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In an effort to give our customers as much notice as possible, Tubelite will post news on all price increases here as soon as we are notified by our vendors. Customers will often be able to take advantage of this information by planning ahead and planning their purchasing accordingly. Price Increases will always be displayed with the most recent increase listed first.
| Vendor | Description: | Effective Date: |
| Coroplast Inc. | Due to the impact of rapidly increased monomer prices and increased transportation and energy cost, Coroplast has announced an increase in all orders received or shipped after August 1, 2008 | August 1, 2008 |
| Aristech Acrylics | Due to continued increases in our operating costs; including raw materials and freight Aristech Acrylics will increase pricing on all General Purpose (GPA), Impact Modified (Acrysteel®) and UVT Solarcast® acrylic sheet products. | August 1, 2008 |
| SABIC Innovative Plastics | Due to staggering increases in the cost of raw materials as well as energy and transportation cost SABIC Innovative Plastics will increase prices on the following products:
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August 18, 2008 |
| United Industries | Due to the increase in cost of raw material United Industries must announce a price increase across the board on our full line of products effective on 08/15/08. |
August 15, 2008 |
| 3M | Beginning August 1, 2008, the 3M Traffic Safety Systems Division will implement pricing adjustments to various products. These changes are necessitated by the rapidly escalating costs of raw materials and the energy required to produce and ship our products. Products that will increase in price include:
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August 1, 2008 |
| ABC Compounding | ABC Compounding will increase prices across the board on all water based products, powders, aerosols and Solvent based products. These increase are due to significant increases in crude oil and steel containers. | August 1, 2008 |
| Cyro | Effective August 1st Cyro will implement a price increase on acrylic sheet products. | August 1, 2008 |
| Sericol | Effective August 1st Sericol will have a price increase on the following products:
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August 1, 2008 |
| Arkema Group | Effective with shipments on or after July 1st Altuglas International will increase our cost on the Plexiglas sheet products | July 1, 2008 |
| American Fiber | American Fiber will increase pricing, effictive July 11. | July 11, 2008 |
| France | France will be implementing a price increase on all magnetic transformers and ballasts | July 20, 2008 |
| Coroplast | Coroplast will implement a price increase effective July 14th | July 14, 2008 |
| Inteplast | Inteplast will increase pricing on all products effective July 1. | July 1, 2008 |
| Spartech Plastics | Effective July 1 Spartech Plastics will implement a price increase for all ABS products. | July 1, 2008 |
| Matthews | Matthews Paint will implement a price increase on all MAP, VOC and SVOC MAP | July 7, 2008 |
| American Biltrite | Effective June 15 American Biltrite implement a 2 1/2% freight/fuel surcharge on all into-stock orders & a 5 ½% freight surcharge on all drop shipments as well. |
June 15, 2008 |
| Plasticade | Plasticade has announced a price increase for all products effective June 15th | June 15, 2008 |
| Arkema Inc. | Arkema has announced a price increase on Tuffak Polycarbonate Sheet products. | June 19, 2008 |
| FDC | FDC has announced a price increase on most products effective June 1, 2008 | June 1, 2008 |
| KIWO | Effective June 9th KIWO Inc. will implement a price increase on the following products; Kiwocol, Poly-Plus, SBQ, Blockouts, Pressure Sensitive, frame adhesives, hardeners, Cleanline, and capillary Films | June 9, 2008 |
| 3M | On July 1, 2008 the 3M Graphics Market Center will be adjusting prices for products listed in the Commercial Graphics Price Catalogs. | July 1, 2008 |
| Evonik Cyro | Effective June 5, 2008 there will be a price increase in the following acrylic sheet products.
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June 5, 2008 |
| Union Ink Company | Union Ink Company has announced a price increase effective July, 1 2008 on all plastisol screen printing inks. There will also be a small increase on white and water based inks. | July 1, 2008 |
| Gilman Brothers | The Gilman Brothers Company has announced a price increase on all orders effective June 20, 2008 | June 20, 2008 |
| Gerber Scientific Products | Gerber has announced a price increase on the following products:
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June 1, 2008 |
| Hartco Inc. | Hartco Inc. has announced that it will be adding a surcharge to all orders. | June 1, 2008 |
| Steiner Paper Corp | Steiner Paper has announced price increases on Tracing Paper (All Grades), Signwriters Bond (All Weights), Standard Bond (All Weights) and Fluorescent Rolls. | June 1, 2008 |
| Spartech | Spartech has announced a price increase on Sungard and PC-2000 polycarbonate sheet products effective June 23. | June 23, 2008 |
| Parker Davis Co., Inc. | Due to escalating steel costs, Parker Davis has announced a price increase on it's Step Stake product. | June 1, 2008 |
| Main Tape | Main Tape has announced a price increase on all products. | June 16, 2008 |
| SYLVANIA | Sylvania has announced a price increase on all large lamps (Incandescent, Halogen, Fluorescent, High Intensity Discharge and Quartz). In addition there will also be a price increase on magnetic and electronics ballasts as well as Display Optic products. | August 1, 2008 |
| Intertape Polymer Group | IPG announced a price increase on all products | May 19, 2008 |
| Tarr LLC | Tarr Chemical announced a price increase on all products. | May 16, 2008 |
| Aristech Acrylics | Effective with shipments on or after June 16, 2008 Aristech Acrylics LLC will increase the price of all General Purpose (GPA), Impact Modified (Acrysteel®) and UVT Solarcast® acrylic sheet products |
June 16, 2008 |
| Jain (Americas) Inc. | Jain has announced a small price increase for all products | June 15, 2008 |
| Chromaline | Chromaline has announced a price increase that will include emulsions, chemicals, capillary films, and Nichols® products. The ChromaBlue™ product will also see a small increase. | June 1, 2008 |
| Aristech Acrylics | Aristech Acrylics has announced that due to the continued rising cost of raw materials they will need to increase pricing on all acrylic sheet products next quarter. This new pricing could be in effect as soon as July 1st, 2008 | July 1, 2008 |
| Coroplast Inc. | Due to increases in raw materials and freight, Coroplast will be increasing pricing by 6% on all twin wall polypropylene products, PVC foam materials, as well as all laminated products. | June 2, 2008 |
| Rapid Tac Inc. | Due to rising fuel, and raw chemical cost, Rapid Tac Inc. has announced a 3% price increase. | June 1, 2008 |
| Arlon | Arlon will implement price increases for most of its core cut graphics and print technology products effective for shipments after June1st by a range of at least 4 to 8 percent, depending on product line. Quotes with expirations beyond May 31st will be expired on May 31st and be reissued with new pricing and an effective date of June 1st 2008. |
June 1, 2008 |
| Mimaki | Mimaki USA announce that they will increase pricing to reflect current exchange rates. Price increases will affect equipment, ink and parts. | May 18, 2008 |
| Utopia | Utopia is scheduled to implement the following price increases:
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April 14, 2008 |
| Spartech | Spartech will implement a $.02 per pound energy surcharge for all shipments | April 15, 2008 |
| Kommerling | Kommerling has announced a price increase on all products. | May 19, 2008 |
| Aristech Acrylics | Aristech Acrylics has announced an increase on all General Purpose (GPA) and Impact Modified (Acrysteel) acrylic sheet products. | May 1, 2008 |
| Akzo Noble | Akzo Nobel announced the discontinuation of Grip-Gard and Grip-Gard HS lines. These will be replaced with Grip-Gard Plus. Production of Grip-Gard and Grip-Gard HS was discontinued on December 31st, 2007. These products are still available as supplies last, or until June 30th, 2008. After July 1st, 2008 Grip-Gard and Grip-Gard HS will no longer be available for sale. | July 1, 2008 |
| Cyro Industries | Cyro Industries will implement an price increase on all of their acrylic sheet products. | April 18, 2008 |
| Transco | Transco has announced that they will increase magnetic ballasts prices. | May 5, 2008 |
| Spartech Plastics | Spartech has announced a 5% increase on all products. | April 1, 2008 |
| Robert and Sons Aluminum | Robert and Sons has announced there will be an increase on all aluminum products | April 1, 2008 |
| Universal Lighting | Universal Lighting has announced there will be price increases on magnetic, HID and electronic products. | April 21, 2008 |
| Altuglas International | Altuglas has announce there will be an increase on all plexiglass acrylic sheet products. | April 12, 2008 |
| Advance Transformer | Advance has announced that they will increase prices on all magnetic and electronic products. | April 14, 2008 |
| Frame Tech | Frame Tech will be increasing the price on all aluminum frames effective immediately due to both constantly escalating material costs and also increasing fabrication cost. | March 17, 2008 |