Dow Coating Materials Announces Price Increases for Acrylic, Styrene and Vinyl Polymers

Dow Coating Materials will implement a price increase in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey for all emulsions sold to the architectural and industrial coatings markets. The increase, effective April 1 2010, or as contracts allow, will affect all acrylic, styrene-acrylic emulsions, and vinyl based emulsions. For all acrylic products the prices will increase by 80-110 $/MT, for styrene acrylic 120-150 $/MT and vinyl based emulsions by 50-80 USD/MT.

The increases are necessitated by the continued cost escalation of key raw materials used to manufacture these products.

Dow Coating Materials is the premier supplier of products and technologies to architectural and industrial coatings manufacturers worldwide. Combining the extensive resources of Dow and recently-acquired Rohm and Haas Company, the new business provides formulators a wide range of chemistries and support across many different product lines, including core binder technologies, additives and solvents. Additionally, Dow Coating Materials operates 13 dedicated R&D labs across all major geographies where Dow does business.