OMNOVA Solutions’ Specialty Chemicals business announced a price increase of $0.15 per dry pound for all styrene butadiene emulsion polymers produced in the United States and $0.04 per wet pound for all acrylic, styrene acrylic, vinyl acrylic, and vinyl acetate emulsion polymers.
Effective March 15, 2012, or as contracts allow, Arkema Coating Resins will increase pricing on all solventborne and powder coating resins sold in North America.
Effective March 1, 2012, or as contracts allow, COATEX Inc. will increase the list and off-list selling prices of its thickener and dispersant product lines sold to the coatings market for the NAFTA region.
Effective March 1, 2012, or as contracts allow, the synthetic polymers group of Forbo Adhesives LLC will increase the price for all emulsion polymer products.