Faced with dramatic increases in the cost of Azo intermediates and related raw materials, Sun Chemical Performance Pigments will raise its global prices on Azo pigments, specialty pigments and their pigment preparations.
Huber Engineered Materials, a division of J.M. Huber Corp., announced a global price increase for its alumina trihydrate and magnesium hydroxide products, effective Jan. 2, 2018, or as current contracts allow.
Effective Jan. 2, 2018, or as contracts allow, BASF will implement price increases for all hard emulsions, film formers, solid resins and polyols in North America.
As a result of ongoing raw material inflation and multiple force majeure events, Engineered Polymer Solutions is electing to raise prices for all water-based acrylic and styrene acrylic polymers, PVAs, PUDs, and solution acrylics.
Imerys Kaolin is increasing prices for its hydrous and calcined kaolins for paper, board and performance minerals applications, e.g. coatings, polymers, adhesives, pharmaceuticals etc.