{"id":1483,"date":"2025-12-01T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:22:58","slug":"price-increase-for-septon-hybrar-and-tu-polymer-from-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/news\/price-increase-for-septon-hybrar-and-tu-polymer-from-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Increase of SEPTON\u2122, HYBRAR\u2122 and TU-Polymer (01\/26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Price Increase of SEPTON\u2122, HYBRAR\u2122 and TU-Polymer (01\/26)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group holder_author has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__byline\">Author<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/author\/yoshi\/\" target=\"_self\">Yoshihiro Morishita<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-12-01T21:00:00-05:00\">1. December 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Elastomers Business Unit will raise the transaction prices of following Elastomer products manufactured at Kashima plant, effective January 1, 2026, or as existing supply agreements allow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALL SEPTON\u2122, HYBRAR\u2122 and TU-Polymer manufactured at Kashima plant: $1.00 per kilogram ($0.45 per pound).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Increasing feedstock, process chemical, utility, logistics, maintenance, and other costs have reached a level beyond unilaterally absorbable by self-saving efforts. This time, it is necessary to recover a portion of these increases to ensure ongoing supply and new product innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b2b17106-8d5a-4418-b0cc-e902e25cf09e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/\u3010Kuraray\u3011Price-Increase-of-SEPTON-HYBRAR-and-TU-Polymer-20251202_EN.pdf\">\u3010Kuraray\u3011Price Increase of SEPTON HYBRAR and TU-Polymer 20251202_EN<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/\u3010Kuraray\u3011Price-Increase-of-SEPTON-HYBRAR-and-TU-Polymer-20251202_EN.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b2b17106-8d5a-4418-b0cc-e902e25cf09e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elastomers Business Unit will raise the transaction prices of following Elastomer products manufactured at Kashima plant, effective January 1, 2026.<br class=\"break-more-link\"><br class=\"break-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/news\/price-increase-for-septon-hybrar-and-tu-polymer-from-january-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-news.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}