Home Textiles Today - January 16, 2006

Midland, Mich. — Faced with the same increased costs for raw materials, energy and transportation as everyone else, Dow Chemical division Dow Latex announced today it, too, would be raising its prices. Effective January 30th, the company will charge for all of its latex products sold into the carpet industry $0.

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