PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has announced it is raising prices by an average of 2 to 10 percent on all its liquid, powder and electrocoat (E-coat) products in the Asia/Pacific region, effective April 1 or as permissible by contract.
Effective March 16, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase list and off-list prices for resins and performance additives by 5-15 percent in North America.
OMNOVA Solutions’ Specialty Chemicals business announced a price increase of $0.15 per dry pound for all styrene butadiene emulsion polymers produced in the United States and $0.04 per wet pound for all acrylic, styrene acrylic, vinyl acrylic, and vinyl acetate emulsion polymers.
Effective March 15, 2012, or as contracts allow, Arkema Coating Resins will increase pricing on all solventborne and powder coating resins sold in North America.