the-ground experience before
committing a larger investment in
a manufacturing site.”
RVC International PTE, Ltd to act as their
sales agent in the following regions: Sin-
gapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
Novaflow Systems names new
sales agent
Novaflow Systems, Inc, with its corporate
offices based in Prescott, Ontario, Canada
has today announced an agreement with
Munzing names Fitz Chem
distributor for Central U.S.
Fitz Chem Corporation, a specialty
chemical distributor headquartered in
Itasca, IL, United States, was recently ap-
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pointed Munzings Central Region distributor covering the following areas:
ND, SD, MN, WI, IL, IA, NE, KS, MO,
OK, TX, AR, LA, MS, Western TN, and
UP Michigan. Munzing offers a complete
range of specialty additives, which include liquid and powder defoamers, rheology modifiers, wetting and leveling
agents, polymeric dispersants, air release
agents and emulsifiers.
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Reichhold to raises prices for
resins
Reichhold, Inc. announced a price increase of $0.08 per pound on all unsaturated polyester resins, vinyl ester resins
and flame retardant resins sold in North
America for the composites industry.
This increase is effective for all orders
shipped on or after February 15th. “
Escalating raw material prices and limited
supply of some raw materials continue to
increase our costs, leaving us no choice
but to raise our prices,” said Bill
Schramm, vice president commercial
North American composites. “Raw material costs are expected to rise continually through the first quarter primarily
the result of numerous planned outages
and increased demand.
“Crude oil continues to trade over
$100 per barrel and the cost spread between oil and natural gas continues to
favor the latter which yields less propylene
available for conversion to many composites raw materials,” Schramm said.
Ashland Performance Materials
to raises prices for UPRs and
gelcoats
Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., is increasing the prices of its unsaturated
polyester resins (UPRs) and gelcoats
portfolio sold in Europe, the Middle
East and Africa (EMEA) by €100 per
ton effective Feb. 1, 2012, or at the earliest possible time depending on individual customer contracts. The pricing
action is primarily driven by the continued escalation in costs for key raw
materials, specifically styrene and TiO2,
at Ashland’s manufacturing units said
the company. CW
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