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BASF Increases Price for Neopentylglycol in North America

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy Editor, New York Post

Effective Jan. 1, 2018, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices for neopentylglycol (NPG) sold in North America by $0.04/lb.

NPG, which is marketed by BASF under the brand NEOL, is mainly used as a building block in polyester resins for coatings, unsaturated polyesters, lubricants and plasticizers. BASF produces NPG in Freeport, Texas; Ludwigshafen, Germany; as well as Nanjing and Jilin in China.

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