Due to continued increases in the costs of key raw materials such as textiles and rubber compounds, Sun Chemical’s Rycoline Group will raise prices in North America by 5 percent on most blanket lines, effective Jan. 1, 2012. The blanket product lines affected by the price increase include: SunBeam, SunBeam N, SunBeam 116, SunBeam 122, SunDot, SunSpot, SunDual and SunLazer. “We’ve seen especially high demand in cotton in 2011 because of the year’s poor harvest,” said Dennis Sweet, vice pres...