MOSCOW (MRC) -- Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, and a global leader in vinyl acetate ethylene (EVA) emulsions, has announced that it will increase the price of emulsions sold in the Americas, said the producer on its side.
Vinyl acetate homopolymer emulsions, vinyl acrylic emulsions, vinyl acetate ethylene emulsions, and acrylic emulsions will increase by up to USD0.03/wet pound effective March 1, 2017, or as contracts allow.
This price increase affects all applications including, but not limited to, adhesives, paints and coatings, building and construction, nonwovens, glass fiber, carpet, paper and textiles.
This announcement is in addition to the price increase for vinyl acetate based emulsions which was announced on October 14, 2016, and effective November 15, 2016.
As MRC wrote previously, Celanese Corporation raised February list and off-list selling prices for low density polyethylene (LDPE) polymers in the Americas. Thus, the price increase was effective February 1, 2017, or as contracts allow, and LDPE prices grew by USD0.05/lb (USD0.11/kg or USD110/tonne) for North and South America.
Celanese Corporation is a global technology leader in the production of differentiated chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in most major industries and consumer applications. Based in Dallas, Celanese employs approximately 7,000 employees worldwide and had 2015 net sales of USD5.7 billion.
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