Faced with continued increases in raw materials and operating costs, Sun Chemical’s Specialty Inks Group will increase prices by 6 to 10 percent on all products sold in North America effective Sept. 1, 2008.
Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex has announced a price increase of U.S. $0.06/wet pound for all styrene butadiene (SB) specialty latex products sold in North America and an increase of U.S. $0.03/wet pound for all other latexes with the exception of products sold for glove manufacturing.
Effective Aug. 15, 2008, Wacker Polymers, L.P. will implement a price increase of $0.04 per wet pound on all prices for vinyl acetate ethylene copolymer and vinyl acetate vinyl chloride dispersions sold in the Americas region.
Evonik Industries’ Coatings & Additives Business Unit has announced a price increase for the product group VESTAMIN® in NAFTA by 8 percent, effective Oct. 1, 2008.
Effective Aug. 1, 2008, or as contracts allow, Southern Clay Products Inc. (SCP) will increase the price of its waterborne rheological additives, castors and wax derivatives by 5 to 15 percent.
The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) has announced that effective Aug. 1, 2008, or as individual contract terms allow, it will raise the price of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) in all regions of the world.
Tronox Inc., on behalf of its subsidiary companies, has announced that the price for all TRONOX® titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades sold in Europe will increase by EUR 80 per tonne, effective Aug. 1, 2008, or as contracts allow. Other increases may be announced locally within each region.
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