As a result of rising feedstock costs, EPS-Materials is electing to increase pricing for all solvent-based resin products by 4 cents per pound effective May 1, 2010.

BASF has announced price increases for dimethylaminopropylamine and morpholine.

Nuplex Resins, Louisville KY, has announced a price increase for coating resins sold in North America effective April 26, 2010.

Dow Coating Materials will implement a price increase of 10 to 13 percent in Europe, including central and eastern Europe and Russia, for all emulsions sold to the architectural and industrial coatings markets.

OMNOVA Solutions’ Specialty Chemicals business has announced a price increase of $0.04 per wet pound for all acrylic, styrene-acrylic and vinyl-acrylic emulsion polymers.

Effective May 1, 2010, or as contracts allow, Arkema Emulsion Systems will increase pricing on all latex products.

Flint Group North America has announced a 6 percent price increase on all energy-curable inks and coatings for sheet-fed, liquid packaging and web-offset applications, effective immediately.

Eliokem has announced a price increase in North America of $.07 to .12 per pound for Pliotec® acrylic and styrene acrylic resins, depending on the grade, and 3 percent to 5 percent for Pliolite® and Plioway® acrylic copolymer resins, depending on the grade.

Effective for orders shipped on or after April 21, 2010, Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) has announced a price increase of up to 15 cents per pound for most Chempol® Coatings Resins.

The High-Performance Polymers business line of Evonik Industries AG will raise prices of its VESTAMID®, VESTOSINT®, VESTAMELT®, TROGAMID® and VESTENAMER® products by an average of seven percent, depending on region and product type.