MOSCOW (MRC) -- Trinseo, a global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, and its affiliate companies in Europe has announced price increases for all natural polycarbonate (PC) grades, as per the company's press release.
Effective immediately, or as existing contract terms allow, contract and spot prices for the product listed below will increase as follows:
- CALIBRE polycarbonate resins - by EUR220 per metric ton.
As MRC wrote before, Trinseo last increased PC prices in late September 2016, as follows:
- CALIBRE PC resins by - EUR200 per metric ton.
As MRC informed before, in December 2016, Trinseo also raised prices for all polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) and acrylonitrile styrene copolymer (SAN) grades. Effective as of 1 December 2016, or as existing contract terms allow, the December contract and spot prices for the product listed below rose as follows:
- STYRON general purpose polystyrene grades (GPPS), STYRON and STYRON A-TECH high impact polystyrene grades (HIPS) - by EUR170 per metric ton;
- MAGNUM ABS resins - by EUR100 per metric ton;
- TYRIL SAN resins - by EUR100 per metric ton.
Trinseo is a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders, and synthetic rubber. We are focused on delivering innovative and sustainable solution to help our customers create products that touch lives every day - products that are intrinsic to how we live our lives - across a wide range of end-markets, including automotive, consumer electronics, appliances, medical devices, lighting, electrical, carpet, paper and board, building and construction, and tires. Trinseo had approximately USD4.0 billion in revenue in 2015, with 18 manufacturing sites around the world, and more than 2,200 employees.
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