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WACKER POLYMERS Raises Prices for Dispersions, Dispersible Polymer Powders

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy Editor, New York Post

WACKER POLYMERS is raising its prices for vinyl-acetate-ethylene-based copolymer dispersions, dispersible polymer powders and solid resins of its VINNAPAS, VINNOL, ETONIS, VINNACEL and SMARGO brands worldwide.

Effective July 1, 2018, prices will be raised by up to ten percent, or as customer contracts allow. Rapidly rising raw-material costs, especially for acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) – two indispensable raw materials for the manufacturing of WACKER’s vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer dispersions, dispersible polymer powders and solid resins – are the reason for this measure.
 

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