Evonik Industries Raises Silica Prices
The Business Unit "Inorganic Materials" of Evonik Industries AG is raising its Silica prices worldwide. The price increase of 5 % will come into effect on November 1st, 2009, or when contracts allow.
This measure is necessary to maintain our high production standard of silica and compensates for cost increases.
About Evonik
Evonik Industries is the creative industrial group from Germany which operates in three business areas: Chemicals, Energy and Real Estate. Evonik is a global leader in specialty chemicals, an expert in power generation from hard coal and renewable energies, and one of the largest private residential real estate companies in Germany. Our strengths are creativity, specialization, continuous self-renewal, and reliability. Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world. In its fiscal year 2008 about 41,000 employees generated sales of about €15.9 billion and an operating profit (EBITDA) of about €2.2 billion.
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