Price Increase for Pigment Carbon Blacks
The Business Unit Inorganic Materials of Evonik Industries is announcing a price increase of 10 percent for its pigment carbon blacks. The price increase will be effective for all deliveries as of May 15, 2008.
The price increase is the result of soaring costs for raw materials, energy, and logistics. For this reason, Evonik Industries has no choice but to pass on some of these costs to its customers.
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 2007 about 43,000 employees generated sales of about €14.4 billion and an operating profit (EBIT) of more than €1.3 billion (preliminary figures).
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