, acetone, methanol and benzene have spiked in the past two months.