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Albemarle to Increase Prices of NcendX P-30 Phosphorus Flame Retardant
BATON ROUGE, La.
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The price increases are necessary to further offset large increases in energy and elemental phosphorous costs.
"Rising energy and material costs continue to put pressure on this product, particularly the dramatically increasing cost of elemental phosphorous," said
NcendX flame retardants, part of Albemarle's Polymer Additives segment, add life-saving properties to materials used in TV housings and other electronic enclosures
Albemarle Corporation, headquartered in
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Albemarle Corporation's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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