The Business Unit Advanced Fillers & Pigments will increase its prices worldwide for ACEMATT® matting agents by 4 to 6 %, depending on grade, as of March 15, 2006.
Costs for raw materials and energy have reached an unprecedented high, which Degussa is no longer in a position to absorb, despite a maximum of cost management efforts.
The Business Unit Advanced Fillers & Pigments, with sales of approx. Euro 1.2 billion (2004) and a workforce of 2764 persons, 30 production sites in 18 countries on 5 continents is one of Degussa’s most important business units and – based on carbon blacks, performance silica / matting agents, organo silanes – the world’s only single-source provider of innovative, tailor-made systems to the coatings, paper, printing ink, consumer products, rubber processing and plastics industries.