With immediate effect, or as contract terms allow, BASF will increase prices for its Lupranate MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate) basic products and Lupranate TDI (toluene diisocyanate).
In response to increasing raw material costs and current market conditions, Oxea will increase prices for several products effective August 1, 2026, or as contracts allow.
Citing increasing feedstock prices, rising utility and logistics costs, and increases in prices for packaging materials, Kuraray has implemented a price increase for certain elastomer products.
Kraton Corp., a global producer of specialty polymers and high-value bio-based chemicals derived from pine wood pulping co-products, recently announced a global price increase.
Both adhesives and raw materials suppliers are tying rising costs of their products to petrochemical constraints, tariffs, energy costs, logistics volatility, and the continued pressure on specialty chemical feedstocks.