Nalco to increase prices of paper chemicals in Asia Pacific

Nalco has decided to increase prices on a broad range of products sold into the Asia Pacific market - the increase covers products across its three main divisions. Most increases will range from 7 to 30%, and will depend on the product's exposure to rising raw material, energy and transportation costs. In a few cases, as in products containing phosphate-derived raw materials, price increases will be well in excess of 30%.

The increase in Asia Pacific comes on the back of an earlier announcement of price increases for paper chemicals in North America.