Effective April 2010, the price increase will be 7-10% above Q1 pricing for non-contract customers or as existing contracts allow. Vertellus Specialties will also make similar increases for the Vitamin B3 intermediates that it sells effective immediately. This increase will partially offset increases in raw materials, transportation, and energy cost increases.

Vertellus is a specialty chemicals company focused on the manufacture of ingredients used in pharmaceuticals, personal care, nutrition, and agriculture markets. Vertellus is the world’s largest producer of pyridine and picolines, specialty pyridine derivatives, DEET, castor oil derivatives and systems, and citrate polymer additives and systems, and the world’s second largest producer of Vitamin B-3. Vertellus benefits from a technically advanced global manufacturing base, has approximately 700 employees worldwide, and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, visit www.vertellus.com.