ICIS Innovation Awards 2023 winners celebrated

19-Oct-2023 - Arkema has won the ICIS Innovation Awards 2023 for its innovative initiative to recycle monomaterial shoes in collaboration with footwear group ON. Judges from BASF, Barentz, NNFCC, Arkema, CEFIC and ICIS looked through over 54 individual entries for the award categories. The categories and ...

Microscopic crop protection

Max Planck spin-off aims to further develop research into microtechnology-based plant protection products

18-Mar-2021 - Every year, fungal diseases of grapevines cause a loss of one billion euros. Conventional plant protection agents are largely powerless in combating them. A planned spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) is now to further develop research into sustainable, ...

LANXESS acquires biocides specialist

Further consolidation in the area of consumer protection

18-Jan-2021 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is expanding its position as one of the world's leading manufacturers of biocides and antimicrobials by acquiring French company INTACE SAS. The Paris-based biocide company is a manufacturer of specialty fungicides for the packaging industry. LANXESS and the ...

LANXESS completes acquisition of Brazilian biocide manufacturer IPEL

05-Feb-2020 - LANXESS completed the acquisition of Itibanyl Produtos Especiais Ltda. (IPEL). The competent anti-trust authorities approved the transaction beginning of January. IPEL with headquarters in Jarinu, São Paulo, is one of Brazil’s leading biocide manufacturers and generated sales in the lower ...

Lonza Acquires Chemical Company Zelam Based in New Zealand

05-Aug-2015 - Lonza announced that it has acquired Zelam, a research-focused chemical company based in New Zealand, which develops and manufactures products for crop protection, specializing in fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, foliar nutrients and additives. Zelam also develops and manufactures products ...

New Ingredients Prove Game-changing in Pesticide Markets in North America and Europe

Suppliers must communicate the efficacy of biopesticides to bring in more business opportunities, finds Frost & Sullivan

10-Mar-2015 - Escalating demand for food from a burgeoning world population is accelerating the development of the pesticides market in North America and Western Europe. The shift to newer, more expensive chemistries that offer better solutions for pest-resistance further spurs market revenues.New analysis ...

Growth for plants and economy: Ceresana analyzes the global market for crop protection products

29-May-2012 - Crop protection products protect plants from damaging influences such as weeds, diseases or insects. The strong dynamics in the crop protection market was occasion for the most extensive global market analysis, the results of which are now available. Market research institute Ceresana Research ...

Dow AgroSciences Divests European Dithane Business to Indofil

08-Mar-2012 - Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, has divested its European Dithane® fungicide business to Indofil Industries Ltd. of Mumbai, India. The agreement includes only Dithane® products sold in Europe and does not include other parts of the Dow AgroSciences’ ...

Bayer CropScience divests Rovral and Sportak fungicides to FMC

09-Dec-2011 - Bayer CropScience announced that it has divested certain fungicides to FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, USA. The transaction includes Rovral® (active ingredient: iprodione) and Sportak® (active ingredient: prochloraz) brand families for worldwide agricultural uses outside Europe. Financial terms of ...

After a good third quarter: Bayer confirms Group outlook

Net income more than doubled to EUR 642 million (plus 125.3 percent)

01-Nov-2011 - The Bayer Group achieved further sales growth and significantly increased earnings in the third quarter of 2011. “It was a good quarter for Bayer,” Management Board Chairman Dr. Marijn Dekkers said Thursday at the presentation of the interim report. He described the continuing growth momentum in ...