Silicone Price Increase!
- Posted by Direct Sealants in Sealants
- July 17, 2018
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Sadly, by this time, you must have been informed about the continuous price increases to all silica-based building products.
With these price increases drastically effecting all trades that deal with materials that hold some percentage of silicone, it has made the market extremely unstable and caused worry across most contractor’s due increases continuing for the foreseeable future.
Most manufactures vary in their reasons for implementing these increases, however from our research none seem to come to a mutually ground on a main reason for.
With limited information given to trades that work with silicone-based products. We have grafted and dug, to explore all known reasons for these increases of up to 135.9% since 2017
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