Reichhold Announces Price Increase for Vinyl Ester Resins Sold in US and Canada; $0.15 per Pound; Effective April 6

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"Reichhold works continuously to improve the products and services
the company provides to the composites industry," Schramm said.
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technology center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, is
together with its parent, Dainippon Ink + Chemicals (Tokyo, 4631) the
world's largest manufacturer of unsaturated polyester resins and a
leading supplier of coating resins for the industrial, transportation,
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"Sharp increases in the cost for raw materials such as liquid
epoxy resin which go into our vinyl ester products have made this
increase necessary ," said Bill Schramm, North American business
director for Reichhold's composites business.

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For more information on Reichhold and its products, visit
composites@reichhold. He holds a master's
degree in business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and bachelors of science in earth and environmental science from
Wesleyan University.

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Sawyer has been chief financial officer of Praxair since 2000 and was vice
president and treasurer from 1994 until 2000.

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"Increases in the costs of these and other raw materials such as
styrene are being driven by a wide variety of feedstocks," Schramm
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on all vinyl ester resins sold in the United States and Canada,
effective for orders shipped on or after April 6.
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