Evonik Industries' Coatings & Additives business unit has announced a price increase for all Fischer-Tropsch and polyethylene waxes marketed under the trade name of VESTOWAX® in Europe and the Middle East.
As a result of increasing material costs associated with producing acrylic resins, EPS-Materials is electing to raise the price of all acrylic and styrenated acrylic latex emulsions by five cents per wet pound effective Jan. 22, 2010.
Dow Coating Materials will implement a price increase in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey for acrylic emulsions sold to the architectural coatings, industrial coatings and traffic-paint industries.
Effective Jan. 15, 2010, or as contracts allow, UCAR™ Emulsion Systems and Monomers will be increasing pricing on all latex and rheology modifier products.
In response to higher feedstock prices, The Dow Chemical Co. announced that it will raise the off-list prices for several products in the Oxygenated Solvents portfolio in North America effective Jan. 1, 2010, or as contracts allow.