Kuraray Co., Ltd., a leading supplier of high performance Hydrogenated Styrenic Block Copolymers, will raise the prices of Elastomer products effective October 1, 2009, or as existing supply agreements allow.

<All SEPTON™, HYBRAR™ and TU-Polymer grades>
    USD 200 per MT

Worldwide supply shortage of C4 and C5 chemicals such as Butadiene and Isoprene as well as those price increases resulted in the rapid escalation of costs to produce these specialty high performance materials. It is necessary to recover a portion of those increases to ensure ongoing supply and new product innovation.

This price increase will be in effect for all shipments on and after October 1, 2009. Other terms and conditions are unchanged.