On December 15th, Kraton Corportation releases the plan of increasing the price of its certain materials from January 1st, 2017, which will raise the price for its polystyrene butadiene styrene (SBS) for Europe, Middle East and Africa region to €200/t. Besides, it increases the price of its hydrogenated styrenic block copolymers (HSBC) around the globe to €240/t.