July 9, 2009

Tilo Lindner
Inorganic Materials
Marketing Polymer & Ink Solutions
Phone	+49 69 218-3456
Fax	+49 69 218-63456
tilo.lindner@evonik.com
Price Increase for Carbon Black Pigments 

The Inorganic Materials Business Unit of Evonik Industries, Essen, is increasing prices for carbon black pigments by up to 9 percent depending on the product. The price increase will be effective for all deliveries on or after August 1, 2009. Evonik is the world's second largest producer of carbon black pigments (furnace carbon black, lamp black, and gas black). 

About Evonik
Evonik Industries is the creative industrial group from Germany which operates in three business areas: Chemicals, Energy and Real Estate. Evonik is a global leader in specialty chemicals, an expert in power generation from hard coal and renewable energies, and one of the largest private residential real estate companies in Germany. Our strengths are creativity, specialization, continuous self-renewal, and reliability. Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world. In its fiscal year 2008 about 41,000 employees generated sales of about €15.9 billion and an operating profit (EBITDA) of about €2.2 billion. 
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Evonik Degussa GmbH
Weißfrauenstraße 9
60287 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Phone 	+49 69 218-01
Fax 	+49 69 218-3118
www.evonik.com

Supervisory Board
Dr. Klaus Engel, Chairman
Board of Management
Patrik Wohlhauser, Chairman
Ralf Blauth, Dr. Thomas Haeberle

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