Kraton hiking prices for crude tall oil products

Houston, Texas – Kraton Corp. will introduce a general price increase of between 10% and 15 % across its crude tall oil (CTO) refinery products and derivatives, the company announced 27 Aug.  

“This increase will be effective 15 Sept and/or be subject to the terms of any applicable contracts and obligations,” according to the Houston-based polymers and chemicals supplier.

A by-product of pine wood pulping  used by paper mills, Kraton processes CTO in a bio-refinery into four different fractions: tall oil fatty acid, tall oil rosin, distilled tall oil and pitch. 

These fractions are further processed into bio-based chemicals, for example terpenes which can used in the production of tread enhancement additives for tires or tackifying resins for adhesives.