Press Release

Kraton Polymers Announces European SBS Price Increase

HOUSTON, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Kraton Polymers LLC (together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries, “Kraton”), a leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers or “SBCs,” announces a price increase in Europe, Africa and the Middle East of Euro 200/MT for all Kraton SBS polymers and compounds for the Adhesives, Sealants, Coatings, and Advanced Materials markets.

Subject to the terms of any applicable contracts, these price increases will take effect April 1, 2012.

About Kraton Corporation

Kraton Corporation is a leading global producer of specialty polymers and high-value performance products derived from renewable resources. Kraton’s polymers are used in a wide range of applications, including adhesives, coatings, consumer and personal care products, sealants, and lubricants, and medical, packaging, automotive, paving, and roofing products. As the largest global provider in the pine chemicals industry, the company’s pine-based specialty products are sold into adhesive, road and construction, and tire markets, and it produces and sells a broad range of performance chemicals into markets that include fuel additives, oilfield chemicals, coatings, metalworking fluids and lubricants, inks, and mining. Kraton offers its products to a diverse customer base in over 70 countries worldwide.

*Kraton, the Kraton logo, and design are all trademarks of Kraton Corporation, or its subsidiaries or affiliates, in one or more, but not all countries.

SOURCE: Kraton Corporation

Media Contact: newsroom@kraton.com

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