DuPont Butacite® PVB Price Increase

DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions yesterday announced a price increase of 15 percent on all grades of DuPont™ Butacite® polyvinyl butyral interlayer effective January 1st, 2008. The price increase will be applied globally.

DuPont stated that this action is required due to the continued increases in petrochemical feedstock, energy, freight and distribution costs. ‘The shortage of VAM and the rising cost of ethane and ethylene, primary feedstocks for PVB manufacture, have increased PVB costs substantially in 2007. Increasing energy prices have contributed to increases in freight and distribution costs globally,’ Torkel Rhenman, global business director, DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions, said.

DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions provides materials, services and innovations for a better, safer world. The business operates within the DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers strategic business unit, part of DuPont's $5.3 billion Performance Materials growth platform.