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.
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.
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.
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.