Monday, February 16, 2009

Prices and the New Year

Sorry that it's been so long since our last post on the blog. Things have been hopping since coming back from the New Year. One of the changes with the new year is always pricing.

Fear not, though, 90% of all our price adjustments have now taken place and are reflected online. 3M materials in particular have gone up 3 times since we last updated our pricing on them, so you know we hold off our increases as long as possible for you. In fact, 3M just increased their pricing again on February 15th by another 3.9%, but you won't see that reflected in our pricing to you. We raised our prices on 3M materials back at the beginning of the year and that's where they'll stay for at least the next 6 months (possibly more).

We should have a new catalog ready for you by the first of March, so if you would like a paper copy of our catalog, just drop us an email or give us a ring and we'll get that out for you.

We also had some good news from the folks over at HXTAL. They have a new production schedule in place and we should start receiving regular shipments of HXTAL NYL-1 by mid March. No more adhesive droughts in the near future. That's great news on the HXTAL front and we'll still keep our low prices on HXTAL for you for the rest of the year too!
In other adhesive news, XTR pricing will be having an increase around the first of March to a roughly 20% increase due to the costs of materials. We'll hold the price for the next week or two, but be aware of that shift.

We'll have more to post soon, so keep a lookout here.