Hot Melt Adhesive Price Hikes 20%: Hygiene Product Costs Under Pressure, Advise Early Ordering
Recently, Henkel, a world-leading adhesive supplier, issued a price adjustment notice to its customers, announcing that it will uniformly increase the price of all supplied products by 20% starting from March 17, 2026. This move has attracted widespread attention in the industry, especially having a profound impact on hygiene product manufacturers that use hot melt adhesive as a key raw material, such as sanitary napkin and diaper producers.
Behind the price adjustment, geopolitical conflicts are the core driver. The notice pointed out that the recent intensification of geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East has led to a continuous rise in international crude oil prices. As crude oil is the core upstream raw material for hot melt adhesive production, this has directly pushed up the production cost of adhesives. Although Henkel has made positive arrangements in terms of supply chain resilience, diversified procurement channels and localized production, it is still difficult to fully absorb the current surging cost pressure, and ultimately has to pass on part of the pressure through price adjustments.
For hygiene product production, hot melt adhesive is an indispensable "invisible support". In the production process of products such as adult diapers, adult pull-up pants, disposable under pads,sanitary napkins, period pants, and pet pads, hot melt adhesive is widely used in key links such as structural bonding.
