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Emerald Kalama Chemical Announces Price Increase

Increases for plasticizers, benzoates and intermediates are needed to offset significant rising costs.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, announces price increases for the following products:
 
Purox S Sodium Benzoate
Europe: €110/MT
Rest of World: $0.05/lb
 
Purox and Purox B Benzoic Acid
Europe: €55/MT
Rest of World: $0.025/lb
 
K-FLEX Plasticizers
North America: $0.04/lb
South America: $90/MT
Europe: €80/MT
Asia: $90/MT
 
The increases are needed to offset significant and persistent rising costs, the company said in a statement. The price increases will be effective February 15, 2017 or as contracts allow.
 
 

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