BASF to increase price of acrylic monomers

BASF is to further increase prices for acrylic monomers. In a detailed price review, BASF has announced it will increase prices of acrylic acid and acrylic esters (glacial acrylic acid; methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, n-butyl acrylate, 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate), as contracts permit. The amount and timing of the price increases will vary by region.

These increases affect the pricing of a number of paper chemicals where acrylic monomers are used as raw materials: superabsorbent polymers; acrylate-based dispersions; polymer dispersions/emulsions used as coating binders, adhesives, synthetic strength additives and retention aids.