HOUSTON – Oxea announced it will increase prices for carboxylic acids effective March 1, 2020, or as contracts allow. In Europe, heptanoic acid, isononanoic acid, 2-ethylhexanoic acid and n-butyric acid will increase €80/mt. In North America/Mexico, these products will increase $0.04/lb., and in the rest of the world, the products will increase $88/mt.