DuPont Titanium Technologies Announces a Price Increase for Titanium Dioxide Products in Europe.

PR Newswire Europe, October, 2007

WILMINGTON, Delaware, October 8 /PRNewswire/ --

DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced a price increase for all DuPont titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades sold in Europe.

Effective Oct. 15, 2007, or as permitted by contract, prices for DuPont coatings, plastics, specialty, paper, and laminate titanium dioxide grades will increase 90 Euros per metric ton in Europe.

The modest increases implemented to date in 2007 still leave prices well below the levels required to offset both recent structural cost increases as well as ongoing cost increases. DuPont Titanium Technologies will continue to work to offset these increases in the cost structure with productivity initiatives, but such initiatives alone cannot be expected to offset the significant...