Eliokem has announced a price increase in North America of $.05 to .15 per pound for Pliotec® acrylic and styrene acrylic resins.

Effective June 1, 2010, Pilot Chemical Co. is increasing list and off-list pricing for some of its surfactants.

Effective for orders shipped on or after May 21, 2010, Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) has announced a price increase.

H.B. Fuller Co. will implement a price increase on its water-based, hot-melt and reactive adhesives sold in North America.

Bayer MaterialScience AG is raising its selling prices for aliphatic isocyanates in the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region by between 6 and 8 percent with immediate effect.

Rio Tinto Minerals has announced an 8 percent price increase, effective June 1, 2010.

OMNOVA Solutions’ Specialty Chemicals business has announced a price increase of $0.03 per dry pound for all GenFlo®, GenCeal®, OMNABOND™, GenCryl® and GenCal® styrene butadiene-based emulsion polymers.

Effective June 1, DSM NeoResins+ will increase prices in North America for all its liquid resins from $0.04 to $0.15 per lb., depending on the product line.

With immediate effect, specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG is increasing its prices worldwide for iron oxide pigments by up to EUR 100 per metric ton.

Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., will increase the price of all Dextrol® and Strodex® phosphate ester surfactant products.