MUNICH, Germany/ALLENTOWN, PA – WACKER POLYMERS is raising its prices for VINNAPAS® vinyl acetate-ethylene and VINNOL® ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions in the Americas. Effective April 15, 2014, WACKER will implement a price increase of up to five percent per wet pound, or as customer contracts allow. This measure has been necessitated by the continued increase in raw-material cost.