BASF lifts prices for carpet latex

ERJ staff report (RD)

Dalton, Georgia - BASF will increase its prices by $0.08 per dry pound on all Styrofan carboxylated styrene-butadiene polymers, the company announced 9 July.

The price increases, necessary as a result of significant cost increases for raw materials and energy, will be on all styrene-butadiene polymers sold to the carpet industry in the US and Canada, effective 1 Aug 2008, or as contracts allow.