Dow Coating Materials raises prices in North America
02 Sep '09
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Dow Coating Materials, a division of The Dow Chemical Company will implement a price increase for all acrylic and acrylic-based products sold to the architectural coatings, industrial coatings, and traffic paint industries.
The increase of $0.05 per lb. is in addition to any previously announced increase. The increase will take effect immediately or as contracts allow and will affect all acrylic and styrene-acrylic emulsions, vinyl-acetate-based emulsions, rheology modifiers, opaque polymers, and dispersants.
Dow Coating Materials will also implement a price increase of $0.09 per lb. for all solution and solid-grade Paraloid resins. The increase will take effect immediately or as contracts allow and is in addition to any previously announced increase.
In making the announcement, Neil Carr, General Manager of Dow Coating Materials North America, cited the continuing escalation in raw material costs as necessitating the increases.