WACKER POLYMERS increased its prices for VINNAPAS® vinyl acetate-ethylene and VINNOL® ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions in the United States of America. In the price tariff effective as of on 15 February 2014; prices increased up to five percent per wet pound, or as customer contracts allowed.
Wacker, which is the leader and driving force of the market in the development of VAE copolymer dispersions that are indispensible components in many applications of the present day in such industries of carpet, adhesives, architectural coating and nonwoven, attributed the prices increases to continuously rising raw material prices. Wacker Polymers announced that they made the price adjustments in order to provide customers a wide-range of innovative quality products and comprehensive technical, sales and customer support services.
With an annual turnover of 4.63 billion euros, WACKER is one of the leading chemical companies and gives great importance to research. The company has a wide range of products including such materials as silicones, binders and polymer additives, pharmacologically active substances produced biotechnologically for different industries and solar applications and pure silicon for semiconductors. Wacker, which has been producing poly (vinyl acetate) dispersions since 1938, pioneered the development of vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) polymer dispersions in 1960. Wacker continues to operate as the leader and driving force of the market in the development of VAE copolymer dispersions that are indispensible components in many applications of the present day in such industries of carpet, adhesives, architectural coating and nonwoven.
Dispersions of the VINNAPAS® and VINNOL® brand can applied in a broad variety of industries, ranging from adhesives, construction, nonwovens, paints and coatings to paper, carpet and textiles. Wacker makes production in five different production sites (Burghausen and Cologne - Germany, Calvert City - USA, Ulsan - South Korea and Nanjing - China) under the brand of VINNAPAS®. Supporting its customers with 22 technical centers throughout the world, Wacker continues to serve its carpet customers with the high-tech carpet laboratory located in Burghausen.
