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Yara Doubles UK Capacity for Crop Protection Products

25.05.2023 -

Norway’s Yara has announced plans to build a new plant for specialty crop protection products and biostimulants at an existing site in York, UK.

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DuPont and Sumitomo in Seed Technology Pact

07.12.2017 - DuPont, a subsidiary of newly merged DowDuPont, is collaborating with Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical to accelerate the development, registration and commercialization of seed-applied...

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Nufarm Buys Ag Assets from Adama and Syngenta

25.10.2017 - Australian farm chemicals producer Nufarm has agreed to pay a total of $540 million to acquire a suite of crop protection products, known as the Century Portfolio, from ChemChina...

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Syngenta Eyes Seeds Assets, ChemChina may Float

29.06.2017 - To build up its seeds business, Swiss agrochemicals major, recently acquired by ChemChina, is eager to pick up some of the assets German rival Bayer will be forced to divest in...

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Sumitomo and BASF to develop new Fungicide

16.06.2017 - Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical and Germany’s BASF have joined forces to develop a novel fungicidal compound discovered by the Japanese partner and said to demonstrate “high efficacy” in...

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Syngenta-ChemChina Deal Clears US and EU

06.04.2017 - Within two days, one of the three mega mergers influencing in major part the agrochemicals sector moved two steps closer to becoming reality. On Apr. 4-5, the US Federal Trade...

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DuPont Informs Ag Employees on Sell-offs

30.03.2017 - DuPont has begun talks with employees of agrochemicals facilities it plans to divest in exchange for EU approval of its $130 million merger with Dow Chemical. According to US...

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BASF Inaugurates Texas Dicamba Plant

23.03.2017 - BASF has inaugurated its new $270 million world-scale production complex for dicamba, the active ingredient in its Engenia herbicide, at its Beaumont, Texas, site. The German group...