Mar 31, 2011. /Lesprom Network/. Clariant’s Business Unit Paper announces price increases across its product portfolio. The adjustments, which take immediate effect, are necessary to recover significant on-going cost inflation in raw materials, labor, energy and transportation. Price increases of 8% will affect all product groups and as contracts allow, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network. Selected individual products will experience higher increases due to the severe impact of their particular raw material cost increase, the company said. Clariant's Paper Specialties Business Unit provides expertise in the management of whiteness, coloration, special coatings and strength for all kind of papers.