{"id":1519,"date":"2026-02-15T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:25:24","slug":"price-increase-for-septon-hybrar-and-tu-polymer-from-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/news\/price-increase-for-septon-hybrar-and-tu-polymer-from-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Increase of SEPTON\u2122, HYBRAR\u2122 and TU-Polymer (03\/26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Price Increase of SEPTON\u2122, HYBRAR\u2122 and TU-Polymer (03\/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=\"2026-02-15T21:00:00-05:00\">15. February 2026<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Elastomers Business Unit will raise the transaction prices of following Elastomer products in all regions effective March 1, 2026, or as existing supply agreements allow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALL SEPTON\u2122, HYBRAR\u2122 and TU-Polymer: $0.33 per kilogram ($0.15 per pound).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Increasing feedstock prices for the relevant products, including butadiene, have reached a level beyond unilaterally absorbable by self-saving efforts. This time, it is necessary to recover a portion of these increases to improve profitability and maintain a stable supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9356fce6-e7c7-44a9-af04-9c37e47d090a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/Kuraray_Price-Increase-of-SEPTON-HYBRAR-and-TU-Polymer-20260216_EN.pdf\">Kuraray_Price Increase of SEPTON HYBRAR and TU-Polymer 20260216_EN<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/Kuraray_Price-Increase-of-SEPTON-HYBRAR-and-TU-Polymer-20260216_EN.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9356fce6-e7c7-44a9-af04-9c37e47d090a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elastomers Business Unit will raise the transaction prices of following Elastomer products in all regions effective March 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-march-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-1519","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\/1519","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=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1521"}],"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=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}