Midland, Mich. — Dow Building Solutions announced that due to continuing and unprecedented increases in energy, feedstocks, raw materials, and transportation costs, it would increase prices in the U.S. and Canada by up to an additional 10 percent for all product lines.

The price increases are effective July 1, 2008, for all orders shipped on or after July 1 for the following products: STYROFOAM Extruded Polystyrene Insulations, Dow Polyisocyanurate Insulations, Dow High Performance Underlayment & Protection Board (Fanfold), WEATHERMATE Brand Housewraps, STYROFOAM Spray Polyurethane Insulations, GREAT STUFF, GREAT STUFF PRO, ENERFOAM, INSTATIK, and TILE-BOND, FROTH-PAK Insulation & Sealants, STYROFOAM Sill Seal, and WEATHERMATE Construction Tape, Straight, Flexible & Sill Pan Flashings. The price increases are effective July 15 for all orders shipped on or after July 15 for the following products: STYROFOAM Panel Core Products, STYROFOAM Oncology Board Products, STYROFOAM Surf Board Products, and TRYMER Polyisocyanurate Pipe Insulations. For more information, visit www.building.dow.com/styrofoam .

In Pittsburgh, PPG Industries, Inc announced that its architectural coatings business unit would execute another round of price increases as a result of rapidly accelerating raw material and energy costs. The increases will be implemented during the third quarter of 2008 across all distribution channels.

“The persistent raw material and energy cost increases that we continue to face are impacting every aspect of our business,” said Scott Sinetar, Vice President, PPG Architectural Coatings. “We have been extremely aggressive in reducing controllable, internal costs, but these measures cannot sufficiently offset the continuing market-driven inflationary pressures.”

PPG brands include Pittsburgh Paints, Porter Paints, Olympic Paints and Stains, and PPG. Visit www.ppg.com for more information.