Effective March 1, 2012, or as contracts allow, COATEX Inc. will increase the list and off-list selling prices of its thickener and dispersant product lines sold to the coatings market for the NAFTA region.
Effective March 1, 2012, or as contracts allow, the synthetic polymers group of Forbo Adhesives LLC will increase the price for all emulsion polymer products.
Lonza Microbial Control announced that due to dramatic price increases of the key raw material iodine the company will be implementing a global 10-40 percent price increase, depending on the formulation, for Omacide™ biocide products based on 3-iodo-2-propynyl-n-butylcarbamate (IPBC).
OMNOVA Solutions’ Specialty Chemicals business announced a price increase of $0.06 per dry pound for all styrene butadiene emulsion polymers produced in the United States.
Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., is increasing the price of its Fungitrol™ 400S technical iodopropynyl butylcarbamate (IPBC) fungicide (North America), Fungitrol C450 technical IPBC fungicide (Europe), and IPBC-based formulations globally.