Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) has announced a $0.07-$0.10 per-pound price increase, depending on grade, for all Reafree® powder coatings resin materials.

Effective April 1, 2010, or as contracts permit, Solvay Chemicals Inc. will implement a temporary sulfur surcharge for its sulfite products.

Effective April 5, 2010, Dianal America Inc., will increase prices on its acrylic and styrene-acrylic bead resins.

OMNOVA Solutions’ Specialty Chemicals business has announced a price increase of $0.06 per wet pound for all acrylic, styrene acrylic and vinyl acrylic emulsion polymers.

Evonik Industries’ Coatings & Additives business unit will increase worldwide the price for adhesive resins sold under the brand name VESTOPLAST®.

The Performance Products division of Huntsman Corp. will increase off-list prices in the NAFTA region.

Cognis Corp. is increasing prices for all Photomer and Bisomer brand products effective March 15, 2010, or as contracts allow.

Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., is increasing the price of its Natrosol® Hydroxyethylcellulose products by eight percent effective March 1, 2010, or as contracts allow.

Effective Feb. 15, 2010, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase its prices on all STYROFAN and STYRONAL styrene-butadiene latex products by up to $0.06 per wet pound in the United States and Canada.

The Inorganic Materials Business Unit of Evonik Industries is increasing prices.