OMNOVA Solutions’ Specialty Chemicals business announced a price increase of up to $0.08 per dry pound for all styrene butadiene emulsion polymers produced in the United States and up to $0.10 per wet pound for all acrylic and styrene acrylic emulsion polymers.

Oxea will increase list and off-list prices on trimethylolpropane and neopentylglycol effective January 1, 2013, or as contracts allow.

Resinate Materials Group Inc., a provider of resins and technology for the coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers industries, has released starting formulation data for the company’s R-162 resin product line.

Effective October 25, 2012, or as contracts allow, Arkema Coating Resins will increase pricing on all latex products sold in North America.

Cytec Industries Inc. has reached an agreement to sell its Coating Resins business to Advent International, a global private equity firm, for $1,032 million plus assumed liabilities of $118 million, bringing the total value to $1,150 million.

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is globally increasing its prices for ion exchange resins and inorganic pigments effective July 1, 2012.

Evonik Industries’ Coatings & Additives Business Unit announced a price increase for its range of DEGADUR^®, DEGADECK^® and DEGAMENT^® reactive resins and DEGALAN^®.

Hydro PLIOLITE® 010 is a very suitable emulsion for anti-carbonation paints, giving the coating a penetrative adhesion to the substrate, a secure film formation, excellent ageing characteristics and a long-term barrier against carbon dioxide, water and oxygen.

SILRES IC 368 has been formulated so that an addition of only 15 percent is sufficient to improve the UV and weathering resistance of the organic binder in a coating system – without detracting from its mechanical properties.

Nuplex Resins has announced a price increase for coating resins sold in North America effective April 30, 2012.